Your van windscreen does aggrandized than honest block dust and bugs from hitting you while driving. It reduces your chance of vitality thrown from the automobile in a crash, keeps the roof from crushing whether the van rolls over and still helps the airbag deploy properly. Provided your windscreen needs to be replaced due to cracks, it must be done so exactly.
Instructions
Preparation
1. Remove the rear belief mirror inside the vehivle. Unscrew one of the mirror design's two screws. You can then slide the retaining block and mirror outside.
2. Remove the windscreen wipers. Lift them into the "cleaning position" so they Testament be manifest to reinstall. Pry them up with a considerable Apartment lodgings screwdriver between the capacious stone and the arm while rocking the arm with your other participation.
3. Seal the interior heater vents with masking tape. This Testament prevent any flakes of broken glass from falling into the vents, which could blow into the automobile.
Windshield Removal
4. Probation whether the gasket is even capital. Provided the rubber is no longer soft or has any cracks, you should change it. This funds you can abbreviate it absent and construct the glass Emigration even easier.
5. Push a bulk cutter into the centre of the rubber, manufacture confident you don't hit the glass. Abbreviate all the idea approximately to remove the rubber. You can first off push the glass elsewhere from the inside.
Pull one cord out slowly across the frame, to pull the rubber lip in place. Someone else should press the rubber against the car to prevent the lip from slipping off.14.
7. Gently push the glass out with your foot from the passenger seat. Don't kick the glass. Push it under the inside lip at the top with the wood stick to receive the rubber started through the frame.
8. Have someone else on top of the car in front of the windshield. This person should catch the glass when it comes out.
Replace the Windshield
9. Prepare the frame for reinstallation. Wipe away all rust from the frame, clean the dashboard and remove all sealant from the new gasket. Leave the gasket in the sun to make it warmer and more flexible.
10. Fit the gasket on the windshield. Run a small bit of sealant along the gasket's bottom half channel. The heavy side goes to the inside and the side with the slit goes to the outside.
11. Rub petroleum jelly into the outer rubber groove, with a little extra at the top and bottom center. Run a heavy nylon cord around the outer groove starting at the bottom center, leaving two 2-foot-long ends out in the center.
12. Lay the windshield in place from the car's outside. Make sure the loose cords are in the car's inside.
13.6. Remove the window aggrandized forcibly whether the gasket can even be used. First, break the glass sealant applied by the manufacturer. Run a wooden stick along where the gasket and frame meet.
Clean up any extra petroleum jelly from the frame. Reinstall the wipers and mirror.
