55.2-59 Windshield help please!!!!

[ironadict]

Originally Posted by MiraclePieCo

How supple is the gasket you got? On mine getting a softer gasket made all the difference.

Thanks for the advice. Do you know who makes the softer gaskets?

[sack54]

Just put one in my 1956 GMC . Its a bear I was using glass from 56 , got the whole windshield in except top left ,one slap it went in and cracked. Got new windshield and Steele gasket .Took like 10 mins. in and done. Lots of soap and plam slaps and we tugged with windshield handlers ( suction cups) to get even not to hard to rope in

[ironadict]

Originally Posted by sack54

Just put one in my 1956 GMC . Its a bear I was using glass from 56 , got the whole windshield in except top left ,one slap it went in and cracked. Got new windshield and Steele gasket .Took like 10 mins. in and done. Lots of soap and plam slaps and we tugged with windshield handlers ( suction cups) to get even not to hard to rope in

Man I’m so jealous. Yeah I have a feeling it’s the gasket. I dry fitted the glass and it seems like it should be a perfect fit. Did you put it in with the stainless steel molding or just the rubber?

[roger55]

Did you set your windshield in place without the gasket to establish a center and then mark both the glass and the body? Without doing that first it would be very hard to find the exact center when doing the final install with the gasket around the glass.
That's what I did and and it worked perfectly first time.

[MiraclePieCo]

Originally Posted by ironadict

Thanks for the advice. Do you know who makes the softer gaskets?

Steele Rubber.