Giulia Spider Windshield

[dennis skraba]

I am finally getting around to installing my windshield, and i have some questions.
1- 5Just how and where does the bottom rubber meet the rubber of the side post? I put the chrome strip and bolts into the bottom rubber and fit it to the cowl. When i put the side posts in place it looks like the chrome strip will stick into the side post rubber opening by obout 5/8-1/2".
I haven't trimmed the bottom rubber yet as i would like to see a picture of this joint.
2- Do you add a sealer under the bottom rubber?
3- Do you glue the side post rubber into the side post?
Any help here will be greatly appreciated
Dennis

[alfazagato]

All questions that I asked myself before doing the job. Right or wrong what I did was to cut the outside of the rubber seal in the posts to allow it to bend to the line of the post and taped the screen in place whilst the rubber bonded to the post. I then cut the bottom rubber to fit between the two post rubbers and mounted that with the chrome strip which does overlap and fit behind the posts. Finally I opened the posts from the screen to fit the top bar and secured it in place and used miles of masking tape to hold everything together.
I used a bead of non-setting mastic under the posts and along the bottom rubber and then dropped the screen-posts-top bar unit into place and onto the funny shaped rubber gaskets that fit under the posts....remembering to clean out the drain hole first. Drilled the holes for the mounting bolts and tightened up the posts nuts and mounting bolts.
Sounds easy...it isn't!

[dennis skraba]

Stuart
Thank you for the quick reply, I'm going to try this in the morning.
Dennis

[58_spyder]

Dennis,

Hopefully it all went well for you. If you haven 't started. I will post how I did the job yesterday on my car.
First, I noticed I had two different chrome strips on my cars. The one origenally on my car had small corners cut out where it would meet the posts (like 5 by 5 mm) which made the fitting easier, I believe that this was original as the cuts were perfect in its original chrome, so I do not believe this was done later. On my second car the strip was ended by a straight cut. I was lucky to have the old rubbers with the car, which I first installed with the posts. Then I assessed how the best fit would be and I decided it would be best if I would keep the rubber 3 mm longer than the strip (following the cut out bit). Then I prepared the rubber for the posts. By cutting it . Unlike Stuart, I did not cut of the lower part of the rubber where it fits horizontally, this resulted in the rubber being a little bit higher on the interior site of the car 5-6 mm.
First I installed the posts ,not firm so I could still move them, and then I installed the rubber and chrome strip to the car. I installed the top chrome and rubber to the window and installed it on the car placed the top bar in its place by moving the post a little bit and then placed the rubber in the post one by one, as I let the top bar in place as much as I could, I had to unscrew it when I installed the post rubber.
All in all I am happy with it really only very small gaps left and it looks as good as on my 2000 Touring that has a similar window and rubbers on it.
Regards,

Jelle

[dennis skraba]

Jelle
Thanks for the help, with yours and Stuarts advice all went well
Dennis

[alfazagato]

Isn't that a good result....well done!