quarter window seal

[cgarr]

Can you (or I) remove the quarter window and seal without wrecking it? I would like to reuse it if I can. I am getting ready to repaint the quarter panel on my 86 coupe

Thanks

Craig

[Tim Hancock]

I wondered about this too as my 79 sc had new seals put in a year before I bought it which seems a shame to just cut them and throw them away. (I carefully removed my trim strip for repaint before I found out that you cannot put it back in without taking the the glass and seal out first, stupid me!)

In my searching, everyone seems to say that you need to cut to remove but I may try to pry from the inside or maybe the outside while having a helper gently push at the same time, maybe I will get lucky and be able to carefully work it out (I doubt it though).

The front and rear IMO would be impossible to remove this way but maybe it is possible to do the quarters.

Hopefully someone who has done it will chime in.

[jmshepard]

I did it a few months ago.
I first removed the trim bezel. I then started from the inside of the car at the rearmost section of the seal. At the apex of the seal I pushed the seal off of the metal ridge toward the inside of the window. I worked along the seal on both the top and bottom trying to stay along the same vertical axis toward the front of the car. Clear as mud?

[cgarr]

I think I got it? Pic can always help, (kinda like sex ed class in HS) Did you leave the outside metal trim in the rubber or did you have to remove it? This is what I was worried about if it has to be removed? bending the metal trim, like you always do when you remove the windscreen.

Craig

[CarreraS2]

jmshepard has it right. Yes, you can remove the window and the seal without ruining the seal (or anything else). (Unless you seal is totally crusty, in which case you'd want to replace it anyways).

Do a search for "rear quarter window." There are a ton of posts on that subject on this site.

[CarreraS2]

Yes, you can remove the window and the seal without ruining the seal (or anything else). (Unless you seal is totally crusty, in which case you'd want to replace it anyways).

Do NOT try to pry the metal trim out first. It's not necessary and you will, to some extent, bend it.

Basically, you pry the rubber seal up from the inside of the car, and push the whole window assembly outward.

Do a search for "rear quarter window." There are a ton of posts on that subject on this site.