My 1971 Sleepy Comet

If you search the site, you'll find the easiest way to remove the windshield once you get the chrome trim off, is to get a good sized razor blade (I used a 25mm OLFA blade in a Stanley FatMax knife) and lay the blade as flat to the glass as possible. Then cut the 'front' part of the rubber gasket all the way around, leaving the remainder of the rubber on the car. The glass will just push out from behind and then you can pull the rest of the rubber off the pinch weld. Then, you can spend several hundred hours afterwards, removing all the sticky, black butyl off the pinch weld, your fingers, your clothes, etc...

 

Oh the glass is in good shape... Its the dash I want out. I decided that unless a freak accident forces me to remove the windshield. I'll just be painting the dash in the car.

 

There are five very tiny bolts that hold the front edge of the dash to the panel just below the windshield pinch weld. You have to push the big interior rubber gasket out of the way to see them. Very hard to get to with the windshield in the car, but not impossible. I believe they are 7/32" bolt heads. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong...

The bolts have been removed in this picture:

 

They are 1/4... And they are the metallic spawn of satan. Ill take another crack at removing it come springtime/warmer weather... But i had every u joint extension adaptor and wrench i even thought would help and Nothing was gonna get in there. I tried the exact method outlined on here in multiple places but they just wouldn't budge on my car.

 

UPdates! FInally

 

Did you forget to post them??? I don't see anything.

 

They are in the first thread.
P.S. I thought the exact same thing.

 

Thanks Craig...