Author Topic: Hardtop Window Success  (Read 18075 times)

66andBlue

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Re: Hardtop Window Success
« Reply #25 on: June 12, 2012, 15:44:56 »
Really ???
For example, Gernold wrote:
Removal:
... Then take a wooden or plastic wedge and pry the glass out of the channel as shown in Figure 3. Don't worry too much about breaking the glass when prying it out of this channel. I have removed plenty of them and never broken one so far!  
Assembly is essentially the opposite of the strip down, ....

You hold the outside of the glass with suction cups and push it into the channel from the inside after you make everything as slippery as possible.
See: http://www.sl113.org/forums/index.php?topic=9220.msg61214#msg61214

Here is another description from a different post : http://www.sl113.org/forums/index.php?topic=16543.msg114516#msg114516
Alfred
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Re: Hardtop Window Success
« Reply #26 on: June 13, 2012, 00:46:13 »
missed the second post entirely , and i dont have an excuse for misreading the first. sorry my bad. thankyou very much for your  help. ill snap some pics of the top while im working on it , and post them up here on the forum for all to see

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Re: Hardtop Window Success
« Reply #27 on: June 14, 2012, 03:46:30 »
Yes please, by all means post your pix!
It doesn't hurt to get as many different views as possible on this non-trivial task.
I don't know anyone who hasn't struggled with this on the first (or even second) try.
Alfred
1964 230SL manual 4-speed 568H signal red
1966 230SL automatic 334G light blue (sold)
1968 280SL automatic (now 904G midnight blue)