I'm sure you can!

Good Luck. :thumbsup:

 

thanks....pretty much answered them. i think we can tackle this thing. thanks again

 

:laugh:
Okay, I'll try my best to answer all your questions...Bear with me..

Work can be done off the jeep, as long as the top is sitting Flat, not tweaked or torqued.

The opening should be reasonably clean. Some old sealant can remain as long as there are no gobs or chunks of old sealant that would prevent the glass from laying up flat in the opening. Clean the area with Acetone or Alcohol, clean and DRY is the goal here.

Dry-fit the glass to get the lay of the land, see where things line up and how much coverage you have. Don't forget your rubber block.

A light bead of sealant on the flange, 3/16" or so, will do on the opening flanges. Press glass in gently, there may be some "squishing out" ( Industry Term), which is okay.

Sealing up simply means that after the glass is set, go around the glass with a Popsicle stick (or Polycarbonate Dressing Tool, whichever is closest) and tool the sealant into the joint to ensure complete coverage between glass and Flange. You may need to add some more sealant here and there as you go. Tape the glass to the hardtop in a few spots to keep it from shifting.

This is important. There must be a gap all the way around the glass for the "T" leg of the weatherstrip to lock into, 1/8" or so, so don"t fill it all up with the sealant, just around the glass edge. I'd let it sit at least overnight or until there's no transfer to your fingers.
Excess sealant can be cleaned off the glass with a single edge razor blade after it cures.

Install the new trim, probably have to cut it to length, put the joint and End Caps at center, bottom.
When you look at the new trim pieces, you"ll understand about the gap.

That should do it.

 

ok....couple more ?'s how clean does the opening where the caulk goes have to be??? i've gotten a majority of it out, but it's not all out. I understand where you say backbed w/caulk...set the glass, but lost where you mean seal it up. is that meaning pressing it into the caulk? and how much to you fill in the grove? flush w/the lip or enough to squish some out. really do appreciate the help w/this. nice to know that we can do the trim afterwards too. Oh, should this be done w/the hardtop on the jeep? right now we have it off.

 

Two year old thread still delivers....:laugh:

If you go for complete removal of the glass you will find a small pedestal-type square at the bottom center of the opening. Place a small rubber block (1/8" thick will do) on this and set the glass on top of it. You may be able to salvage the old one. Backbed the opening with the caulk, set the glass, then seal it up. This will isolate the glass from sitting hard on the fiberglass. Common glazier's technique, rubber blocks can be found at hardware stores, glass shops, etc.

Seal the glass, tape in place til sealant cures, then install weatherstrip trim.

 

Thank you

 

black urethane. It's about $20 tube around here at any auto store, and I would pick up 3 of them

 

On a hardtop, the EXTERIOR TRIM can be replaced without removing the glass. There is a small connector at the bottom that joins the two ends of the trim.

Dealer part #s...

55175170 Moulding-23023073 one for each side

55134656 End Cap-W23043017 one for each side.

 

Once you take the windows out and remove the 'glue', what do you replace that with? We are stripping our hardtop down now to repair and paint and I want to get all of the parts together for putting it back together.

 

I have old seals that look like they were cut too short and there is a gap where they were clipped.

There's another small trim cap that goes on the ends of the seals on the bottom of the window, at least on my '89. When one fell off, it looked like the trim had about a 1"-2" gap on the bottom. You may be missing those.

 

Side windows... Hardtop... outer seals...

 

the windows need to come out

 

ummm



Replaced mine last week with windows in.
not that hard.
but
read afterward's u can remove the rubber bump stop on the bottom of the door.
lets the glass drop down further and out of the way.