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[R32Egor]

Hi all,

 

Has anybody had experience in installing fixed quarter windows?

 

My question is -

 

rubber to frame first and then window install in rubber? or

Rubber on window and the install rubber on frame?

 

I presume the first way but does anybody have an advice? 

 

[crossthread]

The second way.

Rubber on glass, string around rubber lip, soapy water on rubber, then get a faithful assistant to push the glass and rubber into the aperture while you pull the string from the inside.

Pull the string towards the centre of the glass, don't pull horizontally into the centre of the car.

Hope this helps, it's a lot easier to do than it is to explain.

[Ethel]

Always had opening windows, but I remembered string was involved!

 

Common sense suggests it would be best to get the, pointiest, bottom rear corner in first, so have the end of the string there & work along the bottom edge once enough of the corner is in ??? 

[stuart bowes]

interested in more detail about the pulling towards centre of window instead of horizontally inwards to the car..

 

is that to prevent damage to the rubber or something, or just pulls out easier that way

[Ethel]

I guess it just means turning over more of the lip to fall inside the edge of the body panel. Looking end on, lifting it closer to 12 o'clock than 3 or 9 o'clock - where it'd just be level with the top of the body. 

[crossthread]

Pulling the string horizontally into the car means you are pulling the rubber lip into the flange.

Pull into the centre of the glass and you lift the rubber over the flange.

It doesn't really matter where you start and finish, I've always started at the top and worked around both ways to finish at the bottom rear corner.

 

One last thing, don't use thick,  hairy type string . Paracord works really well, and overlap the start and finish by about 6 inches.

 

 

 

See Ethels' comment above.

Edited by crossthread, Today, 01:49 PM.

[R32Egor]

Ok where should the seal join be? Top or bottom of the window?

[johnR]

Logically at the bottom so that any water getting into the seal can run out of the join