{"id":4355,"date":"2019-10-23T18:31:36","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T22:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krissmotors.com\/XJ6\/?p=4355"},"modified":"2019-10-23T18:32:55","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T22:32:55","slug":"glass-install","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krissmotors.com\/XJ6\/2019\/10\/23\/glass-install\/","title":{"rendered":"Glass install"},"content":{"rendered":"

Taking vehicle glass out is quite easy — just cut the seal with a box cutter — and lift up. Putting back the front windscreen and the rear backlight requires a lot more expertise and skill.<\/p>\n

After cleaning the glass and chrome strips, a new seal is placed around the frame (after cleaning and polishing the surface).<\/p>\n

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New front seal set into frame<\/p><\/div>\n

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Working the corner on new seal<\/p><\/div>\n

Getting the seal to sit correctly takes a lot of pushing and pulling using small hand tools.<\/p>\n

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Pulling the corner on the new seal<\/p><\/div>\n

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Working out a kink on the A post<\/p><\/div>\n

Next the glass is carefully placed over the new frame seal and then wedged into the correct rubber groove. A small plastic tool is used to push and bend the seal until the glass is securely held in place.<\/p>\n

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Glass is held against the frame with suction cups<\/p><\/div>\n

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Plastic tool wedges seal around the glass<\/p><\/div>\n

A locking strip is pressed into a seal groove with a special tool, pushing the rubber up against the glass for a firm hold.<\/p>\n

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Locking strip installed with special tool<\/p><\/div>\n

Finally, the chrome finisher is pressed into the seal, covering the locking strip.<\/p>\n

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Fitting the chrome finisher<\/p><\/div>\n

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Newly installed front windscreen<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Taking vehicle glass out is quite easy — just cut the seal with a box cutter — and lift up. Putting back the front windscreen and the rear backlight requires a lot more expertise and skill. After cleaning the glass and chrome strips, a new seal is placed around the...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exterior"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krissmotors.com\/XJ6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krissmotors.com\/XJ6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krissmotors.com\/XJ6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krissmotors.com\/XJ6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krissmotors.com\/XJ6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4355"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/krissmotors.com\/XJ6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4373,"href":"https:\/\/krissmotors.com\/XJ6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4355\/revisions\/4373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krissmotors.com\/XJ6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krissmotors.com\/XJ6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krissmotors.com\/XJ6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krissmotors.com\/XJ6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}