Thread: 32 Ford Roadster Windshield Finger Pulls

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C9x, This is an old thread, but I am having trouble with my 2" chopped windshield for my '29. You are really a careful worker and I appreciate your comments about drilling though the glass for the finger pulls. I am wasting a weekend waiting to contact the guy at Brookville who installs their windshields. I bought a Brookville 2" chopped chrome frame along with their top irons. A local glass shop "installed" the glass but the side holes are 1/3 covered because the top piece will not go down far enough to line up the threaded holes with the holes in the side frame. I took it back to the glass shop thinking I could get 1/8" trimmed off the top but the guy showed me that even removing the rubber strip across the top the top bar will not go down any further because the top bar hits the side bar. If the frame was stainless I would just trim it with a Dremel bit but with a chromed frame that will probably just chip off the chrome plating. Another idea is to slightly wedge the side frame apart but how to do that without buckling the welds at the bottom of the frame. I do not know if I am the victum of creeping tolerances in manufacture of the frame or whether it is supposed to be a compression fit of some sort. Basically the top part of the frame needs to go down about 1/8 inch further into the side of the frame for the holes to line up. For those folks who criticize some of us for just buying parts, this is just a reminder that many, many parts do not fit as one might expect and one of my most used tools is a rat tail file! Is this a mis-manufactured set up or just the usual cut and fit situation? The only thing I can think of over the weekend is to put the windshiled in position and IF (?) the holes line up with the stanchion holes I can oval out the holes in the side frame with a dremel tool, but I don't want to do that because if I "raise" the holes then the bottom of the frame will not fit above the cowl lip!

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder