windshield Help!!!

Okay ive been trying to remove the windshield and rear glass from my 64 savoy. The rubber is harder than anything ive seen. Ive used several blades in my utility knife, broke one knife in half, not the blade the knife! I have to take about 4" at a time, slice, slice, and keep slicing. Its almost like i cant cut through it, then i take a flat head screwdriver and pry and tug untill i get a pieace pulled off. I'm just removing the rubber on top of the glass so i can get it out then i'll worry about the inside rubber. At this rate i'll have the front and back out by this time christmas. There has to bee a better way!! Please help, thanks.

 

Have you tried heating the blade first. It may prove to be a little more productive. If it's getting cold down where you are at, I wouldn't recommend putting a hot blade against the glass though. Just an idea.

 

First, have you removed the center, mylar covered, interlocking piece?
If you can't cut the rubber with your knife (I've had to resort to carefully using a hacksaw blade in some cases) try threading a length of piano wire or similar through the rubber gasket, then with an assistant inside or outside the car, work the wire around the the opening. This should free it up.
Some of these require the inner rubber to be removed first.

 

I have never pulled a windshield, i didn't know anything about a mylar covered interlocking piece. Looks like rubber to me. Thanks.

 

Yeah, you need to pull the key strip out. Once you do that it should be a lot easier to cut the edge that holds the glass off, if the rubber is still not pliable enough to just push the glass on out. Usually if you can start the key strip you can tear it off all the way around if you don't care about saving the rubber, but if it's old and hard you may get it in chunks and bits.

 

Thanks, is this strip on the inside?

 

Outside.

 

It's in the middle of the outside of the rubber, the seam side usually faces the glass side of the rubber. A small screwdriver may be helpful in getting it started. I've been known afterwards to use something like a flexible plastic disposable knife to actually slide around the glass, to avoid chipping it.

 

usually if the seal is rock hard from the sun, I cut them out from the inside. just take your time and wet the rubber cuts friction