With Blake’s assistance, the rear window was positioned on the turtle deck skins and roll bar … after some fussing around, we were finally able to get the holes in alignment so screws could be inserted. Admittedly, I did not put any fuel tank sealant on the rear window in the area of the fuel tank’s filler neck. My thoughts on this are … Van’s now has the new Plexiglas window available which was not available at the time the finishing kit was ordered. The Plexiglas is preferable because it won’t craze when (not a matter of if) fuel gets on it. However, figured may as well use the polycarbonate window that was shipped with the kit until it begins having issues with crazing … at which time, it will be very easy to remove since it will not be glued in place with hard to remove fuel tank sealant. The molded Plexiglas window is my preference.
Blake pushing down on the rear window to seat it onto the roll bar which
helped align the holes as I inserted screws.
Basically, after placing screws in all the holes, the screws were drawn tight in two steps. Blake turned the nuts on the inside of the baggage area with a nut driver until he felt the resistance change as I held a Philips screwdriver on the screw heads on the outside. Once all the screws were somewhat snug, a second pass was made using fingertip snugness so as to not create any cracks in the window.
Completed instillation of the RV-12’s rear window.
