| Click for Full Screen | 1923 Touring Window Frame Rebuild By Tony Cimorelli | |
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Taking the hooks off Figure1 Disassembling End Caps Figure2 Threaded Boss Figure 3 Breaking Glass Loose Figure 4 Extracting Plate Glass Figure 5 |
 Figure 1 - Taking the side curtain hook bolts off Our mission is to take the old plate glass out of the 1923 Model T Touring front window frame (lower half) and replace it with laminated safety glass. This is a requirement in the MTFCI tours. Plus, it gives us the opportunity to rid the frame of any rust and give it a paint job. At the starting point, we remove the side curtain hooks and mounting bolts (Figure 1 - MAC's part# T7831 on page 86)
As you can see in Figure 2, we need to disassemble the lower frame windshield clamps (MACs catalog Pg 86 - Part# T7824ARX) MAC's has a really good set of drawings in their catalogs and I will use that for references). Figure 3 shows the end cap off and the threaded boss below. You can also see the filler block and glass channel.
Now, we need to break the glass channel loose (Figure 4). It is rusted on the frame so take care in pryiong loose, trying to save the glass channel for future reuse. Replacement channel can be obtained (MAC's Catalog Page 89 - Part #WCK5).
The rust is evident when the glass is pryed out (Figure 5). Take care with the putty knife and pry a little at a time over the entire bottom of the windshield.
Since the Model T is a family car project, my wife, Dorothy, has volunteered to sand the frame down (Figure 6). We have a motto - If you ride - you work. This is messy work (Figure 7), so be prepared to get dirty. This is as far as we go until ready to paint. Photographs: Tony Cimorelli using a Kodak
DC280 digital camera. |
