I cant seem to get the strip that goes around the edge of the wind shield to stay. it keeps coming out. How do i get this thing to stay in place.

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It may have shrunk just enough to pop out. It may need some goop (glue) to hold it in place.

Shrunken or not, there's a procedure for reusing this molding set out in the GM service manual.

It involves a slight modification to the molding before reusing which is described as follows:

To reuse the original reveal molding, trim off the barb and prefit in cavity. (here they make reference to a drawing that
I can't reproduce for you .)

However if you look at the cross section of the molding you will see that it has a central rib from which there are three
"fingers" extending from each side. It's these fingers that are supposed to hold the molding into the channel. Anyway, what they want you to do is trim off, for the length
of the molding strip, the very bottom of the center rib, the point. The ribs should be left intact. This makes the molding a little less deep and better able to penetrate to the
bottom of the channel.

The factory used a urethane sealant to hold the molding in place but in the years since this information was published I imagine there have been a lot of developments in this area and you'll likely be able to procure something locally that will do the job for you.

Hope this helps.

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I had that problem when I had my first windshield installed. The factory rubber has a tiny slight lip that goes behind the edge of the glass when the glass is installed to keep it from coming back out. I found that nothing I used would keep it in. The original company that installed it came back out and replaced the windshield for free because they had not used the correct molding that locked behind the glass. If you want to install it properly, you have to take out the glass and put the rubber on it before you put it in the opening (and that usually means if you use your old glass, its probably going to break). If anyone has just glued it in and it stayed, you were just lucky. I tried silicone, weatherstip adhesive, super glue and everything else. Hot sun popped the corners out and the rest followed.

Once it comes out there's only one way to get it back in permanently - replace the windshield. There is a ghetto solution, but it won't last nearly as long as doing it right.

The windshield is a structural member of the car - it adds rigidity to the A-pillar structure. The windshiel does this becasue it is glued in place with some damn strong urethane glue/sealant. When a windshield is installed, some excess urethane will squeeze out from around the outer edge of the windshield, and the weatherstrip is pressed into the channel while this urethane is still goo. When the urethane sets, both the windshield and the strip are adhered in place.

If you need to reinstal yours, here's the ghetto solution. You can buy the urethane to instal a windshield at many auto parts stores. It's made by 3M and comes in a caulk tube - anywhere from $10-25 a tube depending on the grade of urethane. Buy a tube and a caulk gun if you don't have one.

Clean the weatherstrip and the channel around the windshield, but do not use any kind of solvent (paint thinner, alcohol, etc). Use a spray cleaner like 409 or Fantastic. Cut the very tip of the tube of urethane off, so that only a thin bead of urethane can come out of the tube. run a very fine bead of urethane around the edge of the windshield in the channel where the weatherstrip goes. Press the weatherstrip into the channel, and use some small pieces of duct tape to hold it in position. Let the urethane cure for a day, then gently remove the duct tape. If you yank the tape, you just might pull the strip free again!

ghetto solution?