Passenger side window allignment

[txdmc]

Picked up a new passenger side window regulator today. While I was in there I checked to make sure my glass was tracking ok. The glass would not seat all the way to the rear of the seal with the fixed glass track. I pulled the drop glass and tracks to check everything, when I put the glass in with no tracks I can seat it in the window just fine. Is there an adjustment issue or is it a carrier issue with the glass being misaligned? Just looking for some advice before it put it all back together.

[May81DeLorean]

My thinking on the vertical metal tracks is that they serve very little purpose and they should not be rigid - when the drop glass is in the UP position, it should be the large glass window that determines where the drop-glass is seated, and when the drop-glass is in the DOWN position, it does not bother me where in the door cavity the drop-glass is sitting. As you mentioned, when your drop-glass is installed with no tracks, it was seating just fine in the UP position.

When I was having problems with my drop-glass not seating correctly, I came onto the forum and noticed people mentioning lubrication and even saw videos of some people completely removing the drop-glass from the car and repositioning the drop-glass within the two white plastic carriers. My thinking on that, is that lubrication is only being used to cover up the fact that too much friction is being created, and the friction is being created from the rigid vertical metal tracks rubbing against the white plastic carrier, and that the white plastic carrier can jump off the vertical metal track if there is too much friction. Especially with temperature changes and metal/plastic possibly expanding or contracting or the bumps of a car going 65mph down the road while your finger is on the window switch, there is no need to have the drop-glass sitting on a rigid track.

I went to the hardware store and spent $5 and solved my problem in 10 minutes, I removed the rivet of the vertical metal track and replaced the rivet with a small clevis pin and compression spring, I now let the drop-glass determine where the vertical track goes, I no longer allow the vertical metal track dictate to the drop-glass where the drop glass goes. Since the top of the drop glass has rounded corners and is tapered, it will find its way into the large glass by itself - it does not need the metal tracks forcing it where to go.

When my drop-glass now goes up and down, it moves faster and the vertical metal track is allowed to move side to side, there is no rubbing sound or friction created.

In the below picture, where the screwdriver blade is positioned while testing it out, that gap in the center of the pin is now where the metal track resides along with the other piece of metal that the track adjoins to. Since the clevis pin has a few holes in it and since the compression spring has a bit of travel, it allows the installer to determine how much travel they want to afford the metal track. I let my track move 1/4 inch or so.
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