> > ++> Guys, I'm having a hard time installing the plastic-chrome
> > ++> thingy that goes around the windshield rubber of a
> > ++> Spit 1500. Anyone have any ideas? I have tried sliding the
> >
> > Pain, trauma, sorrow, unhappiness... all words which come to mind
> > when I think about putting that chrome trim on. I'm sure there is an easy
> > way (they did it at the factory after all), but I don't know it. I found
> The trick is as follows: put the rubber around the window, seating the
> window in the inner groove of the rubber. Then take a stout slippery
> string like synthetic mason's twine and tie it in a loop a couple of feet
> larger than the perimeter of the window opening. Push the string in the
> outer groove in the rubber that is intended to fit over the body sheet
> metal lip and bring the excess string out of the groove at one point.
> Have an assistant(s) outside push the window and rubber against the opening,
> with the excess string hanging inside the car. If you pull on the string
> loop, pulling it between the rubber and the body flange, the string will
> pull the inner lip of the rubber over the flange and quick as a wink
> (yeah, right) your window is in. Depending on how the trim is installed,
> something like this might work to put the trim on. Alternatively, it
> might make window installation easy enough that the thought of removing
> the window to install the trim would be tolerable.
This is the method I used on my TR4A... or I should say "we" since I
had my wife help me with the task. After positioning the windscreen
she stood on the inner-fenders astride the engine compartment bearing
most of her weight against the windscreen... she was 7-months pregnant
at the time and did not think that the task was at all very dignified.
She later commented though that she thought it was a rather appropriate
exercise in preparation for childbirth.
-Steve-
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