Yes, yes, I've done the search on this board about this, but really couldn't find the answer to my problem...

Okay, we have a 1988 240 with a badly pitted windshield. We're driving this car, and the pitting is really bad especially if you drive into the sun.
We also have a 1985 240 that is going to the junkyard very soon, and we had a local shop install a BRAND new windshield, several years before it was retired, so it's still like new.

I'd like to have the 85 one put in the 88. Yes, I know they will fit, and actually, I've removed windshields from older cars (like in air-cooled VW's - where no glue was involved) - by cutting and destroying the gasket from the donar car. I've also installed dry windshields before with some success, but if there's glue involved, I'm a little hesitant.

So, my questions are: Does a Volvo screen use a dry gasket, or do they use glue? It looks like they do, or at least the windshield guys who put in the 85 one _thought_ they do (maybe they're just used to doing newer cars in general, with flush, glued-in glass).

I figure that the pitted 88 windshield will break upon removal (which the shop would purposely do to rescue the gasket), but I'm worried that the 85 screen could break as well (if it's glued)- or even worse, break when the shop putting it in. If I cut away all traces of the gasket, should it come out allright? Unfortunately I can't bring both cars to the glass place and have them do it (the 85 is non-running)

And no, I'm not interested in installing a late-240 flush windscreen, because the whole point of doing this is to save the brandy-new non pitted '85 screen. If I just replaced the 88 screen (which is pitted, but still legal) with a used late 240 screen, there'd be no guarantee that it wouldn't be somewhat pitted too.

-Bricky