busted rear window

[bison]

meh, for a ranch truck cut yourself a piece of plexi and silicone it in.

Heck, use construction adhesive if you want.

As long as it keeps the heat in in winter and the rain out in summer, who cares when you're bashing across the fields or burning down the grid roads?

If push come to shove i'll stuff a straw bale in that hole for all i care

 

[bison]

I put a new rear window in the truck.
I found a piece of 1/4 plexiglass in the dump ,plenty long but 2" shy of the needed width.
Added to the top 3" is galvanised tin to cover the shortfall,plus 2 pieces of angle iron to give it strenght.
original rear half of window rubber is still in place between the frame and glass.

Turned out not too bad did it?

 

[ak diesel driver]

looks good! what's with the "pink" gen set? lol

 

[btfarm]

Looks pretty good Simon!

 

[trouttrooper]

Find one of those rear window stickers that covers the top portion and no one would ever know

 

[NVW]

looks good! what's with the "pink" gen set? lol

x2

Looks pretty good Simon. Just a little Redneck.

 

[chessie 6.5]

it should be a rubber one piece gasket. You put replacement glass in old gasket, put a cord in the groove in the gasket and pull it out slowly as you install window and gasket as an assembly. Personally, I'd find a good used sliding rear window assembly and put it in . Craigs list or Ebay. Or you could just pay a glass company or one of those on-site windshield installers to put it in for you. It would only take them 5 minutes.:thumbsup:

 

[bison]

it should be a rubber one piece gasket. You put replacement glass in old gaskett a cord in the groove in the gasket and pull it out slowly as you install window and gasket as an assembly. Personally, I'd find a good used sliding rear window assembly and put it in . Craigs list or Ebay. Or you could just pay a glass company or one of those on-site windshield installers to put it in for you. It would only take them 5 minutes.:thumbsup:

you're livin way in the past man when DIY was the norm,these suckers are glued in place these days

 

[bison]

looks good! what's with the "pink" gen set? lol

pinky color is result of sun bleaching cheapy paint on cheapy Chinese generator been sitting outside to long

 

[chessie 6.5]

Sorry, my last one was an 86 and it had the gasket. They make a tool for removing it, but to clean up the mess that you have now, use a heat gun to soften the old mastic and work it away with a plastic or nylon scraper. Clean up with solvent. Have one of those glass installers remove other window with their tool or find someone to borrow theirs; probably a body man. Get enough mastic from the glass company or go to Lowes and get a caulking tube of silicone to reinstall. You'll need to hold glass in place with some blocks or duct tape for a day or two till it sets up. A used sliding rear window would be a nice addition.

 

[bison]

Sorry, my last one was an 86 and it had the gasket. They make a tool for removing it, but to clean up the mess that you have now, use a heat gun to soften the old mastic and work it away with a plastic or nylon scraper. Clean up with solvent. Have one of those glass installers remove other window with their tool or find someone to borrow theirs; probably a body man. Get enough mastic from the glass company or go to Lowes and get a caulking tube of silicone to reinstall. You'll need to hold glass in place with some blocks or duct tape for a day or two till it sets up. A used sliding rear window would be a nice addition.

This is just an old ranch beater,i'm not about to spend $$ on cosmetic apearance.:nonod:

i just scraped the glass from the rubber glued to the cab frame and bolted the plexiglass to it with a lick of silicone for good measure in between.
As long as it keeps the weather out i'm happy.:thumbsup:
If it wasn't for the plexiglass i found there would've been plywood in it.:hihi:

 

[Matt Bachand]

She sure is purdy!