Tips to repair flat truck/trailer windshields

[Windshield Guy]

Can anyone help pls? Thanks.

[johnnyone]

I Try To Stay Away From These Types Of Trucks, They Are Dirty And You Are Up High, Trying To Balance Your Self.
If You Must, Get A Ladder And Use Extra Resin In The Injector...

[GlassStarz]

Some trucks and buses you can fold back the hood stand on the tire others lean in from the ladder. at 6'4" not a problem for me but some of the shorter people it might be. Use a injector that isnt too heavy for the suction cup a front loader is a plus as well (I use the LR injector exlusivly when doing the flat ones)

[CPR]

Pull open the hood and see if you can reach the break while standing on the front tire, I got an inch over GlassStars and have done some that were real hard to reach. I would not go past the front tire, it's real easy to loose your footing in there.

[Sneck]

Yeah, be real careful about what you stand on when you have the front of the truck opened up. It is pretty easy to stand on a battery box and have your weight bend the lid enough to short out the battery. I didn't do that, but if I hadn't of noticed what it was that I was about to stand on, it could have happened.

There is no doubt about it, these bigger trucks are awkward to work on. You almost need to have some sort of windshield repair techs (batman suit) where all your tools and gizmos can be stored on your body as you climb around on these trucks like some kind of monkey.

Hey, that gives me an idea... my mother is a very good industrial seamstress and she could make us all up some cool looking wsr batman suits and get the patent on it and make a fortune.

But then we would have to get Delta Kits involved and change the names on some of the equipment that we will need to out-fit our wsr bat-man suits...

You know for sure we are going to need a bat-bridge and bat-injector, and of course the bat-resin. We'll need some other equipment too - like bat-film and a bat-uv lamp. Oh, and how can I forget the bat-drill and the bat-bits, the bat-dryout, and the bat mirror, and the bat-probe.

We need to look somewhat inconspicuous, so we may need to wear special bat-goggles and bat-gloves which are a good thing to have so we can protect our eyes and hands from the bat-resin.

Well, maybe it's not such a good idea. We might get our bat-butts sued, and then we would have to pay out some pretty big bat-fines.

[repare-brise]

Will the bat wasr tech be able to get out of this terrible bind, will his perky assistant be able to get down from the air-cleaner of the nasty freightliner? To find out the answers to these questions tune in next week to the same bat forum, at the same bat time at the same bat Ip address...............

But seriously, I do trucks regularly, first charge a litlle more for the trouble, second you can stand on the motor(ask first), to get there ask the driver the best route. As far as injectors go get one that can hold it's resin when vertical(I use Glass Mechanix, but others will work as well). If you are doing a large fleet with a good number of trucks to de, bring an assistant along to pass you the required tools and accessories as you work.

Merci

[GlassStarz]

also they make a cool little stool that hooks over the wheel

[Repair1]

A good bottom fill injector works the best (novus style)

Brian

[Repair1]

Personally I stay away from the big trucks as much as I can my knees just hate climbing on those tall %#$@&%$*&. But I understand when starting out every little bit counts I have done them in the past. Just don

[Windshield Guy]

[quote="Repair1"]Personally I stay away from the big trucks as much as I can my knees just hate climbing on those tall %#$@&%$*&. But I understand when starting out every little bit counts I have done them in the past. Just don