Door window/regulator removal

Next up is getting the windows and related hardware out of the doors.

A shot of the tray that holds the bottom of the door glass. Removing the two screws frees up the glass - sorta. In this case, the 50+ year old rubber bits that wrap around the bottom of the glass, surrounding the areas where the mount holes are, has congealed into some sort of super-sticky substance. So instead of being able to simply lift the glass out, each piece takes a good ten or fifteen minutes of work, wiggling back and forth, up and down, etc. to get the rubber to release its death grip. Grr. :(

A shot of the tray, once the rubber has been defeated. Remnants of the struggle remain.

Next task is to pull the glass upwards by hand, and jam a rubber doorstop in to hold it in place, while I remove the regulator hardware.

The regulators are attached with four bolts - that's it.

But, one has to remove two other bolts, holding one of the vertical guide rails in place - here...

...and here. Once this rail is free, the arm from the regulator to the tray can be slipped between the guide rail and the door frame, and the regulator removed.

The process for the rear door is the same, except the guide rail to be freed up has three bolts instead of two, and is to the rear of the car as opposed to the front, as is the case with the front doors.

A pair of window regulators - front door on top, rear door on bottom.


The nice thing I'm discovering about working on the doors - unlike most tasks with this car, it's repetitive - so once you figure it out for one door, the other three doors go much quicker!