Targe bar pad removal, Am i missing something? Options

[JamesM]

I am removing the targa bad pad from one of my cars and i don't remember it being such a pain on some of the other ones i have done, feels like it might have been glued on from the underside. Is there a screw or something else i missing here? I have removed all the screws along the front and underside as well as the plates that go over the latches but this thing still does not want to budge.

Any ideas before i take to it with brute force?

[pcar916]

I feel your pain. My window glass was flappin' in the breeze and very noisy. Plus the glass is going to a friend who's building a car for his nephew so it's going to a good home. Now I'm not a glass guy but I found it attached with odd stuff... odd to me that is.

It was installed with a very "regular" strip of rubber that had a cable going through it all the way around. Other than that it was unable to hold in the glass for more than 15 years, it looked like a good thing. The PO had used silicon on the top of the glass when it started to let go but it was "well done" on only about 10% of the edge and stayed well away from the pads.

I'd still look for a stray screw unless you've shoved a wire or probe into the targa bar.