[T3] Vent window glass

[David Hall]

I had to replace the catch on my Beetle vent window some years ago. That has a similar vent window (in fact it takes the same rubber as the Type 3), but it slid out from the gasket with some persuasion.   I guess you might try to introduce some lubricant between the gasket and glass, or distort the frame a bit to help break the bond. Air pressure? Soapy water?
Reinsertion is shown in the manual using a frame holder and a screw clamp on the straight edge.  I was able to slide the glass back in after riveting the new catch, without the special frame.  I guess it was ‘needs must’, and maybe a bit of drying out of the rubber. I didn’t try to renew the gasket. 

Maybe something there will help. 

Dave. UK VW Type 3 and 4 Club. 

> On 1 Mar 2021, at 01:45, Jim Adney <jadney at vwtype3.org> wrote:
> 
> On 28 Feb 2021 at 16:52, B Fye wrote:
> 
>> Hey all I am trying to remove vent window glass from its frame, and I am
>> not having any luck. Is there a trick to this?
> 
> I don't know of any trick. I think you need a really good reason to do this, 
> because the odds of getting the glass back in and everything well again are 
> slim to none. Nothing worked for my until I just replaced mine, many years 
> ago, with a complete assy from a junkyard.
> 
> Why do you want to take it out?
> 
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