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MF 500 series cab restore-improvement

  • 31-08-2016 11:11am
    #1
    tellmeabit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,006 ✭✭✭


    hi all,
    anyone have any experience with fitting a windscreen to a tractor, MF590 would be ideal!
    so ive purchased a donor cab for parts and will have to take windscreen out of one and put into another. is there something that I could have a go at or best left to experts??

    ive emailed for a few quotes to see how much windscreen repair guys would charge, so waiting on that before committing to do attempt to do it myself.
    any one ever do anything similar.


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  • #2
    Bass Reeves
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,574 ✭✭✭✭Bass Reeves


    I presume that the rubber is still intact in the one the glass is going into. The 590 are 30+ years old so the old method should work. You get a light rope and put it ito the gap in the rubber bring iy all the way around the rubber and leaving two lenghts hanging out at bottom of rubber. Now you install the bottom of the glass into the bottom of the rubber. As you then pull the rope it brings the rubbers out around the glass. You work along from both sides, around the corners, up the side, around the top corners and accross the top. Then use black sealant to make water tight.

    If you serch it on you tube you should find it being done. You will need at least one other person with you.

    Slava Ukrainii



  • #3
    mythos110
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 223 ✭✭mythos110


    Bass Reeves wrote: »
    I presume that the rubber is still intact in the one the glass is going into. The 590 are 30+ years old so the old method should work. You get a light rope and put it ito the gap in the rubber bring iy all the way around the rubber and leaving two lenghts hanging out at bottom of rubber. Now you install the bottom of the glass into the bottom of the rubber. As you then pull the rope it brings the rubbers out around the glass. You work along from both sides, around the corners, up the side, around the top corners and accross the top. Then use black sealant to make water tight.

    If you serch it on you tube you should find it being done. You will need at least one other person with you.

    Get new rubber at your local dealer (doesn't have to be MF). Its standard rubber usually. As Bass said, the rubber is 30 years old and likely after hardening so new rubber will be more flexible and easier to install.


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