This is one you might want to let the local glass guy take out and put back. It'll be less than the cost of a new piece of glass and he'll have the tool to cut the old seal plus that terrible black sticky stuff to put it back in later with.
Taking the dash out might be a better option. Less chance of breaking the glass and you don't have to buy a new window weather seal.
You'll more than likely break the window strying this.
But you could try working a thin flexible putty knife between the edge of the weather strip and the inside body of the car. Run it all the way around the window. This helps make sure the inside strip is not stuck to the body. Then you could start on one side and start to push out working the weather strip and window out a very little at a time. Your trying to work the strip of the body and not off the window. Remember that the glass doesn't flex at all and weather strips get old and very hard. If the weather strip is hard this won't work. If this works though you'll save the weather strip and window.
The other way is to cut the inside of the weather strip off then just push the windows out. Or they sell a tool just for splitting the weather strip into its two parts. The window side and the car side.
Good luck and take all the time you need to do a good safe job. Put those safety glasses and gloves on just incase the glass chips off a piece in your direction.
before you start with the knife, get you some spray lubricant, silicone or even wd40 will do, spray(saturate) the window frame/rubber. then do the pick and peel with your knife all the way around. get a buddy to catch or push, whichever, start at one corner, and work your way around. clean up the spray and any adhesive with some 3m all purpose cleaner.
Hey,66 ,I'm a professional bodyman ,and trust me, if you are removing the windshield on your '66 ,follow Milo's advice and let a pro do this for you .They have the tools & knowledge to do this the CORRECT way .The glass on a "66 Chev., should be installed with a butyl type ribbon and butyl sealer .It was a fairly decent system for it's time ,but ask anyone who ever worked with it ,and they'll tell you what a sticky mess this stuff is. Besides ,this type of sealant dries out with age ,and if your windshield hasn't been out for a few years ,you probably would benefit by replacing it .
Butyl rubber secured windshields can be removed by running a small diameter solid wire, like .030 stainless steel through the butyl from the outside to the inside. This takes two people, one on the inside and one on the outside to both pull the wire along the seam of the window to break the seal. Once the seal totally around the windshield has been broken the window can be lifted off. I used this method to remove both the front and rear windshields of a 69 Camaro I restored a long time ago and didn't break either windshield.
Going back together with butyl seal is a real trick though, you only get one chance to get it right.
I would let a pro remove it. But if you are going to yourself DON'T use a scraper use piano wire, Feed one end through the side of the bytle to the interior of the car. Then ask a friend to pull on the wire that is inside and you on the outside. In the same direction. Use a piece of 1/2 inch dowl about 3-4 inchs long wrap the wire around it.
I have pulled many out with this method.
once the window is out how do you get rid of the butyl goo mess? i got both opra windows out and that suff has to come off before i prime. whats the easyest way to remove that stuff?
I guess I'm not sure why all the fuss with letting a pro do it. I removed both the front and rear windows in my 67 Mustang coupe very easily without event, and I did it by myself. I took an exacto knife and trimmed the seal all the way around the window so there was no seal remaining on top of the edges of the window. Then standing against the door pillar, I carefully pushed out on the end of the window from inside with one hand and had my other hand on the front of the window on the outside. Since there was a lot of sealer on the underside of the window still, I still had to peel it off so it wasn't going anywhere. This is how I read to do it for Mustangs.
Perhaps Mustang windows are just very easy to remove.
well the windows came out very easy. they just had a couple of those skinny metal nuts on the back and popped right out but the snot that was so messy not like the front and back windows they are like your mustang really no mess but these opera windows when i pulled them out it looked like a hundred threads of streched gum and thank god i had on gloves.its just that soft.
I guess I'm not sure why all the fuss with letting a pro do it. I removed both the front and rear windows in my 67 Mustang coupe very easily without event, and I did it by myself. I took an exacto knife and trimmed the seal all the way around the window so there was no seal remaining on top of the edges of the window. Then standing against the door pillar, I carefully pushed out on the end of the window from inside with one hand and had my other hand on the front of the window on the outside. Since there was a lot of sealer on the underside of the window still, I still had to peel it off so it wasn't going anywhere. This is how I read to do it for Mustangs.
Perhaps Mustang windows are just very easy to remove.
I have never done a 67 mustang, but in 1965 the glass was set in a rubber gasket, cut the gasket lip and the glass comes out. On the Chevelle the windshield is glued to the pinch weld with a butyl compound. it has to be cut loose from the glass.
I have a couple of 1" dia x 6' long hardwood dowels that I drilled a hole thru the center of each. I thread the piano wire into the hole then give it a couple wrap around the dowel. Makes great handles. I just use a long piece of piano wire and use a sawing action as I pull, only takes a few minutes to cut a complete windshield out.
Never tried it with a 2nd person, seems like that would take more coordination than I have, lol.
I guess I'm not sure why all the fuss with letting a pro do it. I removed both the front and rear windows in my 67 Mustang coupe very easily without event, and I did it by myself. I took an exacto knife and trimmed the seal all the way around the window so there was no seal remaining on top of the edges of the window. Then standing against the door pillar, I carefully pushed out on the end of the window from inside with one hand and had my other hand on the front of the window on the outside. Since there was a lot of sealer on the underside of the window still, I still had to peel it off so it wasn't going anywhere. This is how I read to do it for Mustangs.
Perhaps Mustang windows are just very easy to remove.
the opera windows of the Monte came out very very easy. my problem is the darn butyl on the car body where the windows came out. i don't know what a pro would use but by the same token hes not painting the window frames, he would just clean up a bit and add more butyl and pop the window in. im trying to get that crap off so i can paint the complete body for a full color change.
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