Back Window Replacement (Seville)

FIGURE 2 - Bonnet Assembly:

Removal:

1. Cover rear of vehicle to protect paint.

2. Install protective cover over rear seat back to back window trim panel.

3. If back window is intact, tape glass to avoid scratching.

4. Remove rear quarter belt moldings by prying the push-in retainers from the barrel nuts (10 and 11, Figure 2).

5. If back window is heated, disconnect feed and ground wires.
6. Using a flat-bladed tool, carefully loosen adhesive bond securing fabric cover to fiberglass cap along edge of right and left quarter panel to expose rivets that secure fiberglass cap to body.

7. Starting at rear end of side roof rail, use a hook tool; inserted between fabric cover material and roof panel, to carefully pull material flap from under fiberglass cap along entire length of side roof rail.

8. Repeat step 7 on opposite side of car.

9. Using a 1/8" (3.2 mm) drill bit with an adjustable stop set at maximum drilling depth of 1/2" (12 mm), drill and remove all exposed rivets around perimeter of bonnet assembly.

10. Using a flat-bladed tool, carefully loosen any remaining cement bond that exists between fiberglass cap and body.

11. Prop up rear portion of cap assembly to gain access to back window assembly.

12. Remove screws securing backlight lower extension to body and remove extension (13, Figure 2).

13. Remove and replace back window using conventional method as outlined in the Fisher Body Service Manual.
Installation:

1. Install backlight lower extension to body.

2. Remove prop from under bonnet assembly and place bonnet in its installed position.

3. Use hand pressure to seat cap assembly to roof panel.

4. Starting at front of car and working rearward, rivet cap to roof panel assembly. Repeat procedure on opposite side.

NOTICE: All rivet heads must be flush with the fiberglass cap and free of burrs to prevent highlighting of rivet head through the vinyl cover material. Carefully file or grind rivet heads as required.

5. Apply adhesive around perimeter of vinyl cover and fiberglass cap.

6. Firmly "slick" top material to fiberglass cap. Material must be free of all wrinkles and draws.

7. Using a headlining inserting tool, tuck top material flap under fiberglass cap along right and left side roof rail.

8. Check quarter panel belt molding nuts and retainers. Replace any damaged nuts or retainers as required.
9. Install body caulking compound over all molding attaching nuts to prevent water entry into body.

10. Install all previously removed moldings.

11. Clean top assembly as required.

12. Remove all previously installed protective covers and tape from vehicle.