window installation

[georgeso2]

New to the ford barn and new to the model a. I purchased a 1929 tudor sedan in November of 13. I've been working on it every day since then. I'm now on the body and I need to know how to set windows in the new regulator tracks. I have new safety glass and new rubber glass sets. It looks like the track needs to be squeezed shut on the glass. But how without breaking the glass.

[Tom Wesenberg]

Have you removed the plate on the very tops of the doors?
I have a 29 Tudor and had to heat the plate screws a couple times before I could finally get the screws to move.

[bobv]

You need to squeeze the channel narrower before installing the glass and/or use thicker glass bedding. The glass should install into channel snugly.

[Mitch//pa]

i have used windshield setting urethane in a caulk tube.

also 3m sells a 2 part epoxy style channel bonder but you need a special dual piston gun to apply it unless you cut open the tube and manually mix the two together
the later is your best bet

[Tom Wesenberg]

The only ones I installed were on a 1930 truck.
I bought new tracks and setting material from Little Dearborn in Mpls.
The tracks tapped onto the glass with the help of a rubber mallet with no problem, and the fit was perfect.

[georgeso2]

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I do have the glasses out. Instead of using the old tracks since they were in bad shape I got new ones. The new ones are open to wide and I didn't want to break the new glass. Got the windshield in with bar clamps and WD 40. Nervous the hole time. Thanks for the responces its great to have someone to ask.

[georgeso2]

Thanks for the help on the windows. Its great to have someone to ask.

[jimvette59]

Check the thickness of the glass. I found some glass is not 1/4 and was told to use two pieces of bedding in the original channel. Go figure.

[bikemaniac]

I just finished that job today. First I used my vice to compress the steel profile (=track) - there was waaaaaaaay too much play when only one layer of bedding was wrapped around the end of the glass. I thought I got it right but then ...

I oiled the bedding as prescribed, but what happened was, while pressing the profile onto the glass, it was SO tight that it automatically cut off one half of the bedding with the result that that half was just squeezed out in front. Thus the profile acted as a knife on one side. Making a test I realized that the profile was solid on the glass, but I did not like the result.

With a flathead screw driver with the correct width I widened the profile again by making twists every inch. Now, when installing the profile it slipped on maybe a little too easy - afterwards I could easily pull the profile up again - due to the oil.

I put the window assembly away for a while. Coming back later I realized that the bedding has swelled and now it was locked as it should.

PS: I only put oil on one side of the bedding - the side in contact with the profile. First I tried putting oil on both sides to increase the swelling effect - but that was just a oily mess everywhere.

Furthermore: Because I have the economy profiles=tracks, they did not fit the window regulator. With an angle grinder I had to trim off 1/4 inch lengthwise to fit the small wheel.

Lucas