Apr 2007

First a comment on insterting the stainless.  After we got the rubber on the
glass, I taped the outdoor side inside edge of the rubber to the glass
almost all the way around.  This kept the rubber from falling off the glass
when we snaped in the trim.  My wife and I did the front and it was like
pouring piss out of a boot with instructions on the heal.   I had another
friend come to help with the back. As instructed in this group somewhere, we
did not use any goop or lubricants.  The first time we tried to install the
rear window we had the lower edge started real good but the front of the
glass was up too high, something like in figure 48 in my shop manual.  We
didn't do much banging at the start.  It was a bitch to get in.  We spent
about an hour and a half, and we got one side in but inspite of increased
banging, lost the other side.

We popped the glass out and studied the book again and concluded we did
almost everything right except for the tie and the white coats.

The second time I sprayed some scotch guard on a rag and just wiped a little
on the bottom edge of the frame before we started.  We placed the window in
the frame so that it was bearing the same all around with the bottom edge
not tucked in at all.  We started roping on the bottom and my friend kept
banging on the glass with his hand and as the bottom slipped in the rest of
the glass just stayed neatly in the frame waiting to be roped in.  He just
kept banging on the glass as I slowly and evenly pulled the string on both
sides and rolled out the gasket.  It just happened and it looks good.

I think the tie was a big part of our success.
Bill


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I did it the easy way, I hired a glass guy to install the rear window on my 
hawk. But I did play the role of helping him. Best $50 I ever spent.  He 
used foamy window cleaner to lube the gasket. Then he just put the bottom of 
the gasket on the metal flange and pulled the string rolling it onto the 
flange all the way around ending in the middle of the top. It just went in 
as nice as if it were meant to be there.
MikeW
www.packardhawk.co