Thread: Fitting fixed glass in rear - process?

Ok was away over Xmas and New Year so nothing done on the car. On Sat my son came over and we finished off the window installation for the rear door and side windows.

This was easier than I thought it would be but that was partly because we had the panels flat on the table - this would definitely be harder if trying to install the glass with the panels in situ.

Step One: Cut the rubber
I had an old rubber to check measure from and took someone’s advice on an earlier post and cut the rubber about 1-1.5 cm longer than it seemed it needed to be to allow for compression into the corners (even though I held the corners tight when I measured).



Step Two: Fit rubber to the frame
Someone had suggested putting the rubber around the glass with a string and then use this to pull the rubber onto the frame. This was too fiddly to get it to stay in place and the slot for the frame is MUCH smaller than the slot for the glass so I fitted it the other way around - the rubber to the frame then the glass to the rubber.

Note as suggested on another post and earlier I put the rubber in backwards so that the bead is on the inside making it harder for the glass to be removed from the outside.

Step Three: Fit glass to the rubber
You can pretty much get three sides into the rubber just with your hands leaving the fourth side to be pulled out and over the glass.

I used a set of circlip pliers to pull the rubber up as they are round and easy to grip – they proved to be a valuable tool.


Step Four: Insert the ‘diamond” shaped bead to the rubber
I decided not buy the diamond lacing tool for $98 at the local rubber shop! So I had to improvise – version (1) was the circlip pliers – they were OK but did slip out a bit. Version (2) was a bit of coat hanger wire bent into a triangle. It worker ok but was hard to do alone as needed both hands on the wire.

Still got the first window done.


On the second window I had an idea and made a new tool out of an old tooth brush cut into a triangle head. This was great as it had a nice handle and if I did slip did not mark anything.




We both finished off the last rear window – this took a while for the beading as a larger window but still worked the same. I left a longer overlap on the rubber here about 2-2.5 cm as a longer run to hide the excess in.
We are now in assembly mode. Modified tub (shortened front and rear) on first!