touque

Picked up a new window roller and pin (thanks Roger) since my original one broke off during a two day cold spell.

Installed it onto the arm with no issues, but am having a hell of a time getting it into the channel/guide on the window. Are there any tips that could help? Window fully up doesn’t work as it’s too high. Window all the way down doesn’t work either as you can’t get your hands in there. Guessing somewhere in the middle closer to the top?

Window ‘arm’ fully extended? Retracted? Somewhere in the middle?

Arghh....

Mrmerlin

Best bet post pictures of your repair

touque

Not sure what I can show Stan, other than a picture of the door



I am referring to a way to get the roller #4 into the channel/slot that’s at the bottom of the window. I am trying to reassemble things. Once I get it in the slot, I can bolt #1 to the door and button things up...

Rob Edwards

I'd put the roller about 1/2 to 2/3 of the way up, the trick (IIRC) is to angle the window sharply downaward in front and install it from the outside of the door, nose down. Put a big double thick strip of tape on the rear of the window opening to protect the trim from the edge of the glass. With the glass angled, you can get the roller in the channel, and then rotate the glass to horizontal.

touque

Thanks Rob. As she sits now, the window and vertical bar (#8) are all fixed into their final position, and I was hoping to avoid freeing the glass. Probably why I can’t get it to work...

FredR

When I put that assembly back together I jam the window into the fully closed position and push the roller into the slot and then fasten the quadrant assembly. If you still have the quadrant bolted to the door try undoing it first.

Apologies if I am missing something.

awilli6

I just did the fix when installing a window motor. Do what Fred said above. Loosen the window motor but don’t remove all bolts.

touque

My problem is that I can’t find the correct angle to push the roller into the slot. I have the quadrant assembly (if you’re referring to #1 in the diagram) fully unbolted, figuring it would give me more room to maneuver it around to get things to line up.

Perhaps I have to loosely put it in place as per what awilli6 said - hmmm.

Mrmerlin

a picture will assist in a remedy

Flinstigator

I just did this repair as well. I put the window all the way up and wedged a piece of hard foam in the back to keep the window from sliding. The regulator was unbolted and the arm was positioned to be in the up position as well so that the arm/roller were close to where they needed to be without having to move the window that much to get it into the slot. It went in pretty easy since they were almost aligned. I put the regulator screws in by hand by shifting the window slightly and removed the foam. I did have to align the bolt holes a little bit by adjusting the window up/down slightly with the switch. Once all of the screws were in I tightening everything down.

Mrmerlin

a picture of your roller installation would be helpful to see what your work looks like

touque

thanks everyone - I FINALLY got this to go, somehow, by sheer luck or I had my mouth 'just right'. Come here and see flin and I did it roughly the same, with the window all the way up and the motor/arm almost as high as it would go. I sure don't want to do it again as I really think I just got lucky, rather than figured out anything. I hate it when I can't reproduce things, but right now I'll take it.

So I have a window that goes up and down, although not smoothly, so I'll have to research that now (it was smooth before). Those door edges are sure sharp, haha, as I have a ton of cuts/scrapes/marks all over my hands (not that I'm a hand model and need them to be pretty lol). Just a little blood and I'll take them as character marks.

Crossing fingers the passenger side will stay good for now. The next time we get to freezing (probably next year at this point), I won't touch the window controls...

:cheers