Hey all, first the disclaimer
We all gotta deal with the way the car is when we got it.

There.
Now, this '75 was changed to a removable rear window complete with stock latches and aftermarket rear shower. I'm given to understand the last stock removable rear window was on the '72s. I like the removable rear window but am remodeling and have decided to delete the aftermarket rear shower.

The nit who changed this over back in the mists of time apparently left the stock NON removable W/S in place..... thus the convenient rear shower. I got the '72 W/S yesterday and am fixing to install it today or tomorrow. I'm also taking this rear window and getting the frame pulled from it and put back on with somewhat less than 3 decade old mastic or whatever they seal the window frame to the glass with.

Hopefully.... the W/S will fit this model. Hopefully the glass fits the later year model fine. I take a shower before going to work. It is not in my plans to take another on the way to work.

So, I know some of ya have modded this in. What are your experiences? Nice ventilation or be afraid, be very afraid?

 

wtf is this "shower" you speak of?

 

If something is leaking your going to get A shower?His re-movable rear window is my guess!!!!!!

 

This is the part that confused me. I read "W/S" as "windscreen" and not "weatherstripping" for some reason. Plus I try to avoid rain with my car so I didn't think about leaks.

I would think that the conversion would work fine with the correct weatherstripping. I love the removable window. I have it out most of the time. It cuts down on wind turbulence when both windows are open.

 

It's common and not too hard to do in a few hours. Make sure you have the proper glass framed with aluminum and the alignment pins screwed to the bottom of the window frame.

Assuming the pin guides and latches are mounted properly, which they may not be, all you have to do is start slow.

Using the new gasket and some 3M weather strip black adhesive, start at the bottom. Lay a bead down in the middle of the window sill about a foot long, centered. Then, press the gasket to the sill where the adhesive is and press until it's sticking on it's own.

From there, do the part to one side of it to the bottom corner, pressing the gasket until it stays on it's own. Then do the other side until the entire bottom edge is seals to the window sill. Then, following the slow little bit at a time procedure, follow up around each side a little at a time so each portion sticks by itself.

The top of the gasket will probably be too long, as they all seem to be. Cut the gasket in the middle of what would be the top of the gasket. This way, when you get all the way around from both sides you have two loose ends that meet in the top middle. Trim both evenly so they meet and sit flush with one another. You'll probably end up cutting about an inch total out of the top span and it'll seat just fine.

Then, put the window and frame back in and latch it tight letting it hold the gasket tight for a few days. Then, take the window out and make sure you gasket is in good shape and you can take the car with the window in to a car wash and test the gasket.

 

I wish the nit wit that did my rear window would have asked on the forum. The only thing I can recomend is if cut hole's in the bottom of the seal for the windows the pins lock into, start small. My are too big and the window won't seal at the bottom.

 

Yeah, it's one of those aftermarket rear showers, at least when it's raining.

Thanks for the info. Heh, 20% chance of rain tonight. Hope I can get it nailed down before then. I'm sure I'll have to adjust the pins and latches. I had snugged them up really tight trying to minimize my shower's gpm, as per national water use standards

Took the window to a glass shop and tried to get the guy to reseal the glass in the aluminum frame. Kept getting excuses;
It might be epoxy at the top and we can't get it out.
It's aluminum, we can't heat it up.
The frame might bend.
It's tempered glass.
You might lose the frame and destroy the window.
What we use will breakdown in UV light.
He seemed real nervous and kept trying to give me the window back like it was going to blow up in his hands.
Of course there I was 6'2", barefoot, mustache hanging a couple inches under my chin shading into a week of beard. I know I'm no prize but...

Maybe I oughta start shaving before I get outta the house.....
And now..... this crap IS a real pain to chip outta the aluminum channel.....
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And yes Hotrod, it's amazing how the back window out cuts the turbulence

 

oh crap, thunder!