I finally got around to having my glass guy come by and reinstall the windshield properly yesterday. My friend Mike had the glass guy that he uses at the body shop install the windshield and rear glass there after we painted it so I could drive it home. Unfortunately, his guy did not do an awesome job and the windshield actually slid down to the point that the top of the windshield was no longer touching the sheet metal of the car. This caused the glass to sag and opened up the gap between the upper molding and the windshield itself. Fortunately, the windshield did not crack from the lack of support.
You can see the gap between the upper molding and the windshield in this pic:
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The glass guy, that I used for years back when I was running car dealerships, came by on Saturday and removed the windshield glass and cleaned up the mess from the other glass guy. The first guy actually put urethane down first and then the butyl directly over it.
In over 40 years in the car business, I have never seen anyone do this before and neither had my glass guy. In the past, I have always been told that urethane and butyl do not play well together and the one needs to be cleaned thoroughly before you apply the other. This could be why the glass slid down like it did as it was not attached to the car very well. Fortunately the first glass guy did not prep the body right for the urethane so the urethane peeled right off the body, making for a pretty easy cleanup.
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Although he had to do a lot of cleaning of the mess from the other guy, the glass came out and went back in without any cracks, thank goodness. He did a great job of reinstalling it. The glass is now glued to the car on all four edges of the glass now, what a concept, right? The other good news is going forward, the windshield probably won't fall out of the car, and the moldings also fit nicely to the glass now, so I got that going for me, which is nice!
No gap between the molding and glass now:
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Inspired by getting the windshield resolved yesterday, this morning I finally got around to applying cavity wax inside the frame rails and torque boxes. It's not like I was procrastinating forever, I only bought the product and applicator wands 4 months ago, haha.
Back when I welded in the the trunk floor and tail lamp panel, I used weld through primer on the rear rails. I also seam sealed the panels on the outside before I painted the bottom of the car. Even thought this car will probably never see rain, let alone snow or salt ever again. I still wanted to add the cavity wax just to make sure the frame rails and trunk floor are protected from the inside as well as possible.
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When I was done with the cavity wax, I wiped the car down and took it out for a nice long ride. I ended putting almost 60 miles on it, I felt like it was such a nice day, I had to take advantage of it. It is very unusual to have a sunny 50 degree day at the beginning of March in Chicago!
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