That's cool!

 

I text the person and sent them a link to this thread. It is glass.

 

Interesting. Hmmm. Buy the truck, swap back glass, and flip the truck? But, as I think about it, I'm sure the standard weather stripping won't work, and I wonder how hard it would be to find a replacement for it or the glass.

 

I text the seller. They said it is glass. I sent them a link to this thread. Maybe they will join in on the conversation.

 

You'd have to swap it frame and all. And that's only if you want to introduce another risk of a water leak.

 

I texted the seller and sent them a link to this thread. The seller says it is glass.

 

Not sure what is going on, but I have tried to respond 3 times here and it will not show I responded.

 

I see all three.

 

I did not see post #19 initially. Of course, I posted aprx. one minute after, so there may have been a time lag.

Something similar is happening with member Tedster. No one sees his posts until someone posts after him. No diagnosis as of yet.

 

Back when I had my '08 F-250 I had a topper on it. '08 must have been one of the earlier years where Ford used a tailgate that was massively thick in the middle. Looking down on the top of the gate (with the gate closed) the back edge was pretty strongly curved. That's the surface that the topper lift gate "seals" against. In order to latch the lift gate on the topper I had to flex both corners forward about an inch. I'm pretty sure that was glass as well, and it didn't seem like a good idea to me, but the place I bought the topper assured me that this was the way it's supposed to work now. And in the ~10 months that I owned that truck I didn't break that window, so it did work better than I'd have expected. (By the way, this is one of the many smaller reasons I never see myself buying a Ford truck made after '96/'97.)

 

I'm sure everyone already knows this - as smart as FTE members are ... but glass is not a "solid". https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...-glass-liquid/

It just moves a lot slower than us (all except Gary I suppose)

 

True, glass is considered a liquid. But that doesn't mean that it will flow fast enough to allow it to be bent very far!

 

If that's a compliment then I thank you. But, I'm not sure.