What Are You Doing To/With Your Car Today?
Last week, drivers side window dropped; the plastic prong broke. The DS door has had issues since I bought the car: the thumb button sticks, lock cylinder didn't match the keys so could only lock the passenger side from the outside; the wing window adjuster at the bottom of the channel had broke off at the spot welds so it rattled at idle. Just stuff I lived with until my window went to full time A/C. Got the lock cylinder re-keyed earlier this week. Today I lubed the door mechanism, fixed the window, re-attached the adjuster to the window channel and threw on some left over Fat Mat Rattle Trap inside the door.
Was able to reattach the window to the slider using plastic plumbing parts from Lowes. They had a plastic bushing that had an OD exactly equal to to the window hole ID. Just had to cut the length to fit.
Used #6-32 x 1/2" machine screws to attach the adjuster to the wing window channel. The screw heads are small enough to not interfere with the window.
Drilled out the spot welds; the bolt heads fit perfectly in the channel.
Not a great pic; back side of the channel showing the nuts tightened down with Thread Locker.
Last week, drivers side window dropped; the plastic prong broke. The DS door has had issues since I bought the car: the thumb button sticks, lock cylinder didn't match the keys so could only lock the passenger side from the outside; the wing window adjuster at the bottom of the channel had broke off at the spot welds so it rattled at idle. Just stuff I lived with until my window went to full time A/C. Got the lock cylinder re-keyed earlier this week. Today I lubed the door mechanism, fixed the window, re-attached the adjuster to the window channel and threw on some left over Fat Mat Rattle Trap inside the door.
Was able to reattach the window to the slider using plastic plumbing parts from Lowes. They had a plastic bushing that had an OD exactly equal to to the window hole ID. Just had to cut the length to fit.
Used #6-32 x 1/2" machine screws to attach the adjuster to the wing window channel. The screw heads are small enough to not interfere with the window.
Drilled out the spot welds; the bolt heads fit perfectly in the channel.
Not a great pic; back side of the channel showing the nuts tightened down with Thread Locker.
