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stevenwells
Dodge Dakota
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7/25/2002
10:32:27
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 Subject: installing rear sliding glass
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Doea anyone know how to uninstall old and install new sliding rear glass in an 89' dakota. if not is there any website that might help.
i found the glass cheap and want to try it myself
thanks
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Halo3
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7/25/2002
12:10:05
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The old glass should pop out pretty easily. Starting from one of the top corners, inside the cab, pull the weather seal back and push the glass outward...generally doesn't take too much to get the seal to slip around the window seat.
The trick is in getting the new window installed. This is best done with a soapy solution in a spray bottle & a length of small diameter rope or cord that is a little longer than the circumference of the window.
Put the weather strip around the new window, and then lay the rope/cord into the V of the weather strip. A little misting of the soapy mixture around the weather seal will help the weather strip slip into the window opening...kind of like putting a tire on a rim.
This is where you pretty much need two people...
Have someone, in the box of the truck, wedge one end of the window into place, and support the window. From the inside of the truck, make sure that the rope ends are in the cab...just to either side of where the window is in the frame (i.e. if you wedge the passenger side of the window into place, you should have a rope-end at the passenger top & bottom of the window).
Use the rope to work the interior side of the window seal into place. It is handy to have the spray bottle handy to lube things up as you go along.
Hope that helps!
Semper Fi,
Halo3
'00 Lt. Driftwood 4x4 SLT DQC w/5.9L
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steven wells
Dodge Dakota
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8/09/2002
14:58:18
| RE: installing rear sliding glass
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thank you so much, my son and i failed 4 straight times and then boom, it went in. you were a tremendous help and you saved a poor man some money. thanks again
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