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Offline 3D

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Flush Mount Glass
« on: June 10, 2015 - 02:05:15 PM »
Anyone done this to there E body????
I'm thinking of flush mounting my front and rear windshields.




Offline drewcrane

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Re: Flush Mount Glass
« Reply #1 on: June 10, 2015 - 02:18:32 PM »
I did try it, the trim is to hard to make everything work, you have to use some of  the factory trim on the lower part of the windshield , and in the rear I had to cut the trim on the corners, however a glass guy said ha has some trim that will bend on a 90 degree corner, but I still have to deal the the trim on the front, so any better ideas ,let me have em :2thumbs:

I will most likely remove all this and the glass, put the factory clips in and use the factory trim,we all know it will work :dunno:

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Re: Flush Mount Glass
« Reply #2 on: June 10, 2015 - 04:51:26 PM »
We did this on a 68 Mustang fastback recently, After I test fitment with the glass on my 71 Cuda ,I found that a 3/8 square butyl tape sets the AMD glass close to level and a 3/4 wide rubber T molding extrusion , I am going to use a heat gun to carefully bend the lower corners of the rubber t molding.to conform to the lower windshield... I will set the T-molding in with some super fast urethane.
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Offline drewcrane

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Re: Flush Mount Glass
« Reply #3 on: June 10, 2015 - 05:27:57 PM »
We did this on a 68 Mustang fastback recently, After I test fitment with the glass on my 71 Cuda ,I found that a 3/8 square butyl tape sets the AMD glass close to level and a 3/4 wide rubber T molding extrusion , I am going to use a heat gun to carefully bend the lower corners of the rubber t molding.to conform to the lower windshield... I will set the T-molding in with some super fast urethane.

I used a heat gun and it worked but the biggest issues was after the corners, it would try to get wavy, so I spent some time before it set to work out all the waves , but the corners were the main issue :clueless:

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Re: Flush Mount Glass
« Reply #4 on: June 10, 2015 - 05:53:24 PM »
We did this on my brother-in-law's 71 Pro street "KILLER CUDA" way back in 1993....
We metal fabbed a smaller opening for the glass and finished the lower windshield area the same. The "T" rubber we used at that time was from a Chrysler Caravan I believe..
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Re: Flush Mount Glass
« Reply #5 on: June 10, 2015 - 05:58:55 PM »
We did this on my brother-in-law's 71 Pro street "KILLER CUDA" way back in 1993....
We metal fabbed a smaller opening for the glass and finished the lower windshield area the same. The "T" rubber we used at that time was from a Chrysler Caravan I believe..

Yea mine is the "T" rubber from a Dakota ,I need to do more research then :2thumbs: