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MG TD TF 1500 - Reinstalling Windshield

Anyone know if there are any videos/guidance out there re: installing windshield glass in the frame.....any “tricks of the trade”?

Bill
Bill Reid TD4618

Watch out for the cut out area for the wiper motor.
Slow and easy on the wife's kitchen table
M Grogan TD23816

Many of the screws from the usuaul suppliers are a tad to long. What happens when you install them? CRACK!
D. Sander

Hi Bill. Having tried using the rubber strip I gave up rather than risk breaking the glass and used black polyurethane. I know others have persevered and succeeded but given the trouble I had in getting the glass shaped I wasn't prepared to risk it. Bit messy, but taping off the glass and frame as well as using some temporary packing ensured a really neat job. I painted the edge of the glass black (see pic) and also installed the wiper wiring into the frame first with a pair of bullet connectors at the dashboard end. These were offset so that they would fit through the hole in the scuttle one at a time. Also use grey heat-shrink to cover the correct gauge black and green wires. The wiring from Moss is junk. The only other potential issue is cracking the glass by using overlong screws. I'm really happy with the job. Cheers
Peter TD 5801


P Hehir

As I remember it is pretty straight forward.

Make sure you orient the Auster plate to the inside. A bummer to get the windshield all together and find it is oriented wrong (Yes, I did).

Insert rubber is also fairly straight forward

The primary issue to check is that the glass is the correct size so the holes for the wiper are not obstructed and the side brackets clear the glass.
Bruce Cunha

Pic 2. This shows the test fit prior to using the poly.
Cheers
Peter TD 5801

P Hehir

I installed mine with black silicone and used rubber packing to seat the glass before the silicone was applied. I masked everything off with PVC tape and installed the wiper motor wiring as Peter mentions.
It all turned out very nice.
Regards
Declan

Declan Burns

Whichever way you do it, with silicone or the rubber strip, packing out the frame with rubber first is a good plan. It keeps the glass central and away from the screws, which should be also checked for length as indicated above. If you have changed any of the corner joint pieces, reassembly is more challenging as the geometry and positioning of the screw holes can be slightly awry.
Dave H
Dave Hill

Assemble the sides with the top rail first. I miter cut the weather strip corners and then slide the glass in using some KY Jelly on the glass edge. Then the bottom piece with the brackets loosely fixed to the bottom. once together you can tighten the screws. Once together I trimaway the excess weatherstriping. I have done 4 that way without much trouble. Another here waiting to be done.
L E D LaVerne

My favorite packing strip was rubber impregnated cork that had a cloth sticky back to it. It stuck to the glass during installation so it did not creep in and was just the right thickness. Can't seem to find the stuff readily but no need for me at this point.

Using any type of lubricant on regular rubber strips always has the gasket suck in at at least one place for me. :-(
Christopher Couper

A windscreen that has been assembled with black silicone can be dismantled at a later stage without any problems. We have young grandchildren who play with hard balls and I can speak from experience.

Jan T
J Targosz

Lots of good info. Thanks, gentlemen.

Bill
Bill Reid TD4618

Laverne,

Hope to you make another video when you install the windshield like you did last time for the front brakes .

This will be my first project when the pieces come back from chrome.

Frank
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Frank Cronin

Frank it's worth checking the location of the post on the brackets at the top corners of the windscreen. Moss were supplying badly designed brackets - don't know if they still are - that meant that the top rail & adjacent stile didn't permit an acceptable mitred join. I had to bin my new pair and have the originals repaired & rechromed. I've seen one car here that used these brackets resulting in a step at the top corners of about 5/16"! It looked really ugly. Cheers
Peter TD 5801
P Hehir

Moss were supplying badly designed brackets - don't know if they still are

They were the last time I bought a set Peter! On new ones, I would recommend, if you need them badly, buy the ones with no chrome and no holes, you can heat them and bend them to the proper angle,( I haven't seen a set from the now manufacture,s worth a damn), drill and tap them to fit, then send them out to a chrome shop, but leave a set of old screws in the holes to protect the threads from the chroming process. As Peter said, if you can find a original set use them first. JMHO. PJ
PJ Jennings

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