white smoke in windshield
 

does anyone know how to get that white smokey crap out of an otherwise nice windshield, my "new" cab has seen way too much sun!!!

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Ol' Buck: '72 Chevy 1/2T 4x4 shortbox stepside 350/350auto on '84
ralleys and 31/10.5s

Angel girl: 67 Cutlass convertible
330, 3spd stick

Greener: 90 GMC Jimmy
350/auto
Chad Stephens
Orleans,NE

no name yet: 72 442 under serious construction

I would say you will have to buy a new windsheild. That comes with age.

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67 GMC Stepside(UNDER CONSTRUCTION)
67 GMC Custom
67 Chevy C-30

Hey,
That 72 442 under serious construction wouldn't be a convertible would it? One of my favorite looking rides. Sky blue exterior with a white interior and white top. Good luck on the construction. I'm with Tim on the windshield. I think it has something to do with the plastic sandwiched between the glass.

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66 Chevy C30 Stakebody Dump, PS,PB, 327cu in
71 Corvette Coupe 454 4 speed
79 Chevy 4X4 (Tom's old truck)

I've never heard of a fix for that. It's caused by the 2 layers of glass seperating. Toss in a new windshield. You'll love the way it looks too! Crystal clear.

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63 Impala*66 Chevelle SS*69 Chevelle*69 C10 Stepside*71 Cheyenne 20*72 Chevelle

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Whats up with that stuff, I got it too, it sucks, either its more noticable sometimes or it appears and disappears. Whats the cause of it?

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1969 Chevrolet Custom Camper 20 350/400 70k original miles, 99% rust free

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Clean your glasses.

No way out of that one it's new windshield time.

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Steve's 70 CST
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[This message has been edited by 1970 CST Short Wide (edited April 11, 2002).]

Yeah, it is from the layers of plastic and silicone and glass seperating. Tehse trucks seem to be pretty bad about it too.

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'69 G.M.C. 350/350. Trying to clean up the left over damage from the Dope-Smokin-Old-Man
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Andy, in Columbus Ohio

We all have that stuff. The guys above are right. It's from layer separation.

Of course you could scrub REAL hard, and maybe in 200 years you could actually make it through the first layer and finally get to the stuff, but of course the whole windshield would be like that then. :P

Start planning to get a new one.

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'69 3/4 ton C20 2wd w/ 350ci/400THM and a wood bed!
'69 3/4 ton Custom 20 2wd w/ ORIGINAL 350ci/4sp Manual and a wood bed (parts beast).
Seattle, WA.

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Go outside crab a big rock,brick or cynder block,stand infront of hood-throw it HARD so it doesnt bounce back on the hood,thats the only fix,then take to glas shop and have new windshield installed,or just live with it,id do,i tell everone its a rare factory option,never owned a truck without it though.

Yeah, everyone I owned or worked on that had original glass had it. Some worse than others. I don't even notice mine anymore, but ppl who get in ask about it as soon as they get used to the noise. (that's the first thing they notice)

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'69 G.M.C. 350/350. Trying to clean up the left over damage from the Dope-Smokin-Old-Man
I've been dubbed the Longhorn Freak/Fanatic/Expert, I just hope I can live up to it.
FINALLY got the HORNIAC...a '70 one ton Longhorn with a Pontiac 350/350 and lots of 'personality'. Check out The Longhorn Webite.
If you need a pic posted, E-mail me at longhornmail@yahoo.com
Andy, in Columbus Ohio

I have a crack going all the way across my windshield horizontally with the spiderweb in the upper right corner. All around the edges, there is about a 2-3 inch white strip. People get in and ask me how the hell do I see out. It doesn't bother me at all. I can see right over the crack, and the other stuff is out of the way.


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1970 C-10 named HOSS
350/350, PS, PB, 3.07 gears
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Hook 'Em from Austin, TEXAS

DANG, I was hoping there was some kind of heat treat method of getting rid of that crap without having to buy new, windshield is not cracked or pitted bad or anything....DDSmith, no, unfortunately, that 442 is not a convertible, it's a hardtop with a long way to go, all I've done so far is set the engine in it, still trying to decide on a rear end. I think maybe Desert Rat had this car at one time and decided to fix the white smokey stuff in the windshield, it's not broke clear out, but has a big ugly spiderweb crack in the top right corner.

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Ol' Buck: '72 Chevy 1/2T 4x4 shortbox stepside 350/350auto on '84
ralleys and 31/10.5s

Angel girl: 67 Cutlass convertible
330, 3spd stick

Greener: 90 GMC Jimmy
350/auto
Chad Stephens
Orleans,NE

no name yet: 72 442 under serious construction

When i sold that car i had a NOS winshield lying in the backseat,you didnt get it with the car?????

Put in a new sheild and problem is solved. The new windows don't have these layers of plastic inside of them like our old ones did.

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Andy
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