Replacement Windshield & Gasket

I would buy the gasket and the winshield from the same vendor. I believe Wilkinson offers a GLUE in glass as on modern cars. The more local to you the better. Hire a profesinal installer for a couple hundend if your not up to it. It is kinda old school, soapy water and a string. What else can you do while the glass is out? Bill 1362

Mark, buy your gasket from Roland in Germany and buy your windscreen from Wilkinson. If you intend to fit it yourself call me before you remove the existing screen ( I can talk faster than I can type) and dont try to remove the stainless trim from the rubber while the screen is still in the car.

Johnny +44 781 718 7333

If your car has blacked out trim, as mine does, I would recommend Wilkinson's oversized "glue in" glass.

I extracted my old glass (one with the internal antenna, the infamous undersized leaker by Viracon) and gasket and prepped everything. A friend that runs a mobile glass service helped me install the new glass and charged me all of $45. One thing he had that did not come in Wilkinsons kit was a special urethane based primer he applied to the windshield bed, otherwise everything you'll need is included.

Flush mount, modern look and guaranteed no leaks first try.

Some body and paint previously covered by your old gasket will now show (about 3/8"all the way around) so before you commit to one be sure you are satisfied with the condition of this area right up to the edge of the windshield bed.

If your original windshield trim is still in good shape, you could probably sell it and recoup a decent portion of your outlay. Like several hundred dollars.

Many ways to skin a cat.

I just went through three months of hell with this. My original windscreen was too small and had leaked for years prior to my ownership, rusting out floors etc which took months to fit. There is a thread here showing the various sizes in glass available through the various suppliers.

I ended up purchasing the rubber via Roland Jaekel in Germany and had an Ozzie company make the screen for me as to get a Wilkinson screen here was going to be over $2k with transport etc.

Do a search for windscreen rubber and you will see the spreadsheet I did on various available sizes.

The rubber from Germany is amazing quality. Highly recomended.

I like the idea of the Wilkinson bonded windscreen because it makes the car stiffer and will never leak if installed properly. I am not sure about the look though. I could probably get used to it provided the blacked out band around the edge of the glass is narrow. The early ones had a very wide band that looked bad and reduced the size of the windscreen by quite a lot!

Glad to hear you where successful in the end Robert.

Johnny

My flush wilkinson came with eurothane caulking. It set way too fast. Other than that, all was good.
Will

I must admit my windshield guy had an open tube of urethane caulk going, so we used his up and I gave him the tube from the Wilkinson kit.

Were you pleased, satifisfied with the fit, appearance, quality of the "Wilkinson glue in Windshield"?...I'm still "confused" as too my best approach, solution...please keep the responses coming, as I want to do "this once" & be "Pleased with the finished product".....Thanks, Mark

It is my opinion that many owners go with the glue in windscreen for aesthetic reasons. Its flush fitting and looks good with black out trim. Besides, the original stainless trim is a bitch to re-install and make fit flush. At a recent p-car outing I noticed that most of the cars that still have the factory windshield trim, fit horribly. We devised a system on my car to solve this. Since we are in the middle of a full restoration and there is no interior. We figured out that we could take a small piece of stainless steel wire drill a small hole a the bottom of the trim and thread it thru a corresponding hole thru the frame. On the inside the wire is pulled tight and held by a self-tapping screw. The interior trim hides the self-tapping screw. The result is a well fitting polished stainless steel trim that goes well with the rest of the polished SS trim. Just another idea.