Screen fitting

[Andrew Gray]

Some tips on screen fitting
One thing I often notice on the early cars is that where the seals join there is often a gap even when the screen has been fitted by a TVR specialist.
When fitting the seal should be fitted to the body ideally warm after a soak in some hot water.
Once fitted to the body cut the seal about two inches on fronts and 3 inches on the rears to long.
Make sure your cut is perfectly straight.
Then a smear of sealant I prefer sicaflex on the two ends.
Then put the two ends together and then start lifting and refitting the seal see pictures
As you go around pressing the seal in and compressing the seal the excess will get less and less as you go round
:then it’s all ready to start fitting the screen.

Set the screen into the bottom channel liberally spraying the seal with soapy water.
Once the seal is in the lower channel make sure it’s pushed down fully into the seal.
Using suction handles makes this easier to move the glass .
Then start working up the sides the tool shown makes it easier to do this and allows you to pull the seal up and the glass in.

Once the glass is in I prefer to put some sicaflex under the flap at the back prior to fitting the locking strip. This not only helps to prevents leaks but prevents movement and lifting and even blowing out as sometimes happens.

Make sure you fit the locking strip straight away before it sets then clean off any excess .

Hope.this helps some

Andrew Gray




|https://thumbsnap.com/7kdPN6ML[/urn















[url]

|https://thumbsnap.com/tboodJBq[/url][url]

|https://thumbsnap.com/7UQbvS6s[/url]

Edited by Andrew Gray on Thursday 14th March 03:59

[catfishdb]

Handy bit of info.

I will be referring back to this when refitting both my screens when the time comes.

Bought the seals from you Andrew a bit ago. The warm water soak idea is a great tip.

Thank you,
Arthur

[Moto]

Great post - really useful for future reference.

Also interesting Vixen (being a leftie I guess it's not a UK car) but is it for road, track or both? Any more photo's

Moto

Edited by Moto on Thursday 14th March 17:27

[porterpainter]

Hi Andrew,

I hope you’re keeping well.

Thanks for the post, very helpful information. What’s the tool that you’ve photographed called?

Have you got any Grantura Mk2 rear screens available at the moment?

Best regards
Andy Porter

(I came to visit when I picked up some Grantura parts when my Berkeley Microcar on tow).

[Fishermt]

Hi Andrew,

Great post. The front screen on my Vixen has leaked from about a year after fitting and I've been putting off having it redone ever since. My wife is in charge of the shammy leather when it rains and the dripping starts! Seeing your article makes me think I really should get the seal replaced ... after 10+ years of shrugging off the leaks.

Cheers,

Marc

Edited by Fishermt on Thursday 14th March 18:16

[Andrew Gray]

porterpainter said:

Hi Andrew,

I hope you’re keeping well.

Thanks for the post, very helpful information. What’s the tool that you’ve photographed called?

Have you got any Grantura Mk2 rear screens available at the moment?

Best regards
Andy Porter

This is the tool really useful

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/116033504997?var=0&...

Yes on the shelf give me a call

(I came to visit when I picked up some Grantura parts when my Berkeley Microcar on tow).

[Andrew Gray]

Moto said:

Great post - really useful for future reference.

Also interesting Vixen (being a leftie I guess it's not a UK car) but is it for road, track or both? Any more photo's

Moto

Edited by Moto on Thursday 14th March 17:27

Hi hope you’re all well up there.
The car is a very interesting car.
A 2500 Vixen
The owner has said I can share the pictures
He is from the UK but many years ago lived in the USA for a few years and bough the car as a restoration project and initially restored the car there.

He then moved and moved to Paris where he has lived for a number of years.
The car was collected by David Gerald a number of years ago where they did further work including one of John Cs amazing re wiring jobs.

At that time they changed the screen seals etc and some fiberglass work was done to try to help with the leakes however with the seals available at the time it’s not worked and I was asked if I could help it was worth it just to see the car it’s a beauty.
Well used and enjoyed both road and track but with original TVR springs and shocks with no adjustment it struggles however I fitted a complete set of Gaz while it was with me for the day.

A few more things needed but looking at the state of the exhaust it’s certainly not a garage queen hats off to the owner/
Here are a few pictures

[Jerry-nsnl3]

Regards the windscreen fitting Andy.
Do you offer the seal around the aperture first, then add on the 2 or 3 inches ,depending on whether it is a front or back windscreen.Then glue the ends together to make the seal an endless loop before fitting?
I thought the seal would have come as a fixed length but guessing not due to variance in different bodyshells?

[Andrew Gray]

Jerry-nsnl3 said:

Regards the windscreen fitting Andy.
Do you offer the seal around the aperture first, then add on the 2 or 3 inches ,depending on whether it is a front or back windscreen.Then glue the ends together to make the seal an endless loop before fitting?
I thought the seal would have come as a fixed length but guessing not due to variance in different bodyshells?

Seals are over long 4.2 meters so follow the pictures and method as gown above
Andrew

[Jerry-nsnl3]

Was just trying to clarify that one detail, many thanks for posting up the process Andrew, extremely helpful.