About a year ago (maybe even longer ago than that) Anthony donated the old windshield out of his bus to Homer.  About 3 months ago at Herb's insistance, I finally got a seal.  Well, yesterday I pulled the old windshield out and was really supprised to find that there was only heavy surface rust and NO HOLES under the old seal!  A little steel wool and elbow grease and a coat of rust converter took care of that, then I added a couple of coats of simi-flat black Krylon Rust paint.  I didn't worry about smoothing out the pitting even though you can see some of it around the edge of the seal . . . guess that will knock me out of a few points when I show it, but oh well, it just looked like too much work.    

I let everything dry over night and a few minutes ago Joy and I put the new windshield in.  I thought I'd give it shot without any kind of lubrication on the seal because the paint was only a few hours old . . . well, we got it in first try with no problems!  It wasn't near as hard as I've heard.  In fact, I think that a curved windshield on a Super Beetle is much harder to install.

Maybe this will slow down (or maybe even stop) the water running over the wiring under the dash and Homer will stop being haunted by electrical gobblins.  If nothing else, at least I won't have to look through a cracked windshield when I'm  driving into the sun . . . and this one is tinted to boot!

PS:  Anthony, Thanks for the windshield!  Herb, Thanks for hooking me up with the $15 West Coast Metric seal and bugging the crap out of me until I finally installed it!   :cool:

How long have you had it?  You have to let the seal age at least 3 months before you can use it!    

Let me know when you get ready to change it.  I'll be glad to help.

Yeah, Joy told me about that . . . she said she realized who it was just as you pulled away.  I was in the paint department trying to find something to cover up the stain Joy had put on the new privacy fence the weekend before . . . it was supposed to be a dark blue-gray, but on the fence it turned out more like a Smurf blue.   :cool:

One day I will also need your help,  Chip has more than a chip in the windshield it has sprend probably 6 inches now.

That sounds like a good idea.  I would have to "discover" the extent of the rust underneath my windshield.  It doesn't look like anything more than a surface to mild pitting type of rust, but who knows.  Depending on how I do the prep work and paint, we might be able to do it in one afternoon (all day). :: I might even offer up my garage for a lighted and shady spot!  That way, if I have to do extensive rust repair, I wouldn't have to go somewhere without a front windshield in...I would already be at the "shop"!  I could even have the work done before the day of the session.

I bought the seals either from RMM or JC Whitney a few years ago.  Hopefully that's a long enough wait...but hopefully not too long.

I missed out on the pushrod tube seal replacement session.  I would like to get with some who know how to do it, coupled with those who still need to do it, and get it done.

Looks more like a "Clark" than a "Homer" to me... ::