Jacky Franklin's Journal

Had an interesting time today with the passenger window on my B.
It has slipped out of the lift tray on the crank mechanism several times and I have become sorta bored of babying it so today I took the door panel and water seal plastic liner off to see what was shaking.
This side had been hard to crank since the repaint and diverse hands were involved in putting bits back on so this was my first foray into this doors innards.
When I started I kinda thought I could cheat the devil somehow but such was not to be the case. The entire assembly, crank, glass and all has to come out to get this thing back in. No shortcuts exist to reinstalling a window glass fully seated and smoothly operating.
If you put the lower glass rubber and the metal it sets in outside the car things will get properly seated. You must slide the rubber into the track and then tap the track while stabilizing the window in your lap and against your belly. This will allow a full seat of the glass..real tight. just don't hit the glass instead and don't tap the metal so hard as to deform. Patient, observant progress gets you a full length level seal.
Removing the front guide to put the glass in is kinda mandatory too. I could not get the glass in the door with it in place.
You must get the glass assembly in the crank roller slots before bolting the crank assembly in. This takes a cool head and a slow hand. Then without losing what ya got position the crank assembly holes so you can start some bolts. IT CAN BE DONE.
Just leave the front and back guides hot bolted while you run the glass up and down and lock them down when done.
The hard cranking was traced to long fasteners being used where short ones should have. The short ones were there, just in the wrong holes...all better now.
Don't overlook the adjusters inside the guides, the ones that take them in and out. The door bolts just do forward and back.
As long as I had all this stuff out the door, I greased all moving pivots.