Wednesday, April 27, 2016

How to door and window assy

Started putting the drivers side door and new seals back together
The B got a full window seal set  I put a smear of copper anti seize on all nuts bolts and window winder - thing works like buttah!
so first things first-

1  Rivet on the outer horizontal window seal w 1/8" rivets.  Start on one side and work to the other placing rivets through seal and door holes before riveting. This way you know it lines up.
2  Remove the nut off the spring on the bottom of the wing window, set aside the 2 washers, spring, and nut.
3  Remove the wing window and seal noting how it seats around the removeable lower front part.
4  I used pb blaster silicone (white\green can - safe for rubber) to help with seating the new seal.
5  Insert lower wing window long stud through new gasket into lower frame, then line up upper bullet hinge

6  Put the washer, spring, washer, and nut back on the window stud.  Tighten to nearly fully compressed spring. This will keep it from flopping while driving.
7  Remove and replace felt track in wing window long track.  I used a couple shots of spray glue to keep it from sliding.
8  Put on door to wing window lower seal and insert assembly into top of the door. 
There are (2) 7/16" bolts that go through the 2 holes in the front of the door into the assy. ( they have plastic covers )  Have a magnet or something- they will fall in....
There is a stud on the lower part of the track that inserts through an adjustable block for stability, put on nuts but leave lightly loose for now.
AND there are (2) 3/8" nuts and bars that clamp upwards to the door through the upper front of the inside skin.  Whew!
9   Having fun yet?
10  Roll DOWN the window crank assembly and insert through the back side of the door.  It fits, don't fight it too much. Kinda shaped like a butcher cleaver when down.

11  With the winder part pointed down and forward to the inside of the front lower wing track and the back side raised, insert the glass track onto the rollers.  This will take some juggling...
12  Move entire window/ winder assembly into position and loosely bolt on.  4 on front winder, 3 on rear support.
13  Congrats, that's the hard part.
14  The rear track gets new felt like the front- push the window into the front felt track and the rear track gets inserted carefully through the top into place at a 20* angle with a screw holding it in place up top and a similar adjustment block arrangement on the bottom.
15  Tighten winder assy bolts.
16   Install a new bump pad at the bottom over the hooks, I used a thin but dense packing foam so the window would roll all the way down....

Now, after glue dries some, you can wind up the window, and screw/bolt down the tracks so the window doesn't bounce back and forth and doesn't bind up.  Near the winder there is a stud in the door with a 1/2" nut- this adjusts the up travel stop of the window.

Congrats- you have one more to do that will take half the time....

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