Project Datstang

[Anderson521]

Thats some sweet glass, the flush mount will look tits

[mrbigtanker]

Wow where did you get the glass

[finney]

Glass looks real nice. I plan on replacing my long side windows in my V520 with a single piece glued in. Looks like the glass is stamped? Did you go with tempered safety glass or just laminated? 

 

Any further info on the front 1 piece conversion?

[Bory]

No it's tempered, and tinted, full safety glass,

Good news I'm gonna offer the one piece as a kit form

[Bory]

 

 

 

The diff mounts look a little thin compared to the robust frame end.

Here are the new brackets I made

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Back to 1/4" bar stock

[Jester]

That's more like it. 

[Bory]

 

Made a body rack out of a piano dolly

[Bory]

 

Getting better at my beads!

Kinda-

[Draker]

That weld looks pretty good. Nice work

[Bory]

Thanks D

[Bory]

 

All my boxing and weld clean up on step side mounts and 4 link is almost ready for powder coating

[Bory]

[Jester]

I really like all the little details throughout this truck.

Like the holes in the body mount gussets. 

[Bory]

Thanks J!

[Bory]

So I'm getting started on the flush mount windshield, which will allow the bonding method rather than the rubber gasket, there is 2 ways of getting this done,

1. Cut a larger ws,

2. Make the receptacle smaller.

I Have been quoted up to 7000 bucks for a bigger ws.

So I'm gonna do the latter.

[Bory]

 

After removing rubber, I let the glass slide down till it bottomed out, I used Popsicle sticks for the proper gap.

Here you can see how much I have to close up the opening.

[Bory]

[Bory]

The first thing I'm doing is building the new flange, I'm using vertical blinds as a pattern, traced the radius of the top edge, then cut it out and transfer on to some 18 G sheet metal

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[Bory]

Here you can see the gap is not consistent

[mklotz70]

I think I'd be more tempted to raise the glass to the top and fill in the bottom.  I think it would be a lot less noticeable at the bottom and wouldn't affect your field of vision.

[Bory]

Actually it's only 1/2" of fill I have to do, and I actually want a subtle body mod that you can see if you have a good eye for it, kinda like the 63 bugs had slightly smaller side glass than the later ones. Glass is gonna have a 1" of black paint on the edge to hide the butyl bond, with a polished edge. Using the stock glass as a pattern, and have a grey smoke one coming.

[mklotz70]

You have a new windshield coming?  Why not have it made a 1/2" bigger?  It will look pretty sweet with a glued in windshield.....looking forward to seeing it.