34 roadster windshield flapping

dodgeo

dodgeo

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The windshield on my 34 roadster flaps and will not stay in a normal shut
position or open. I have tightened the wing nut at the top until I am afraid
I will strip something, but no luck. Do you think I am missing a special
washer or something else at the top ? ,or is this just a result of repo [?]
parts not doing the job correctly ?
Thanks, Dodge
 
Might check to see is cups are seating properly in the stanchions. The repro stachions I had originally had to remachined to fit properly. Also, do you have the rubber gasket along bottom edge?
 
Originally there was a spring steel 'wave' washer used with the wing nut.
 
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A&L Parts Specialties in Canton, CT has excellent reproductions of the washers (they were used on Model As as well) and perhaps Roy Nacewicz does as well (fordbolts.com).
 
Thanks for the info on the spring washer, as mine has just a plain thin flat one
installed. Hopefully that will solve the problem, but I also think that the
combination of original re-chromed stanchions and repo windshield parts
might be a cause of the looseness. Any thoughts about those parts ?
 
As long as you can get tight, flat contact between the nuts and stanchions, you will be fine.
 
dodgeo,


One other possibility given that you are using reproduction windshield components might be the cones that seat in the windshield posts. Some of our fellow hobbyists have encountered oversize/undersize issues with the reproduction cones.
 
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