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Old Mar 7, 2010 | 07:18 PM
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Originally Posted by Ford_Six
Newer windshields are thinner. I remember the one in my 69 F250 was really thick, but starting to delaminate and get white around the edges. I hit a socket that got kicked up on the highway, and it only chipped it. I had a rock go clean through the thinner aftermarket windshield in my 72 F100.
X2 I broke my original windshield trying to re-install it with a new gasket. Turns out the original glass was like 5/16" and the new gasket only had a chanel for 3/16" glass. Suppossedly the new windshield is 40 lbs lighter.
 
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