Truckman Front Window Fitting

[Countrygirl]

anyone know how to re-fit a front window on a truckman canopy? Bought a new seal from Truckman (definitely got the right seal as asked them which one) and now struggling to re-fit the window into the seal. No intructions included nor any one their website

 

[paul o']

Without the glass will the rubber fit the hole , if so place rubber on the glass and put lots of dish soap on the rubber inside the channel same place as your 1/4 " string your need to A have the top off or a nice pal to press it from the outside and lip the bottom of the rubber seal on the lower part of the opening, now with a firm pressure but not so it won't move or allow the rubber to peel up/in from your pal .The string should be at the bottom both ends now slowly pull the string and the rubber will peel open as you go around from both sides ! do the top last holding the string so its tight pull inward at all times.
.or use an innertube just do same lip rubber on the lower lip on the opening and inflate to hold the glass and rubber inplace .

 

[Bavarianbrit]

Not forgetting to get someone to bang/baff the glass from the outside with a heavy but soft (we used the old dumdum gone off sealant in a big 2lb blob wrapped in a cloth, fitted hundreds of them during my apprenticeship) lump in the direction of fitting while you are inside pulling the string around the aperture to flip it over the flange.

 

[Countrygirl]

Without the glass will the rubber fit the hole , if so place rubber on the glass and put lots of dish soap on the rubber inside the channel same place as your 1/4 " string your need to A have the top off or a nice pal to press it from the outside and lip the bottom of the rubber seal on the lower part of the opening, now with a firm pressure but not so it won't move or allow the rubber to peel up/in from your pal .The string should be at the bottom both ends now slowly pull the string and the rubber will peel open as you go around from both sides ! do the top last holding the string so its tight pull inward at all times.
.or use an innertube just do same lip rubber on the lower lip on the opening and inflate to hold the glass and rubber inplace .

You sir are an utter genius. Worked like a charm and took less than 10 minutes. Amazing after a good hour of frustration and arguing yesterday!! Thank you so, so much!!

 

[paul o']

Your very welcome bud glad to add a bit of knowhow no magic but just years of doing it lol

 

[Jono 4]

Without the glass will the rubber fit the hole , if so place rubber on the glass and put lots of dish soap on the rubber inside the channel same place as your 1/4 " string your need to A have the top off or a nice pal to press it from the outside and lip the bottom of the rubber seal on the lower part of the opening, now with a firm pressure but not so it won't move or allow the rubber to peel up/in from your pal .The string should be at the bottom both ends now slowly pull the string and the rubber will peel open as you go around from both sides ! do the top last holding the string so its tight pull inward at all times.
.or use an innertube just do same lip rubber on the lower lip on the opening and inflate to hold the glass and rubber inplace .

After 2 hours of swearing and moaning, just done this in 10 minutes following your instructions thank you.

 

[paul o']

After 2 hours of swearing and moaning, just done this in 10 minutes following your instructions thank you.

Very welcome sometimes its the old ways that take the lead lol.

 

[enfieldspares]

It's the string what does it!

Last time was on my Sunbeam Tiger 260 forty years ago. In the old workshop manuals (the proper factory ones not the Haynes rubbish) there was always a guy in a white coat doing it.

Usually the same bloke doing what was called, by some, "door f cking". Which was guidance on which screws to adjust and which way to get a even gap all around with a door closing flush with the body and level with the top of the bodyline of the car.

Here you go. Took me two minutes to find on the internet.

Not my book but, yes, I did have the exact same copy of it when I had a Vitesse 6 and was going to re-chassis it.

Page 52 if you scroll down mentions the string or, as they call it, cord. I had forgotten all about it. Thanks PAUL O for stirring the memory of it.

http://www.triumph-herald.com/bodynotes.pdf

 

[paul o']

We always used sash window cord waxed still got mine 50yrs on coated in wax oil and fairy juice. toggle one end the other a seam sealer nozzel to make it easy to push cord into rubber channel.