8.3.1. Removal of a windshield
Disconnect a negative wire from the rechargeable battery. 
Remove the following elements: 
– the windshield screen wiper lever with a brush; 
– front guard lattice; 
– rear-view mirror; 
– the rain sensor (Cars with automatic system of cleaning of a windshield); 
– overlay of a forward rack; 
– antisolar peak; 
– mate lamp. 
Take aside a roof upholstery. 
Apply a protective tape on edge of the case. 
Apply a protective tape on the dashboard to exclude its damage. 
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 Fig. 8.38. Lines of a cut of a sealant of a windshield 
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Cut off a windshield fringing ledge the razor (fig. 8.38).
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 NOTE 
Cars with automatic system of cleaning of a windshield have the sensor which is built in a windshield. If the sensor fails, it has to be replaced together with a windshield. After initial setup of the sensor of a rain it cannot be used with other sensor of automatic system of cleaning of a windshield therefore the rain sensor also has to be replaced with new.  
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Reuse of a windshield 
Remove a basis. 
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 Fig. 8.39. Lines of a cut of a sealant of a windshield 
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Cut off a sealant on glass perimeter, using a stripper of a sealant (fig. 8.39).
Extend a sealant. 
Remove a windshield. 
Reuse of a windshield 
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 NOTE 
Before removal of a windshield mark the provision of glass a tape naleivaniye on a windshield and panels of a body.  
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 Fig. 8.40. An opening in a sealant 
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Pricker make an opening in a sealant working from interior of the car (fig. 8.40).
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 Fig. 8.41. Installation of a string 
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Pass the special device (string) through an opening, having cut off it to the necessary length (fig. 8.41).
Wind the ends of special adaptation (string) around cores.
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 NOTE 
Cut a sealant working with adaptation as a saw, the string has to work on all length to prevent its break owing to a local overheat.  
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 Fig. 8.42. Cutting of a sealant 
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Holding one end of special adaptation (string) and extending another, cut off a sealant on windshield perimeter.
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 NOTE  
As the top part of a pin is pasted to a sealant, cut off it special adaptation (string).  
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Cut out pins.
Remove a windshield. 
Mark provisions of pins and remove pins from a windshield. 
Remove a windshield fringing.