'65 Coupe Windscreen Removal

geordie said:

..how much aggravation is involved in removing and replacing the front windscreen of a ’65 Coupe and does anyone have a detailed write up please. Thanks.

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For the removal, you're going to waste the existing seal, the cost of a new one's reasonable anyway. Once you've got the trim out of the way (don't ask, I don't remember how I did mine, it was 6 years ago - there's a special tool I think) your best bet is to cut away the seal in front of the window. To do this, use a utlility knife, placed against the windscreen and cutting the seal away parallel to the windscreen. Once the front part of the seal is removed the windscreen should lift right out. Peel the rest of the seal away and spend some time cleaning up the left over crud.

Now, with the '65 you will have a lot of screw on trim clips to check/remove/replace. A lot of mine were old and broken or corroded, but you can get hold of replacements pretty easy. Just remember the '64-'65 were screw in clips, different to the '66 up wich had studs welded to the windscreen surround.

I haven't got to the replacement part on mine yet, coming very soon. I posted a thread on this recently. Krash responded that he had done his own successfully, so I will probably do mine too.

The seal looks like a similar construction to my old Escort's, on which I have replaced both the screens myself previously. To put it (very) simply, you put the new rubber on the screen, tie a piece of string around the groove, put the screen in place and slowly pull the string, flipping the lip of the rubber around the pinchweld.

I know 3M do a window caulking so I'm going to track down some of that.