Glass

[dweilmd]

I just painted the hardtop on my 77fj40 and need to re-install the windows -- having lots of trouble. Any suggestions on how to get these back in easily?

Also, my windshield is broken and I can't seem to find anyone locally who has a replacement. SOR sells them but the will not ship them.
Does anyone know where I might be able to get one in North or South Carolina? I did have on glass company tell me that they can make one if I had a template. Has anyone tried to trace the windshield frame to use as a template? Will this work??

Thanks.

 

[Fast Eddy]

Leave the rubber in the sun. Use lots of hot soapy water. Seat the bottom of the window. Put a 1/4" cotton rope the rest of the way around the rubber channel and pull it out to the inside with someone pushing on the glass from the outside and the rubber will follow it around. You'll be amazed at how easy it is.

The seams in the rubber mouldings go at the top.

 

[Plowboy]

ky jelly works great to slide the windshield into the gasket, it's a multi use product!!!!

 

[Poser]

Welcome.

I just painted the hardtop on my 77fj40 and need to re-install the windows -- having lots of trouble. Any suggestions on how to get these back in easily?

Easily?

Write the check....and have a glass person do it.


I bust glass, and pay others to install it.

Also, my windshield is broken and I can't seem to find anyone locally who has a replacement. SOR sells them but the will not ship them. Does anyone know where I might be able to get one in North or South Carolina? I did have on glass company tell me that they can make one if I had a template. Has anyone tried to trace the windshield frame to use as a template? Will this work??

Thanks.

Bring the frame to the glass shop with the old glass in it, and they can use the old glass for a pattern and install the new glass.


I have done this for years, and did it again last June when I had my yard sale and broke the windshield in my junk....

 

[igotta40]

At the glass shop I used, the glazier made a cardboard template and cut the glass from it. All I had to do was drop off the truck and pick it up.

 

[Wadesters]

Windshield

I have always had good luck with getting a winshield through my local Toyota Dealer. Price is good also.

 

[35inchoverdrive]

Does anyone know where I might be able to get one in North or South Carolina?

Thanks.

I used a company called, "Southern Glass and Plastics". I know they have some locations in SC, but I don't know about NC. They had the specs for the windshield on hand, but I just unbolted my frame and took it to them. They had it done really fast...something like a couple of hours... I would highly recommend them if you have a location nearby, but like everybody else says, any competant glass shop should be able to pull off this job.

 

[Colorado Boy-74-FJ40]

X2 on having the windshield cut at a shop. mine cost $150.00 with a lifetime installation warranty ( leakage etc. not breakage.)

 

[672FJ40]

I just painted the hardtop on my 77fj40 and need to re-install the windows -- having lots of trouble. Any suggestions on how to get these back in easily?

Also, my windshield is broken and I can't seem to find anyone locally who has a replacement. SOR sells them but the will not ship them.
Does anyone know where I might be able to get one in North or South Carolina? I did have on glass company tell me that they can make one if I had a template. Has anyone tried to trace the windshield frame to use as a template? Will this work??

Thanks.

Go with OEM from the dealer and have a glass guy put it in. I had a glass shop make one using the original windshield as a template. It was made too thin and it blew in on me while doing 60mph on a windly day. Pretty scarey!

 

[78-FJ40]

Call around to your local windshield install businesses. I had mine replaced by a mobile windshield van. The guy came to my house, measured my windshield, cut it on the spot and installed it.

 

[rusty_tlc]

Another vote for your local glass shop. I replaced mine about ten years ago an no problems so far. Other than it being pitted and needing to be replaced again.

 

[Coolerman]

Move to KY then call your insurance company to come and replace the glass for free.

 

[John Smith]

Later model 40 windshield glass is available from the dealer for under $100 with a discount. It is easy to install yourself. If you are worried you may break it take it to a glass installer and let them do it. The early smaller windshield glass is not available from the dealer and must be custom cut by a glass shop.

 

[dgangle]

Get it at the stealership. #56111-90303 for a tinted for my 75. Cdan quoted me around $80 sug list or $60 to me as a mudder sometime ago. I had one cut many years ago and after inquiring about it at the dealer later found out I paid over double to have it cut.

 

[65swb45]

77 glass should still be available at the Toyota dealer. I show a current retail of $79.54.

Like Poser said, find a shop to do this. If you walk in with your glass, they might not be so easy on install price. But if you let them order the glass [tell them they can get it at the dealer] they may be a little more flexible on price.

A little lesson I learned a LONG time ago. You don't take your own eggs into the restaurant and ask the chef to cook them for you!

Best

Mark A.

 

[Bond R]

The issue of putting the glass in the side windows is pretty easy. It will take two people. First take the glass and put the seal on it. Next take some medium thickness rope and put it the channel of the seal. The two ends of the rope will/should meet in the middle of the bottom of the glass. There needs to be one outside and one inside. The out side person will hold the glass up to the opening snuggly. The inside person will insure the rope ends are inside the cab. They will slowly pull the rope toward they causing the seal to open and pop over the metal. Continue all the way around until the seal is seated and the rope is in your hand. Works quite well. Good luck!