At 11:09 AM 3/30/2009, Stephen Grisanti wrote:
>http://picasaweb.google.com/bike2vcu/_makeover?authkey=Gv1sRgCInpgJaQ-OqHLw#

Looks good!

>The window trim was less trouble but more tedious.  I've heard
>conflicting reports that it's okay to remove this stuff and,
>alternately, that if you do so the removal may promote water leaks
>around the window openings.  Less worrisome just to paint it

The issue that I remember being debated at length had not to do with
leaks but with the resistance of the window/windshield to being
popped out entirely.  The don't-do-it school I thought had a
convincing case, including a try-it-yourself demonstration, but the
it's-fine-don't-bother-me school remained unconvinced.  Of course the
demonstration if successful would have resulted in your windshield
jumping out onto the driveway, so perhaps it's
understandable.  Anyway all the crash-test videos are filled with
flying windshields, so what the hey.

Which reminds me, it's long past time we had a big tussle over
whether the shear-head bolts on the steering column are intended for
theft-resistance or in some mysterious magical way influence the
crash-collapse characteristics of the column.

<weg>
D

  --
David Beierl - Providence RI USA -- http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/
'89 Po' White Star "Scamp"