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Stocking feet or running shoes from inside. Once all that outside trim is out of it the rubber will flex more. Can try to coax one upper corner to start out first, then work along.
Handling windshield between junkyard and installation isn't something to do without thought. Leave the rubber gasket on it if you can. Set it on its bottom edge; if no rubber on it, make SURE you are setting it on a totally even surface, a large cardboard carton or a piece of carpet. Then it needs to be held up.
If you lay it on its face, or if you set it outside up, either way it will probably break while you're driving it home. The weight of it will crack it.
Maybe have a friend or two go along, and take a pickup truck or van with enough open floor to hold it. MAYBE a hatchback 900 with rear seat folded has enough room but don't assume it, measure.
Installing, youll want to clean the lip on the car and also the interior groove of the rubber. I believe there's a soft urethane paste that is used sometimes to help the seal to the body, maybe also to glass. A little of that is probably wise, especially to body at top corners coming down sides.
You take a long piece of heavy cord, like drapery cord, and run it inside the rubber grooove all the way around the glass, cross the ends, then pass the ends into the car and set the windshield partly into place. Have a helper or two to guide it and push in a little if needed. What you do is take the ends of the cord and pull one and it "zips" the lip of the rubber in all the way around. It's fun to do.
Oh, I remember, you need to remove lots of interior trim including the dash to do this entirely properly on at least later 900s, 90 and up. Maybe also earlier but I don't know. Saab added four or so rubber flaps to the rubber, two at top and two below the dash, that are attached to the metal interior bodywork with sheet metal screws. The idea being I guess to stop the windshield from popping out when you and your passenger fly into it head first in a crash, without your seatbelts on.
You could just cut those flaps away with a razor knife. I'm pretty sure glass shops don't bother with them. (Wear your seatbelt!)
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, Wed, 6 Feb 2008 06:47:20
, Wed, 6 Feb 2008 10:46:46
, Wed, 6 Feb 2008 11:38:30, Sat, 19 Jul 2008 10:03:16
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