Anyone replace CJ-2A glass, only?

Early this week I flopped my 47 2A, with 35s in the air. It landed upside down in a dry creek bed, and the windshield and my head landed too hard on some rocks.

I'll heal, but my windshield won't. The windshield frame is intact, and straight, well as straight as it's been for 40+ years, anyway. What I'd like to be able to do is get a glass man to replace only the glass.

Has anyone any experience or suggestions as to if this would work, and if it can even be done? Maybe an idea of cost before I have to educate a glass man who will say huh, when I say CJ-2A or 1947.

TIA,

Ken

 

I would use speedglass if your wheeling like that, it is not DOT approved, but I don't think the original windows carried the stampings anyway, and if your hit in an accident hard enough to shatter the W/S your screwed anyway on the street.

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glad to hear you are okay
I would take the frame with you to the glass shop, that way they can see what they are working with.
They will also just cut the glass to size and install it.
I would guesstimate $100 - $200 range for a price.
Even if both didn't break, I would update both to safety glass; don't know if yours was still original glass or not.

 

I just had new glass put into my m38, it was $60 not including the gasket.

 

Yup...mine was around $75 back in 2004. I'm running an M38 frame on my 2A as well. I provided the new seal and Portland Glass cut and installed new windshield glass (DOT glass, not single layer like others offered). They didn't even bat an eye, and had it done the same day.

Good luck...and keep it rubber side down...

 

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Ok here is the funny story about mine, yes it is saftey glass. So I brought the frame up, the guy looks at it says did you bring the old glass, I said no I forgot it but can go get it, he said let me check upstairs I might have a pattern. he comes come with and old windshield, that funny thing is this windshield was the one I had him replace in my old cj3a, just thought it was funny.

 

Yes, it is/was safety glass... it just spider webbed, but you can see the indents where the rocks pooched it out.. The entire both sides are major history, but no glass left the frames.

And to the rest of the great advise in this thread, I hugely appreciate that.

Now I'm off to edumacate a glass man, with frame in hand. And with fingers crossed.

Oh, and thanks for the get well wishes. I hurt like 7734, hard to chew, 7 inch scabs from my ear up to my (balding) head. But I'll be back wheeling extreme in a couple weeks. A 68 year old has gotta do it sometime!

Ken