A lot more work on the windshield in the last couple of days, including side retainers and prep for painting the glare shield and cabin roof under the windshield. The first photo shows the windshield's left side retainer being fitted. Ideally, the front edge of the retainer should be even with the slanting metal edge inside. The end of the fiberglass retainer still needs to be trimmed to match the rear edge of the side retainer. After the side retainers were done, the windshield was liberated from all the tape that's been holding it down for more than a month, and removed.

The second photo shows prep of the cabin roof section that will be under the windshield for painting The prep procedure takes a lot of elbow grease, first using Scotchbrite to clean up the surfaces, including cleanning tightly around each rivet, then blowing the dust out of all the rivet mandrels, etc., with compressed air, and finally cleanup with acetone. Then the top retainer was put in place, a large Sharpie was used to mark the rear edge, and masking tape was applied to just cover the ink line. By painting up to that line, there should be "perfect" paint coverage under, but not beyond the retainer. Similar technique is used to mark the other edges.

The third photo shows the glare shield (dash, in auto terms) prep done. Here the front fiberglass retainer is temporarily back in place so that its front edge can be marked. The black mark line is just visible in the bottom center of the photo, along the outer edge. The glare shield will be painted up to that line. Shooting for paint job on Monday, and might make it.