[Roadsters] Windscreen help.

[Gary and Cindy Ault]

Peeter,

As to polishing, I did my stainless with Mother's.  Worked great with the 
right wheel from Eastwood.  Also used it on the aluminum door sill trim.

Gary
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "peter harrison" <granvillecomputing at hotmail.com>
To: <dato1500 at hotmail.com>; "datsun" <datsun-roadsters at autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 10:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Roadsters] Windscreen help.


> Peter
>
>
>
> Dean is right - the instructions work great if followed - that said it is 
> a
> pain. Kevin D and I (well mostly Kevin) put mine in earlier this year.
>
>
>
> The trick is a) to get all the molding in - requires a lot of soapy water 
> and
> careful sliding of the moulding into the rubber grooves, and then the 
> tricky
> bit is to get the 'back' of the moulding over the 'lip' of the windshield.
>
>
>
> We found that the waxy string (it seems to have no rough edges that might 
> tear
> the rubber) that Home Depot offers for free to tie stuff to your car 
> worked
> beautifuuly. Wrap it around (inside the inner groove) with plenty to spare 
> so
> that you have two or so feet overlap at each end (they cross over) and 
> then
> gently pull the rubber over onto the lip. The hardest part was lining up 
> the
> moulding the 'insertion' was easy. And Dean's rubber correctly gives you 
> the
> 'sharp' corners as opposed to the rounded ones. It seems to be better as a 
> two
> person job (one to pull the string, the other to push (gently) the 
> windshield,
> though others may have done it solo.
>
>
>
> When I decided to remove mine for painting, I found that the PO's 
> 'experts'
> had used so much rubber 'glue' that you could have made a spare tire from 
> it
> (thus I had to trash it, to Dean's gain <G>) . Correctly installed, it can 
> be
> removed and replaced with the same effort as before.
>
>
>
> BTW - since you may have to do it again, you might as well spend some time
> doing some serious polishing of the moulding - stainless comes up 
> beautifully
> when polished with fine grits (2000+).
>
>
>
> HTH
>
>
>
> Peter (eliza - toad san)
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