more parts to remove

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  1. Tomcats90

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    Dose anyone know if there's a way to remove the chrome without removing the windows? from the rear/front and side windows
    details help very much thank you guys
     

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    are you planning to reuse it?
     
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    Yes I am gotta reuse them their solid and in good shape haha haha
     
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    71gold Frank Cooper Supporting Member

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    I have never been able to remove them without buggering them up...:slap:
     
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    You'll need the proper window moulding clip tool to catch and take the tension off the clips. Start at one end and slowly work your way across. The ones around the window frame on the doors are overlapped at the top back corner of the door. Bend the tiny tab out, and use an old manual can opener with electrical tape wrapped around the rounded part. Using the can opener, pry from the outer edge of the trim, doing the top part first. The ones along the bottom of the door windows will have small capped nuts on the ends. I have used a 2" wide putty knife to gently release the chrome trim from the plastic clips that are locked onto metal pins welded to the door and quarter. Do the windshield from the top down. There are screws at the A-pillars that hold the bottom pieces of trim on. At the rear window, the lower two pieces unscrew from the body when the trunk is open.

    Use the can opener trick for the drip rail molding, too. I have done this on several cars and never bent a piece... Go slow and don't force anything.

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    Thanks you guys...still a little scared on the windshields but doors I feel good about (y)
     

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