In reply to AngryCorvair (Forum Supporter) :
Interior, i suppose. Most will be invisible once the window and trunk are on except a tiny bit from inside the car, but you'd have to be trying to see it. It's farther behind the package tray.
I'm not actually considering selling the car, that's just not realistic at this point. I was just feeling a little sorry for myself. I'll finish putting the LS in it and drive it with no window before I sell it and start over lol
In reply to budget_bandit :
that pic definitely helps, thanks for posting it. I say Option 2 is life. I ninja-edited my last post while you were posting the above.
if i went back and fixed all the things on MonZora that i could do better, i'd be working on it until i die. Your deck filler is not that far off. Install it in the correct position, patch in as required to make watertight glass installation possible.
it's really fun to watch your skills evolve on this project. Keep it up!
Exactly my thoughts. Urethane windows are typically shimmer anyway. So make some that work. Nobody but you will ever know.
And don't forget seam sealer in there.
That's the plan. Before I start going crazy, how much gap will the urethane eat up and still hold? My worst gap is 1/4", if I get it down to 1/8" can the urethane tolerate that?
Edit: went straight to the source and called 3M, they say the urethane can handle a max gap of 1/4". So i'll probably try to shim the channel up to a 1/8" gap and call it good
They say if you have 10min, do a 10min job. So this morning I made a template to redrill my brake booster to adapt it to the Ventura (originally from an 80's camaro)
A few days ago, I made some "shims" to raise the height of the window channel to match-ish the deck filler panel and got those welded in.
Hit the spot under the deck filler with a quick lick of paint
and stuck on the new deck filler. I got it spot welded along the rear edge, still need to weld the sides and front, and then patch the access hole I cut trying to get it to fit lol
LOVE seeing this project updated.
Looking great, keep it up!
Hell yeah!
Thanks for the love, fellas. I think about this car almost every day, but i've been working two jobs since August so progress has not been as fast as I wanted. Thankfully, i'm singly employed again, so now I only have to balance between this project and my desire to spend every weekend outside camping lol
Good progress! Glad to see that you have the rear window situation figured out. My oldest son had to do similar repairs to both the windshield and rear window channels on his 66 Caddie. This is looking good.
Tonight I got the deck filler welded in the rest of the way. The front lip is supposed to weld onto the rear flange of the package tray, but that metal was too thin and wasn't playing nice with the welder. So i made these little "outriggers" to move the weld upwards to better metal. Obviously they need to be ground down and prettied up, but they shouldn't be visible once the window is installed.
That's a good solution. Im stealing that
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