FABRICATING AND INSTALLING A FRONT WINDOW SUNSHADE

I drive home every day facing the setting sun. My sun visors don't cut it, so I decided to install a window tint sunshade on my windshield. I had sunshades on my previous trucks installed professionally, and I hated the way they looked. The shade was curved along the bottom instead of being straight. My '87 hilux was the this way.

With a curved glass, the shade needs to be fitted to the glass to get a straight bottom line. I got some brown wrapping paper, and taped it to my truck

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Then i traced an outline of the top of the front window, and cut the tracing out.

On my bench, I found the center of the tracing, and measured down 6.5 inches.I did the same thing 24 inches to either side of center. Then using a 108" steel CB whip antenna, I clamped it directly over the marks on the tracing, and scribed a line along the antenna.

I cut out the tracing, taped it to a piece of window tint, and cut the tint to size.

Installing the shade was easy, and the final result was exactly what I was looking for.

I thought I would post this just in case any of you guys want to give it a try

- JAMES