My driver's window decided to come out of its x-brace tracks yesterday, resulting in a window that rolled up completely crooked. Motor is fine, have torn into the door already a couple times before and actually adjusted that x-brace track last month because it was lose (just adjusted again, I think more correctly/horizontally, window now fixed for now). But the nut/bolt assy. that slides through these appears to be some odd square-drive unit that can't be adjusted. The nut looks like it might, but there's no way to adjust- the other end is inside the track and one of those domed-over washer type heads so no way to get a wrench on that end to provide counterpressure. The 3 of 4 nuts that I can see (4th closest to speaker, can't see) are still largely flush with the end of the bolt but have a ton of margin to the brace arm and appear like they could be tightened (aren't easily loosened either). The window coming down make a loud metallic *THUNK* as one of the x-brace arms jumps down the bolt, eases on the way up. Can these be tightened and how? What gives, literally? Nothing on Clark's, here that I could find easily, and I'm conveniently missing this chapter out of my workshop manual so I can't RTFM.

 

FWIW, they're the bolts on the ends of the cross-brace, #13, below. They're not even labeled in what appears to be the workshop manual! I can't find anything on these stupid things. I've got the window working, but with all its clunkiness, I'm worried about using it much until I can find a way to tighten them. My current thought is finding an IKEA-grade thin wrench to stick in there for counterpressure and see if I can tighten these up...

 

The bolts you are referring to are rollers, which should turn freely and are not adjustable. On my 1987 NA the clunk was caused by a worn out gear on the end of the X arm. I bought a used window regulator assembly which corrected the problem.

 

Ok thanks, Keith.

 

My windows clunked bad so I took the door panel off to take a look. What I found was all of the bolts that hold the regulator to the inner door panel were loose and the holes were worn out (larger). Also one of the motor/regulator ears is broken off completely so it's got one less bolt than stock. I was able to tighten everything up with new bolts and washers, and I added a bit of Loctite for good measure.

 

Hey Matt- so you disassembled the entire door and took the regulator assembly out? Where did you get replacement bolts? Loctite would be a great idea for these.

 

No. In my car, the 4 bolts that hold the regulator assembly to the inner door panel were all loose and the holes were all stretched larger. I took the bolts out one-at-a-time and replaced them with new bolts and larger washers. My entire motor/regulator unit was clunking around so much before I fixed it, I thought the window was going to fall out every time I rolled it up and down. This little fix tightened it up nicely.

 

I have the same problem. Everything appears to be working fine except at the point where these "rollers" cause the window to move off track. I am wondering if there is a way to allow them to turn freely but not wobble. I am going to try to fuse the center or reattach. I will post later with results.

 

Ok thanks- will look forward to that. Don't mess up!

 

Is there maybe a plastic washer that goes inside there to tighten it up? Maybe it completely wore away.

 

Hrmm, not to my knowledge. But something like that might work. It'd be even better if one radius were cut so they could slip in...