[Vwdiesel] '81 Rabbit P/U Wing Window Gasket

[B & R Decker]

Hi Don;
	As Rodger says you can take the riveted glass wind wings from a
donor car but you can also take the non opening wing windows from a donor
car since either will work. You need the metal hardware that holds the
window in to do either conversion. Cabriolets and Jetta I think have used
both Solids and riveted hinge wings. To get one them of a donor you need a
Phillips screw driver to remove a screw from the top front of the wind up
window and then take off the door panel and drill out a rivet. It takes a
little pulling and shaking to get the window and its frame out but you don't
need a new gasket you just install the whole assembly in your pickup. I
don't know if a solid wing gasket would fit in the glued on wing channel but
at least you would have to somehow remove the window hinges that held the
glue in window.
Brian Decker

-----Original Message-----
From: vwdiesel-bounces at vwfans.com [mailto:vwdiesel-bounces at vwfans.com] On
Behalf Of Roger Brown
Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 8:57 AM
To: Vwdiesel at vwfans.com
Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] '81 Rabbit P/U Wing Window Gasket

don camp wrote:
> Since the glue has failed my '81 VW P/U driver's side wing window, I want
to make it a non-opening window.  The dealer in Irving, TX gave me the wrong
gasket (too large).  Does anyone know the correct part number for the gasket
I need?

Not sure on the gasket p/n, but you can grab a vent window out of another A1
with the 
drilled-mounted vent window hardware.  That is what I did on my old '81,
later moved those parts to 
my '82.  Direct swap, I got my windows from VW at the time.  One rivet needs
to be drilled out to 
remove the parts at the junkyard.

-- 
    Roger


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