HELP! quarter glass on my malibu

[patmckinneyracing]

Ok well I was in the process of messing with the trim and replacing my roof rail weather stripping and I found a rust hole the size of a quarter (drivers side) at the bottom right corner of the quarter glass. Has anyone ever taken the quarter glass out and put it back in themselves? I need to replace the window felts and figured I could do that at the same time.

I am have a stroke over this and want to fix it. So is it hard taking out and putting the quarter glass back in? I already saw the four or five metal brackets on the inside that go around the glass. What did you guys use to seal the glass?

 

[beermonkey9417]

i took the 1/4 glass(?) off my elky before. what i did was take the interior pannels around the window off to get to some metal brackets that held the window infrom the inside. i used an old bicycle brake line(braided wire) to cut the window adhesive in a sawing pattern all the way around. to put it back, i used what i had laying around, rtv silicone. clamped the brackets back on and put the interior pannels back and its still holding...so far 🙂

 

[O. D. Showtime]

The method beermonkey described will work fine...I used urethane to put in the quarter window on my son's Malibu.

 

[Blake442]

Urethane is the correct thing to use to glue the window back in.

Do not use RTV like Beermonkey mentioned.

 

[Jg85350Regal]

Can you buy the urethane in a tube or something? I picked up some non vinyl quarter glass a few weeks ago and I have some strip caulk type urethane but I think it might not be the easiest to work with. I woulda just stuck the new windows in but I bought em from a junkyard far away and had em shipped and whoever pulled em must of layyed em sticky side down in the grass/dirt 🙁 and it made a nice mess. This stuff is not fun to get off, enamel reducer takes it off hands ect but I have yet to find any effective way to get the old stuff off the windows or the car.

 

[patmckinneyracing]

Luckily my old man has a new box of the urethane lol :lol: It comes spiraled in a circle in a box. Wax and grease remover with help remove that stuff. You could also use a heat gun and a razor to clean it up as well.

 

[Blake442]

You guys are thinking of this stuff...
This is what you'd use on a bolt-in 1/4 glass on say a Cutlass or Regal because it stays soft.

Urethane is what comes in a tube and is used for windsheilds, backglass, and other non bolt-in glass, like your Malibu 1/4 glass.

If you used urethane on the bolt-in 1/4 glass on a Cutlass or Regal, you'd never be able to get it out without ruining it.

 

[patmckinneyracing]

The ribbon sealer is what I'm going to be using. This is what we had at the house and seems to work great for what I've used it for so far.

 

[loneagle]

Pat,
How did it go with the 1/4 window R and R and rust repair? I'm getting ready to do the same on my car and I'm not looking forward to it. Plan on cutting out the rusted portions and welding in new metal. Where did you get your felt pieces and how did they fit?

 

[patmckinneyracing]

http://www.dannoenterprises.com/stickX.html

This is where I got the window felts and they seem to have the best quality . I like them because they used a flatter and wider piece of trim rather than a skinner more rounded piece of trim on the stock felts. I would have painted that small area where the felts go by now but the spray guns this past weekend started giving me hell. I used metal to metal filler and a little fiberglass. DIdn't want to risk welding in patch metal, ruining the paint, and having to re-shoot the whole quarter panel.