Heated Glass Element: Service and Repair

Removal
1. Remove battery cover and disconnect ground cable from battery terminal. Service and Repair
2. Remove rear seat cushion. Refer to Body and Frame, Seats. Seats
3. Remove rear seat squab. Refer to Body and Frame, Seats. Seats
4. Remove rear quarter cappings.
5. Remove rear quarter casings.






6. Disconnect harness connectors from backlight heater terminals.
7. Remove carpet from convertible top stowage compartment.







8. Slacken and remove nuts securing squab panel stiffener bracket to BIW and remove bracket from vehicle.







9. Slacken and remove headlining rear header rail clip securing nuts, remove clips and release tension cables.
10. Exercising care to avoid damage to top, use a plastic or similarly soft lever to remove backlight seal.







11. Apply masking tape around backlight aperture up to glass edge to protect top and liner.
12. Prepare cheese wire and cutting handle.
Position cutting handle central tube fully upwards in handle.
Pass one end of a length of cheese wire through handle tube and locating aperture.
Move cutting handle central tube fully downwards to secure cheese wire.







13. Using a pointed tool, penetrate backlight Betaseal at lower central position, ensuring that contact is not made with fabric or glass.







14. Remove tool, pass free end of cheese wire through penetration and fit second cutting handle.







15. With assistance, use cheese wire to cut around the backlight glass, exercising particular care at corners to avoid damage to fabric and glass.







16. Fit lifting handles to glass and with assistance, carefully remove backlight from vehicle and place on clean cloth on bench.
17. Remove lifting handles from backlight glass.
18. Remove cheese wire cutting tool from vehicle, separate handles by moving center tubes upwards and discard cheese wire.
19. Exercising care to avoid damaging top, use a knife to remove residual Beatseal from sealing flange.
20. If original backlight is to be fitted, use a similar tool to remove residual Betaseal.
21. Remove protective masking tape from backlight aperture.

Installation
1. Fit and fully seat new rubber seal to backlight ensuring that joint is at bottom and central on glass.
2. Fit lifting handles to glass and with assistance, position it correctly in aperture and mark position with tape.
3. Remove glass from vehicle, position on bench and remove lifting handles.
4. Using Betawipe spirit, clean glass mating edge and body aperture flange.







5. Apply glass primer to mating area of glass.







6. Cut Betaseal nozzle to achieve a triangular section bead 8 mm wide by 10 mm high.







7. Using a pneumatic gun, apply a uniform bead of sealant to the glass edge, commencing at bottom center and overlapping the ends approximately 100 mm.







8. Fit backlight to aperture.
Fit lifting handles to glass and with assistance, carefully align backlight with tape markers on aperture.
Press backlight firmly into place, ensuring that rubber seal seats correctly all the way round.
9. Remove lifting handles.
10. Remove tape markers.
11. Remove protective tape from interior.