Installation Of Windshield Glass - Plymouth Pl4S Service Manual

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PLYMOUTH SERVICE MANUAL
!-Windshield gloss 2-Rubber seal
3-Body edge around windshield
Figure 41-Removing Windshield Glass-Lilting
Rubber Seal Around Windshield
(!938-39 Models)
Figure 42-Removing Wir1dshield Glass-
Pressing Windshield in alter Seal has
been Lifted (I 938-39 Models)
Figure 43-lnstalling Windshield Glass-Inserting
Glass in Rubber Molding (1940-42 Models)
23. REMOVAL OF WINlDSHIELD
GLASS.
1938-39--cont'd.
( 8). Lift the rubber molding away from
body all the way around windshield open-
ing (fig.41).
( 9) Press against the glass to push it
and the rubber molding through the opening
in body (fig. 42) and remove the assembly.
( 1 0)
Roll the rubber off glass.
1936-.'Jl-Open the windshield as far as
it will go with the panel crank and remove
the screws which hold the hinge to wind-
shield and crank mechanism. Remove the
screws at joints of windshield glass frame
and pull the channel apart at these tele-
scoped joints. Pull the channel frame off
glass.
24. INSTALLATION OF WINDSHIELD
GLASS.
1940-42
( 1) Coat the edges of glass with a good
grade of soft soap, such as linseed oil soap or
its equivalent, containing no free alkali. Do
not use oil or grease.
( 2 ) Insert the glass in the bottom of
the rubber molding and slide it to within
about 4 inches of the center bar (fig. 43).
( 3 ) Hook the rubber molding over
glass at top inside comer and slide the glass
toward the center strip, at the same time
keeping the rubber molding on the bottom
of the glass.
( 4) Continue working the rubber
molding over the top of the glass and at the
same time slide the glass toward the center
bar (fig. 44 ).
( 5 ) Using a wood wedge, work the
rubber molding over the glass at upper out-
side corner (fig. 45).
(6) Work the glass into the groove of
the rubber molding at the center strip.