Ventilator/fixed door window glass removal

Now to removed the smaller, fixed windows from the doors. First up is the driver's door ventilator window. On this one, I had already previously removed the rubber seal, but that doesn't affect removing the whole assembly.

Once one screw across the top of the door frame, and two screws across the bottom (one mount visible in photo below) are removed, it's a matter of tugging the whole assembly straight back a bit, and then tilting it so the top of the assembly tips backwards. The trick to this is pushing down on a protruding tab, so it clears an obstacle. (Tab visible a couple of photos down, on the removed assembly.)

After the top is clear, it's a matter of getting the cylindrical piece seen below to clear the door frame. It took some wiggling to get this to free up.

Front ventilator assembly removed. At some point I'll be disassembling this whole thing to clean it up and get parts rechromed.


One thing I noticed while working on these windows - there is a tab-like piece that rises near the window latch, that is used to secure the latch itself - on the driver's side, this piece has broken off entirely. So that'll need replacing. I'll probably be able to find someone on the Ponton list that has a spare they're willing to part with, or perhaps my neighbor Ernie has one in good shape from the Ponton that he recently cannibalized.

The front door, devoid of glass.

The rear door glass pieces are fixed - and require a different method to remove. First, the chrome strip that the run channel fits into must be removed. (Residue from the adhesive that held the run channel is visible here.) This piece is removed by removing two screws across the top of the door frame, and then pushing the trim piece downwards until the strip can be freed from the screw holding the bottom in place by pushing it so that the wider hole aligns with the screw.

Trim piece removed, with a better view of the area the screw and the bottom of the trim.

The glass pane removed. On the driver's side, again, I had already wrestled what was left of the rubber seal out beforehand. The passenger side rear glass removal was a bit more difficult, as it involved wrestling the glass out while overcoming the grip the old rubber had on the door frame, and NOT breaking the glass in the process. Whew.

Driver's side of the car, now a deglassified zone.