Re: [gremlintime] windshield removal

[mwoodstrup <mwoodstrup@xxxx>]

on 3/30/02 11:04 AM, Fredrick Burns at fburns@xxxx wrote:

> 
> Needing an opinion or two please....I finally found a replacement windshield
> for my daily driver '74 grem and the glass is still on a '72 hornet at a
> wrecker's yard...only thing is I have never removed a windshield before.
> If I pull it myself the glass costs about $22 US, and if I get them to pull it
> I pay about $56. My instincts are telling me to let them do it as I might end
> up cracking the glass...it is still a deal at $56, right? and there is a
> gremmie there that i can score a spare hatch window and quarter windows by
> myself, also cheaply priced :-)
> Thanks for your help!
> 
> Freddie
> 2x '74 GremX304s
> 
Freddie,

have them do it! You really needs special tools to do the job right. You
could wait for a really HOT day, so that the heat work help break the seal,
but for $56? You can go wrong. If they break it they keep it. Get the
back window. Always good to have a spare.

Matt