sliding rear window, replacing glass
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sliding rear window, replacing glass
since the day i bought the truck, one of the rear slider windows was just plexiglass. it doesn't help that it was cut a little too short. anyway, i want to replace it. i've looked at it before, but if i had the glass (from a junkyard or wherever) how would i get it in the window sill? seems like it'd be way too tight. is it easy and i'm making things too complicated or do i have to take crap apart?
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From: tom bean tx
when mine got broke, all the glass guys around here said that they are not meant to be replaced???. wtf.. so after, not finding anyone to replace the glass, i had to buy a whole new window. it was like $114.00 and i put it in myself.
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one good thing about replacing the slider is you can get one factory tinted. it looked like the window would come apart easily but is was all kinda crimped together and some of the aluminam broke off where it was crimped and the only way that i fixed it was by using silicone adhesive, which looked ok but not good enough for me. but that is a personol pref. it will look alright, but not factory. a good glass guy could cut a peice, but it is still a gamble if it went together right and the glass was cut exact. not real easy to do without a real good pattern. oh and another thing most of the guys do not want to put a peice on nontempered glass in place because of saftey issues (a wreck where your head hits a very sharp peice of glass instead of it breaking into a million peices)
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tomtoc, i got a complete sliding rear window for my truck at a junkyard for just 8 bucks! it was normally 15 but they had a half price on glass sale that day. Definitely check out your local junkyard. I have a 95 f150 and the glass i got was from an 89.
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Originally Posted by dreo2003
tomtoc, i got a complete sliding rear window for my truck at a junkyard for just 8 bucks
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Tomtoc, I cant remember so let me know if i am way off i believe that those sliding windows rode in metal frames that where glued to the window if so you should be able to heat up the frame till the glue loosens up and slide the glass out of it and then slide the new glass in i believe that that will give the Clarence needed
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Originally Posted by matt12
Tomtoc, I cant remember so let me know if i am way off i believe that those sliding windows rode in metal frames that where glued to the window if so you should be able to heat up the frame till the glue loosens up and slide the glass out of it and then slide the new glass in i believe that that will give the Clarence needed
problem is that i don't think i can get new glass in the metal piece & windowsill (held in the top and bottom) without taking stuff off.
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tomtoc, this is driving me nuts trying to remember how i got mine out before it is possible but i am on travel so i don't have my truck to look at sorry. Have you measured the upper track to see if it is deeper than the lower track if so the glass gets pushed up and the bottom pulls out i don't think i had to bend the frame but i may have sorry i am not much help right now good luck
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i'm doing a bunch of work on the truck this weekend (and taking pics). i'll look a little deeper and take some pics of the window in case anyone has questions. i don't think it slid up at all, but i'll check again.
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