[Roadsters] door glass rear rail replacement

[Tom @ Datsun2000]

Jeremy,

I found my rear glass guide laying in the bottom of the door.

The angle brackets that mount the guide to the door are held in place by two
phillips head screws you will find on the end of the door.  These brackets
have a nasty habit of breaking off at the hard 90 degree bend from the door
to the guide.

In my case I used a triangle magnet to hold the two halves of the mounting
bracket together and welded them back together.  Once you do this (I might
even suggest welding the brackets that have not broken yet) your rear glass
guide will stay in place.

The bend in the bracket is a very hard 90 degree bend with little or no
radius in the bend.  There is a lot of stress on the metal.  Vibration
breaks the metal at the bend.  Welding the bend will relieve the stress and
make the part stronger than it was to begin with.

Tom
69 2000 - Mr. Hyde
Portland
http://www.datsun2000.com
http://www.nowroc.org

On 5/30/2009 11:00:17 AM, jeremy mayne (jeremymayne at msn.com) wrote:
> In trying to figure out why my driver side door glass would fall out of
> the
> track at the front I discovered it's missing the rear track that runs
inside
> the door.  Does anyone out there have a decent used rear track for the
driver
> side window for a high windshield model (1970 specifically)?  Thanks,
>
>
>
> Jeremy Mayne
>
> 70 SPL stroker
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