Back window removal
Race Director
Joined: Dec 1999
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It's a pita and if the window breaks.... $$$$$ remove the outer trim and the trim on the inside, remove those clips that hold the trim (they work like an anchor, the little pins that go through the fiberglass are actually sort of hooks and a solid little pin is tapped in the center to secure them, tap out the little pin or just break them and buy new ones)./..cut awaya s much of the adhesive as you can and then use a steel wire (preferrable the squared stuff they use in the window replacement business) and carefully (w/ a helper) saw your way aroudn the glass, start at the bottom and work the 2 sides then around to the top.
Melting Slicks
Joined: Dec 2000
Posts: 2,635
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From: Union Ontario
I pull ed mine, wasn't too bad. I didn't bother removing the clips.
I put back in last night and will give you a piece of advice. There is a piece of foam weatherstrip around the window. I t is used as a urethane dam as well as setting the height of the window. Make sure yours looks like the one in the AIM as mine was toast from when I removed it and it took me a few minutes to set the height of the window after clipping the trim in. It would have been much easier to replace that piece of weatherstrip so I could set it and forget it.
The glass is fairly strong I banged mine a few times while it was off and no damage to it occured.
I put back in last night and will give you a piece of advice. There is a piece of foam weatherstrip around the window. I t is used as a urethane dam as well as setting the height of the window. Make sure yours looks like the one in the AIM as mine was toast from when I removed it and it took me a few minutes to set the height of the window after clipping the trim in. It would have been much easier to replace that piece of weatherstrip so I could set it and forget it.
The glass is fairly strong I banged mine a few times while it was off and no damage to it occured.
