Taimar Windscreen Fitting
Discussion
We're at the point now where we're test fitting the windscreen with the new rubber (using adrians four sections method).
We've got the screen in, but in the two bottom corners, the glass is touching the lip of the hole. In those areas there's not much lip left and if we grind enough away there probably won't be any lip.
We've refitted it a few times and played with flexing things and moving the rubber pieces and got it a bit better some times.
We've got a reasonably good gap everywhere else, it's slightly large at the top/bottom, which makes the rubber sections a little loose, but they'll only move up/down by about 3-4mm ish.
What's the best way to go if we do have to grind the corners where there's almost no lip left? Do we have to just build the lip back by sanding the body back to create more lip?
Can we grind the corners of the screen to get that little bit more space without having to remove too much of the lip?
The other question is, we're doing this with a laminated screen that we got in another Taimar body, but it's got a chip/small crack in it and it's starting to delaminate so it will get replaced at some point, will it be better to just get the new screen and do the fitting with that so that we don't have to do more messing about with grinding the body once the cars been painted and finished?
Few pictures of the two bottom corners:
Thanks
Thomas
We've got the screen in, but in the two bottom corners, the glass is touching the lip of the hole. In those areas there's not much lip left and if we grind enough away there probably won't be any lip.
We've refitted it a few times and played with flexing things and moving the rubber pieces and got it a bit better some times.
We've got a reasonably good gap everywhere else, it's slightly large at the top/bottom, which makes the rubber sections a little loose, but they'll only move up/down by about 3-4mm ish.
What's the best way to go if we do have to grind the corners where there's almost no lip left? Do we have to just build the lip back by sanding the body back to create more lip?
Can we grind the corners of the screen to get that little bit more space without having to remove too much of the lip?
The other question is, we're doing this with a laminated screen that we got in another Taimar body, but it's got a chip/small crack in it and it's starting to delaminate so it will get replaced at some point, will it be better to just get the new screen and do the fitting with that so that we don't have to do more messing about with grinding the body once the cars been painted and finished?
Few pictures of the two bottom corners:
Thanks
Thomas
I have only fitted two screens and the fist one I cracked. But looking at the pictures I would say its not as bad as it looks. When I first measured up the screen I did the four rubber method as you have but you need to put something at the back of the bottom rubber to pull the screen out a bit. When you do this it will also pull the screen away from the bottom corners leaving you enough space to fit the rubber in. I did have to do a little trimming of lip but only a mm or two.
Hope this helps
Chris
Hope this helps
Chris
spikep said:
Brian, put a new screen in. If that's delaminating on two of the picture it will detract from the rest of the car
Richard
I've persuaded him that we need to do that, Richard
heightswitch said:
buy a new screen, fit the new screen..You may not have a problem with the screen you intend to leave in the car?? Presumably the car had a screen that fitted that aperture at some point and it wasn't a problem.
N.
That was my logic too, not to do too much messing until we've got the screen that's staying in it.N.
It didn't have a screen in when we bought the project, and it's had some accident damage repairs around the screen area on one side.
With some more pushing and messing (as per chris52s advice), we've got a better gap, so it might not need quite as much work as it first seemed.
It won't necessarily. An original screen would probably fit better.
When I said "new", I meant the new screen we'd bought as opposed to the one we had out of another car which had a chip in it and wasn't a brand new screen.
We finally got it fitting nicely by just repeatedly taking it out and shaving some off the lip and putting it back in again, then usually swearing at it and doing it some more,
When I said "new", I meant the new screen we'd bought as opposed to the one we had out of another car which had a chip in it and wasn't a brand new screen.
We finally got it fitting nicely by just repeatedly taking it out and shaving some off the lip and putting it back in again, then usually swearing at it and doing it some more,
Managed to almost re-fit the windscreen (new seals) to my 79 Taimar a couple of years ago.
Had to get local fitter to finish the job. He commented it is a difficult job & that my mate & I had done well - just needed to push/shove harder. Roof is surprisingly "floppy" until glass is in place.
Unfortunately all this was done before I read Exactly how to do job, local fitter used ordinary sealant & after 6 months screen leaked again!!!
So I removed only the chrome trim, scraped out the sealant between screen & seal & re-sealed with good quality silicon sealer as per Exactly recommendation.
So far, 6 months on, no leaks.
MikeS
Had to get local fitter to finish the job. He commented it is a difficult job & that my mate & I had done well - just needed to push/shove harder. Roof is surprisingly "floppy" until glass is in place.
Unfortunately all this was done before I read Exactly how to do job, local fitter used ordinary sealant & after 6 months screen leaked again!!!
So I removed only the chrome trim, scraped out the sealant between screen & seal & re-sealed with good quality silicon sealer as per Exactly recommendation.
So far, 6 months on, no leaks.
MikeS
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