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Look at my car and tell me She's beautiful!

For her 29th birthday (actually next month), I got up the courage to look into the driver's-side door and figure out why the glass fell down into the door...more than a year ago...

Saw the unglued clip situation I have read about years ago. Trying some Golrilla Glue and hoping it holds for awhile!X

Look at my car and tell me She's beautiful!

Reply #1
Good looking car. I used Marine adhesive. made for cold, hot, wet, dry conditions. Held up for 6 years so far.
'88 Sport--T-5,MGW shifter,Trick Flow R intake,Ed Curtis cam,Trick Flow heads,Scorpion rockers,75mm Accufab t-body,3G,mini starter,Taurus fan,BBK long tube headers,O/R H-Pipe, Flowamaster Super 44's, deep and deeper Cobra R wheels, Mass Air and 24's,8.8 with 3.73's,140 mph speedo,Mach 1 chin spoiler,SN-95 springs,CHE control arms,aluminum drive shaft and a lot more..

Look at my car and tell me She's beautiful!

Reply #2
Yeah the glue issue is very common on these. Quite annoying.

Look at my car and tell me She's beautiful!

Reply #3
I think I used JB weld. And that was almost 10 years ago!

I don't think I've ever seen a pic of your car Royce. Get us a bigger one! :D
Looks like all you need is some compound and a little elbow grease and she'll be a show car! Can't beat the south for preserving sheetmetal...
1987 20th Anniversary Cougar, 302 "5.0" GT-40 heads (F3ZE '93 Cobra) and TMoss Ported H.O. intake, H.O. camshaft
2.5" Duals, no cats, Flowmaster 40s, Richmond 3.73s w/ Trac-Lok, maxed out Baumann shift kit, 3000 RPM Dirty Dog non-lock TC
Aside from the Mustang crinkle headers, still looks like it's only 150 HP...
1988 Black XR7 Trick Flow top end, Tremec 3550
1988 Black XR7 Procharger P600B intercooled, Edelbrock Performer non-RPM heads, GT40 intake AOD, 13 PSI @5000 RPM. 93 octane

Look at my car and tell me She's beautiful!

Reply #4
Looks great! :)

On a side note I've yet to have the door glass separate from the clips on my Thunderbird. I'm knocking on wood as I type this.....
88 Thunderbird LX: 306, Edelbrock Performer heads, Comp 266HR cam, Edelbrock Performer RPM intake, bunch of other stuff.

Look at my car and tell me She's beautiful!

Reply #5
The help section, usually doorman stuff has window tracks for ford/dodge and are about twice the size of the stock ford prices, giving ya twice the area for glue to hold onto. I used windshield adhesive and that stuff worked really well on one side. Its all in preparation. Clean the glass and scuff it up with sandpaper, then clean it again. I drilled small 1/4" holes in the clips to give the glue more room to adhere to and helped it dry quicker and it held for at least two years and quite a few miles.

Also, clean and grease the windows tracks really well first. I used white lithium grease and it worked really well, and also lube up the window channels. The window will roll up twice as fast after.
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I honestly dont think you could exceed the cost of a new car buy installing new *stock* parts everywhere in your coug our tbird. Its just plain impossible. You could revamp the entire drivetrain/engine/suspenstion and still come out ahead.
Hooligans! 
1988 Crown Vic wagon. 120K California car. Wifes grocery getter. (junked)
1987 Ford Thunderbird LX. 5.0. s.o., sn-95 t-5 and an f-150 clutch. Driven daily and going strong.
1986 cougar.
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Look at my car and tell me She's beautiful!

Reply #6
Haystack - Thanks for the advice about greasing up the window tracks. I'm going to try to do that tomorrow. I think I'll just go with my stock clips for now, but will look for the doorman replacements, and maybe just add them to my parts inventory and have the peace of mind that they'll be waiting for me if needed in the future.

ZondaC12 - I posted that pic straight from my phone. It's not as easy (for me) as on my home computer. Maybe I can try to upload some better pics later. After the polishing, of course! I used to have several good pics up a long time ago. Enough years ago that I don't even know if they were on this version of the site somewhere, or maybe the old one?

 

Look at my car and tell me She's beautiful!

Reply #7
My car is officially 29 years old TODAY (yes, St. Patrick's Day......that explains a lot).  I used aquarium silicone on mine.  I tried the Gorilla glue along with other adhesives.  The aquarium silicone has been the best so far. 6 years running.....
-- 05 Mustang GT-Whipplecharged !!
--87 5.0 Trick Flow Heads & Intake - Custom Cam - Many other goodies...3100Lbs...Low12's!