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| I have a 1961 Dodge Dart 4 door. My passenger side front window keeps falling out of the channel. It has happened 3 times in the last year. I have taken the door panel off & tried different options to keep it in the channel, adhesive, Gorilla glue, nothing works. About every few months it falls back out again. Has anyone had this problem? Any advice on how to keep it in the channel. The rubber weatherstrip is still mostly intact, a little dried out but still there. Am I missing something? Is it just a pressure fit or does something more hold it in the channel? Thanks for any advice as always. |
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| Should I remove what is left of the 60 year old "rubber" in the channel, apply the RTV Black & install the glass? Or keep the rubber? |
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Location: WHEELING,WV.>>>HOME OF WWVA | as long as its pretty clean , still fits into channel and all dry , keep the rubber . apply an rtv
properly and it'll never fall apart again -------------------------------------later |
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Location: Ramona, CA | I'm dealing with this right now on a '61 Belvedere I'm working on. The glass doesn't fit down in the rubber anymore. The car has been sitting in a field in the desert since the late '70s so everything is extremely dried out and dried up. Fun times.
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Location: Etters Pa | It isn't rubber weather striping it is old dried out Glass setting Tape.
It comes in 3 or 4 sizes. (Google it). "Buy 2 times what you think you need".
Pull the window & Channel. Check to make sure the channel is not bowed or bent if it is straighten it.
Clean the channel and glass well, repaint the channel if you wish, leave it set a few days to properly cure. Be sure to mark where the glass sets in the channel.
Wrap the tape around the bottom edge of the glass. The more even the better but if its a little higher on one side than the other you can trim it once it's installed.
lay the window flat on the work bench grab a block of wood and a hammer and slowly and carefully using the wood block on the edge of the glass, work it into place (Do Not Hit the Glass with the Hammer )..
Don't go super ape s**t on pounding the block of wood but don't be afraid of it either.. It needs to fit very tight in the channel to do its job.
I was taught this method at a local glass shop 40 years ago and have done many a glass replacements, channel repairs/replacements ect. I have never broken or shattered a glass..
In fact in a few weeks I will be replacing all the 3/16 standard window glass with safety glass in my 27 Dodge Brother 3 window Coupe.
If you do decide to use a sealer use a urethane, much easier to clean up if you need to replace the glass down the road..
Edited by BHWINC 2021-06-12 11:09 PM
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| Thanks for all the help guys. |
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1961 Dart Window help
