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Subject:Re: removing side window & saving seals
From:Chris DeLong
Date:Sun, 17 Oct 2004 21:56:36 +0000

If this is about the windows behind the front doors then you need to do the
following:

1. lay on back with feet on window.
2. apply pressure with feet on corner of window.
3. have buddy catch window as it comes out.
4. have a beer and talk with buddy about how easy that was :)

>From: don spence <dspence@OANET.COM>
>Reply-To: don spence <dspence@OANET.COM>
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: Re: removing side window & saving seals
>Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 09:33:21 -0600
>
>You can make the tools from an old yardstick. Use liquid soap or dish
>detergent to lube the seals. WD40 may attack the seal material.
>On Thursday, October 14, 2004, at 08:27  AM, Automatic digest processor
>wrote:
>
>>Subject: Re: removing side window & saving seals
>>
>>Actually there are regular glass tools for this- hardwood sticks
>>tapered
>>down like a carpenters pencil. Probably made by Somaca, a glass
>>products
>>company. Much less likely to make a high pressure point that would
>>break tempered glass. You could make your own. Wooden oversized flat
>>screwdrivers.
>>Al Brase
>>69 doublecab, vanagons
>>
>>VWNut Hawk wrote:
>>
>>>I was able to get them out.
>>>I took a flat blade screw driver and squirted wd40 inside the seal
>>>next
>>>to the body.
>>>Then use multiple flat blade scew drivers and slowly, carefully work
>>>and pry the whole window out with the seal.
>>>

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