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Any experts out there with a nice step by step guide to fitting Mk 1 door glass and runners please? Last time I did it I got in a real pickle with Sikkaflex everywhere(Glass, doors, channels, hands, floor, ceiling, dog, parents)

As I recall the screws were a swine to get in situ too.

Cheers. Mark

Oh c'mon. Somebody must know the best method or approach to fitting Mk 1 sliding glass successfully.

I'll have a go, but it won't be flawless step by step.

First good idea is to dry fit everything BEFORE you sikaflex everything up.

Fit upper rubber to door frame, making sure the glass slides easily, the rubber can get kinked in the corners. Fit bottom rubber to metal bottom runner retainer. This is where you need more than 2 hands. Fit glass to top rubber, then holding the glass in position fit the bottom rubber runner & retainer to the bottom edge of the glass. Holding everything together, slide the bottom rubber & retainer into position in the door. Jiggle around a bit and make sure the windows open & close as they should. Slide the back window forward and drill a small hole through the bottom rubber & retainer into the door frame for a small screw. You can usually get one in the back edge then 1 in the front of the back window. Slide the windows right back & repeat for the front window. I find it helpful marking the position of the screws on the door until I have finished. When all this has been done. Dismantle, put a thin bead of sikafles where you feel it should go & re assemble.

Hope this helps.

M.

I would offer three suggestions.

Fit the glass with the door upside down.

Before fitting anything mark the metal bridges across the drain channel in the top of the door. Unless you do it now its too easy to try to screw the retaining screws into fresh air....

Don't use anything that has to be squeezed out of a tube to seal the channel. It will set like a glue and make subsequent removal impossible. You can still buy the old plasticene style sealant (dumdum) that will stay flexible and seal pretty much for ever - and doesn't stick to anything.

Cheers, Ian

A very small addition, but I would fit countersunk stainless screws to hold the bottom channel in so that you have a fighting chance of getting them out again after a while.

Simon

Sorry to hi-jack this thread, but just a quicky, what does everyone do to the front and rear screens? Do you use any sealant on the rubbers or do you go commando?!

john

As a rule I usually seal top and sides on body and bottom and sides on the glass

You shouldn't need anything other than abit of lube ( ) , something like silicone spray often helps.

Difference of opinion there! , I didn't use any last time I put one in, but found that there was a little leak in the bottom corners when it rained very hard.

Anymore thoughts,

john

I just fitted them with some silicone spray and washed the car straight after no leaks i could see.

i fit screens "sealerless" then rub dum dum putty all round the glass to rubber joint ,,working well in,then washing the excess off with white spirit or petrol
as you wash the excess off with a solvent rag,it flows the dum dum intop the places it didnt reach when you rubbed it in
ive never had no screen leaks this way

well,not yet anyway