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Re: Replacing Top/Bottom Windscreen seals

To: Todd Bermudez <red_tr250@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Replacing Top/Bottom Windscreen seals
From: Barry Schwartz <v6spitfireguy@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 05:50:40 -0800
It does in fact come out.  Once all the bolts are removed, it can be tilted
forward and removed.  The lower post brackets/clamps must also be removed
(two bolts on each side way up under there) to allow the unit to tilt out
of the way.  I have done it many years ago when I restored my 1970 years
ago.  Not a fun job, but it can be done.
By the way, the doors are not really quite the same as Spitfire doors.
While they will fit except for the windows which would not be correct, the
GT6 doors have a small section welded inside them to accept the wing
assemblies (if you look down into where the window slides, near the front
you'll see it.  It would prevent you from putting a Spitfire window in).
While it can be cut out and used as a Spitfire door it's much more
difficult to do the reverse -
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>The TR6 & Spitfire windscreen come all the way out
>with the big posts.  How do you get the windscreen
>frame out of the GT6?  I can see lifting up on the
>roof enough & sliding the new seal in from the front
>of the car...how is the winscreen attached on the
>bottom...i'm guessing it doesn't come all the way out
>like the TR & Spitfire?  Do you unbolt the top & maybe
>the bottom?  Then rock the thing backwards?
>
>You're right though, it does sound like a job, but the
>top seal is really nasty lookin'...dry rotted...will
>probably leak
>
>Thanks,
>
>Todd
>
>--- Barry Schwartz <v6spitfireguy@cox.net> wrote:
>
>> yes, the seal can be replaced, the windscreen frame
>> does in fact bolt in
>> from the top and bottom.  To reach the bolts and
>> replace the seal at the
>> top the headliner must be out of the way though -
>> which really means that
>> you would be replacing it -as well as the windscreen
>> seal - you might get
>> away with just removing the windscreen and seal,
>> then peeling back the
>> headliner at the front - bottom is the same, that is
>> it bolts in, but the
>> frame will basically have to be removed, so its a
>> job to replace both -
>> BTDT don't want to so it again any time soon :-)
>> ********************************
>> >How does one replace these seals?  I see part
>> numbers
>> >for them, but can't fathom how they're replaced.  I
>> >did read somewhere that the top bolts down to the
>> >windscreen.  Can I just lift up & slide the top
>> seal
>> >in?  What about the bottom?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Barry Schwartz (San Diego)
>> 
>> 
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