'65 Coupe Windscreen Removal

[geordie]

Happy New Year guys………….

Been working these last few weeks, on and off, to get my ’65 Coupe bodywork stripped and ready for paint. The engine has been out for some time. I’ve stripped the engine bay of just about everything except the brake cylinder and the steering. All the exterior trim has been removed, lights, indicators, badges, bumpers, mirrors etc. The trunk has been cleaned out completely.

My current plan is not to remove the glass, except maybe the front windscreen as this leaks near the passenger side lower corner. My question is, how much aggravation is involved in removing and replacing the front windscreen of a ’65 Coupe and does anyone have a detailed write up please. Thanks.

 

[ozstang65]

..how much aggravation is involved in removing and replacing the front windscreen of a ’65 Coupe and does anyone have a detailed write up please. Thanks.

For the removal, you're going to waste the existing seal, the cost of a new one's reasonable anyway. Once you've got the trim out of the way (don't ask, I don't remember how I did mine, it was 6 years ago - there's a special tool I think) your best bet is to cut away the seal in front of the window. To do this, use a utlility knife, placed against the windscreen and cutting the seal away parallel to the windscreen. Once the front part of the seal is removed the windscreen should lift right out. Peel the rest of the seal away and spend some time cleaning up the left over crud.

Now, with the '65 you will have a lot of screw on trim clips to check/remove/replace. A lot of mine were old and broken or corroded, but you can get hold of replacements pretty easy. Just remember the '64-'65 were screw in clips, different to the '66 up wich had studs welded to the windscreen surround.

I haven't got to the replacement part on mine yet, coming very soon. I posted a thread on this recently. Krash responded that he had done his own successfully, so I will probably do mine too.

The seal looks like a similar construction to my old Escort's, on which I have replaced both the screens myself previously. To put it (very) simply, you put the new rubber on the screen, tie a piece of string around the groove, put the screen in place and slowly pull the string, flipping the lip of the rubber around the pinchweld.

I know 3M do a window caulking so I'm going to track down some of that.