If you see rust there- it will get worse.

I removed had the window removed last spring, and it is a job that can be
done at home.

What you want to do it to go to a Speedy Autoglass, or whatever they call it
where you live - and buy something called a "fiberstick". It's similar to a
tongue depressor - but made for cars!

Anyhow, then you do this:

Spray window cleaner or soapy water all around the interior-inside of the
rubber window seal.

The cleaner is to act as a lubricant for the fiber-stick, which you will run
all around the inside perimeter - to break the bond between the rubber seal
and the glass.

Ok - you've broken the seal, good!

Next, prepare to break your plastic window trim as you remove it. Mine broke
so easily, even SuperVanagonMan would have done it.

Next, run the fiber-stick under the glass, to lift the glass over the
rubber - be careful!!!!!!

Then use more cleaner, and run the stick all around the rubber, so as to pry
the glass from the seal. Sort of like using tire irons to remove a clincher
bicycle tire from the wheel rim.

Or - you could do this:

Goto your autoglass store, offer them $20 to R&R your window - and be done
with it.

Happy Thanksgiving to all the Cannucks too! (In my house, we call it the
"Turkey Holocaust"!)

Hope this helps a bit!

Marshall Ruskin
84 Westy
Winnipeg, Canada

>I see the start of rust forming under my rear window seal (grrrrr....).
>Is it a straightforward task to pop out the rear window to clean up this
>rust (and while it's out, take my window to the tint shop).  What all is
>invoved?  Removing the (what was once) chrome window trim and carefully
>pyring the seal away, or is that gonna leave me with a broken window?  I
>would also like to replace the chrome window trim as per the discussion
>a couple of months ago.  The thread on POR-15 has got me thinking about
>this plan (stupid now that it's winter here - never seem to get around
>to these things in the summer).
>
>Happy Thanksgiving to the Canucks!
>
>Cheers!
>Keith Adams
>Calgary, Alberta, Canada
>1986 Vanagon GL Westfalia "Roxy"
>