alvarorb
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Yesterday I helped Darwood fix a leak he had on on his windshield. I asked him how long it would take to do this, and he said "It will take about an hour".
Darwood had recently taking his rig to a windshield place, were they did not believe in the power of urethane. This meant that they only used the black tar stuff, but only under the gasket, not around the windshield. The bad news is that it still leaked. The good news was that the windshield was easy to remove.
Doing this job involved: removing the windshield, cleaning the glass around the edges, making sure that there would be no exposed paint under the gasket, prepping the gasket with urethane, wrapping a rope around the gasket and finally putting the gasket in place.
We got back from Harbor Freight at 4pm. We needed to get some suction cups to pull out the windshield. We got 2 a $2.99 each, rated for 80 lbs. By the time we had the windshield clean it was dark. Then came the fun part playing around urethane. If you think the birfield job is dirty. You have not seen nothing yet.
This stuff is sticky and very easy to remove with mineral sprits, except from your hands. While we wore latex gloves for applying it, we thought that to clean off the excess we would not need it. How wrong we were.
Wrapping the rope around the windshield works like magic. From the outside I was applying pressure to the glass, while Darwood pulled from the rope.From there I could see the gasket falling in place, Just magic.
At 730pm Darwood's wife asked how long it would take to finish the job, he replied: "It will take about one hour". Not very convinced of our speed, or inability to tell time, she decided to join in the cleaning up of the windshield.
By 8pm we had the windshield clean and back in place and the only thing left to do was to apply urethane under it. That's when our wives revolted and demanded we go get something to eat.
Here are some pics:
Regards
Alvaro
Darwood had recently taking his rig to a windshield place, were they did not believe in the power of urethane. This meant that they only used the black tar stuff, but only under the gasket, not around the windshield. The bad news is that it still leaked. The good news was that the windshield was easy to remove.
Doing this job involved: removing the windshield, cleaning the glass around the edges, making sure that there would be no exposed paint under the gasket, prepping the gasket with urethane, wrapping a rope around the gasket and finally putting the gasket in place.
We got back from Harbor Freight at 4pm. We needed to get some suction cups to pull out the windshield. We got 2 a $2.99 each, rated for 80 lbs. By the time we had the windshield clean it was dark. Then came the fun part playing around urethane. If you think the birfield job is dirty. You have not seen nothing yet.
This stuff is sticky and very easy to remove with mineral sprits, except from your hands. While we wore latex gloves for applying it, we thought that to clean off the excess we would not need it. How wrong we were.
Wrapping the rope around the windshield works like magic. From the outside I was applying pressure to the glass, while Darwood pulled from the rope.From there I could see the gasket falling in place, Just magic.
At 730pm Darwood's wife asked how long it would take to finish the job, he replied: "It will take about one hour". Not very convinced of our speed, or inability to tell time, she decided to join in the cleaning up of the windshield.
By 8pm we had the windshield clean and back in place and the only thing left to do was to apply urethane under it. That's when our wives revolted and demanded we go get something to eat.
Here are some pics:
Regards
Alvaro