The whole piece comes out as an assembly so once the top is loose the bottom corner needs to be tilted out from under the cowl gently to remove. I ran the new tape on the inside of the length of metal and used it to help hold the bottom corner on( this is how it was before). It's held on the metal with some sort of hard adhesive and is a bitch to get off. I'd say try not to disturb the top hard piece and the bottom corner towards the cowl. Lay down the new tape Little by little close to the edge that where the rubber seal sits. Then alcohol and water solution to clean before new 3m tape. I used a full chisel and adhesive remover to scrape off the old ds tape, took several applications and passes of scraping to get clean. You'll obviously find a bunch.of gunk to clean. Be prepared to either spray or go easy with the screws some can be rusted, strips very easily. This needs to be removed to access the screws that hold in the metal windshield part. Then you can essentially just peel it off towards the front. The EPDM foam that runs the length of the inner sides of the doors when open needs to be pulled back towards the rear of truck as it hooks on the metal it presses onto back there. The weatherstripping is held to the metal piece by double sided tape that apparently lost its stickiness over the last 17 years. I noticed the other day that the rubber that meets the vertical sides of our windows was twisted at the bottom by the little corner piece down by the wiper cowl so I dug in. Figured I'd do a little write up as I didn't really see one.
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