Interchange a Windscreen Moulding
Automotive windshields are held in field with a rubber gasket or seal very as a metallic or rubber moulding strip that can deteriorate and thirst for replacement. Emigration of the windscreen is normally not cold on the other hand may crave characteristic tools. The principles backyard mechanic can secure the glass and change the moulding in approximately a half-hour.
Instructions
1. Secure the suction handle to the windscreen glass by urgent the suction Mug to the glass and turning the helve or pushing on the vacuum Press-stud. The suction employ should be centred as still as doable while yet allowing positive government from one side when the glass is removed.
2. Remove the center windshield clip at the backside centre of the glass, which holds the moulding well-organized by the ends. Pry the clip absent of the gasket, and slide it from one point of the moulding, then the other.
3. Work the molding in slowly, and take your time; being too quick with the molding could damage the gasket, the glass, or both. As the molding seats, use the suction handle to gently nudge the glass back and forth, giving the room for the molding to fit.5. Once the molding makes it back around to the center bottom of the windshield, slide the clip onto one end.
4. Install the new molding by pressing one end into the bottom center of the windshield gasket, then pushing the molding into the gasket's groove all the way around the windshield. The gasket tool can assist you with pressing the molding deep into the groove, seating it properly. Remove the molding strip by pulling on one end until it comes out of the rubber gasket. Continue pulling on the molding until it pulls out, around the windshield, back to the center starting point. When it comes out, the rubber gasket holding the glass in may become loose, but should not release the windshield. Have a hand on the suction handle just in case.
Lock it onto the other end of the molding strip, and press the clip firmly into the gasket. Use the gasket tool to work the clip in deeply. Remove the suction handle from the windshield.
