How do I take the glass out of the doors?

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Barney1930
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How do I take the glass out of the doors?

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Have a May 29 AA. I need to take out the door window glass to install new weather stripping and replace one of the window glass. I did this once a long time ago, but seem to have had a brain f*rt and can't recall. :oops:
Can anyone help?
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Re: How do I take the glass out of the doors?

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Basically take off the door panel and the trim off the inside around the window opening. The glass should pull to the inside at the top and come up far enough to come out. The channel probably must pull in with the glass. The ones I have done didn't have much channel left and the glass was broken to make removal easy but this should get you headed the right way.
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Re: How do I take the glass out of the doors?

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I've taken the inside sill off (held by 4 screws), taken the 3 screws off the upper trim, but the trim doesn't seem to want to come loose/off. Does it slide up? or should it just pop off?
The weather stripping must be damaged down in the door, because the window won't slide down when i turn the regulater handle.
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Re: How do I take the glass out of the doors?

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Barney,
The instructions for window glass repairs are on pages -363-364 Vol#1 of the Model A mechanics handbook , I cannot scan anything at the moment , I am sure someone here would send you a copy of those pages .
I have just posted this on Ford Barn also.
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Re: How do I take the glass out of the doors?

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Well, I got them out, but there is not much help describing how the "trim" is removed. Once i figured out that it had to slide UP, things moved fairly quickly.
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Re: How do I take the glass out of the doors?

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Thank you for this Post I had the exact same problem the book tells you what screws to remove, however it omits the fact that there are screws that you can not see directly behind the verticle sections of the door sill, nor can you get to them, The key here is you have to slide the door sill up to remove. THANK YOU for the help.
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