[Tigers] The windshield job continues, finally

[Jay Laifman]

I had the exact same issues when I did this 20 years ago.  My windshield
from the factory was smashed down to the top of the car.  I've seen other
Sunbeams the same.  I don't have a solution.  I did end up stripping the
foam under the dash top all the way back to basically where the inside
rubber seal started.  Kind of helped, but not 100%.  I did have the
wedges.  I don't know if that helped or hurt.  And once it was all in, and
adjusted, I am not 100% convinced the back of the windshield lines up to
the front of the quarter window as good as it used to.

I also remember trimming the rubber seal somewhere so that it could
compress more.  I don't recall anymore where that was.

I think I spoke with Rick about it then.  I think he might have said to
just keep tightening.  Perhaps I didn't have enough courage to tighten it
enough.  I did not trust those studs to not break off the frame. I did try
to have someone push down on the top of the frame/windshield to squeeze the
rubber while I tightened the nuts.

I hope some if this helps.  I don't think I will pull it apart.  But I hope
someone has some good solutions.  Fortunately the Tiger is still original
and fits well.  Maybe I will take a closer look and see if I can see any
differences.

Jay

On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 5:02 PM Stu via Tigers <tigers at autox.team.net>
wrote:

>  With vacations, weekends away, concerts and whatnot finally not
> interfering, my son and I finally got back to my windshield job this
> weekend. Progress: The glass is in the frame. Not perfect, but the gasket
> is seated all around, though I have a suspicion that the VB glass could
> have been curved just bit more on one end.
>
> Then we tried to mount it to the car. Easy? Of course not. We just can't
> get the frame to seat down far enough to push the gasket all the way down
> to the body. The middle looks pretty close, but we haven't fully tightened
> the nut yet.  Driver’s side looks closer, but the passenger side is nowhere
> near close enough.  and it just doesn't seem to want to go down any
> further.  I have Rick's angle adjusters installed, but I can see they are
> not causing the problem.  And the adjusters are far enough off center in
> the tubes that i can't get the modified socket on.
>
> The gasket is currently sticking out beyond the end of the frame on both
> ends, I was going to cut it off even with the frame once installed. The
> tubular part of the gasket is all inside the frame like it should be. Is
> this gasket supposed to be trimmed BEFORE the ends of the frame, at least
> on the inside? I have the pieces that make up most of my old gasket, but
> not the ends, so I have nothing to go by.
>
> I did a lot of trimming of the foam inside the new dash pad so I don’t
> think the problem is there.
>
> I'm tempted to do some additional dash pad cutting, but before I do, are
> there any clues out there?
>
> Thanks
>
> Stu Brennan
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