The flanges are the lip for the windshield rubber and the weather stripping on the other side. Have your friend save as much of the frame as possible and cut it low. Cut a solid chunk out of the middle where the pillar is a consistent size and use that for your sleeve. I used a thin kerf disk on the cut off tool and cut parallel on either side of the flanges which leaves you with two halves that will match the contour of your frame perfectly. If you want to go over kill weld them together first and cut your pillars in a
Z pattern instead of straight across. Even if you mess up and cut it a hair short you can still slide it up and down on the sleeve until you have your dimensions right and weld it up solid. Don't for get to use a straight edge and check front to back and side to side before you burn it in forever.
I drew a pictures of the frame and measured every which way recording the measurements on the drawing.
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Originally Posted by michael.howell12
On the first post #2 seems like it helped a ton. I'm in NC and having someone from CA mail me the top windshield header and about 6" down the pillar on each side.
In saying that I haven't cut any windshield frames up yet. Where are the flanges your talking about to make the sleeve. I'll have to make sure I get those because that looks like it made the job much easier.
I could maybe just weld in a piece of metal on two sides? But that sleeve makes it look much easier
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