What you will need. (Total cost, less than $10)

1. braided wire
2. 2 objects to wrap wire around that you can hold onto
3. drill and drill bits to start the wire. (poke it through)
4. Strong tape of some kind
5. A bit of time and patience

Worked wonderfully for me, hope this helps someone.

 

Okay, here's part 2 of my ghetto glass restoration project.

First, I noticed I had some surface rust and minor pitting under the windshield glue where it had not been properly sealed. Wanting to do this properly, I had to find an easy way to clean that nasty, nasty glue off.

I had some suggestions to try plastic grinding bits and several types of adhesive remover, however these proved to be a pain in the ***.

I started doing some experimenting, and found a really easy method which worked beautifully for me. I called my dad over, and had him heat the glue with a torch. I found that if you can quickly follow up with a wire drill brush before the glue cools, it practically fell off the frame.

After the framework was all clean, I used a can of dupli-color rust fix and let it set for 24 hours. The rust fix kills the rust and turns it into primer.

Lastly, I used an aircraft primer to seal the bare metal and keep it from rusting. The aircraft primer is supposedly the best stuff for adhering to bare metal.

Now it's ready for when the whole car gets a fresh coat of paint, and eventually fresh glue and new glass.

 

Awesome. I can't really use the glass removing, but the rust kill paint was super helpful. I've got some body work to do once it gets warmer. =/

 

Just remember when you glue the windows back in there can be no rust or any paint/primer/sealer between the glue and metal. The safest and best method is to "level" the oem glue thats left with a blade and prep from there.

 

That's awesome!
I had done a couple windows before and gave up on the removing the adhesive and ended up cutting away with a razor blade to just leaving a thin amount of the OEM adhesive.
You had rust though - fantastic way to get it out!

 

Just curious, why's that? The OEM glue was on top of the original paint.

As for the rust I had, it was only on the windshield.. and it seemed to be because that windshield was replaced before, and they didn't properly seal the bare metal, so it started rusting under the glue.

 

Oh nice. Handy little thing to know at the pull-a-part, I need some glass for my wagon.

 

Also curious as I will be reinstalling my quarter glass once paint is done.

 

Ok, I called a friend-of-a-friend of mine who works at a glass doctor and asked about the paint/glue thing. Apparently its true that glue is the best thing to glue to, but for situations where there's new paint they use chemicals that "open up the pores" in the paint to make the new glue stick better to it. He also said that in situations where they find rust on someone's car, they pretty much do what I did as they have to back up their work for 2 years.