Re: Wile Family's Second Packard

Posted by HH56 On 2013/10/28 11:19:27

The vent window side is fairly fixed. Very little fore/aft motion there. The window rear should have the narrow edge chrome or stainless piece on the glass which rides in the lower rear track.

There should be a narrow width fuzzy to fit the chrome piece pressed and maybe riveted inside the main rear U channel support. That main channel has pieces welded on and has screws to the brackets inside the door for tilt and side to side adj. Brackets and complete assy should be able to slide fore and aft in the slots in inner door panel to bring it up to the window.

The welded on brackets were a source of issue with welds breaking. If you can't slide everything forward enough to catch the window, it might be a good idea to make sure they are not loose or bent or was not broken at some point and poorly repaired.

If all that looks good, I don't know if it's possible the way the pieces are welded on but any chance the brackets are screwed onto the wrong side of the welded pieces or the U channel is upside down or pieces were swapped so wrong side piece is installed? Any of those might account for the 1/2" loss.