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Subject:Re: Rear Windshield Installation?
Date:Tue, 19 Mar 2002 12:50:12 EST

In a message dated 3/19/02 12:00:49 PM Eastern Standard Time,
Doss88Wkndr@AOL.COM writes:

> I removed my back windscreen to take care of that pesky under gasket rust.
> When I removed it, I peeled out the plastic spline, and worked the gasket
> out
> from the top down, pushing the window out, and pulling the gasket inside.
> It
> was a real chore.  I know I'm going to have a time getting it back in.  I
> have (on other vehicles) used a cord to pull the lip of the gasket around
> the
> glass.  I'm wondering, do you install the gasket -and- the spline -then- the
> glass?  Is it best done from the inside -or- the outside?  Is it best to
> start at the top -or - the bottom?
>
>

forget the plastic chrome stuff and just use the rope method to get the seal
back in..  i have ripped all the fake chrome plastic strips out of my vanagon
with no leakage..   looks better without anyway..
chris