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Subject:Re: loose driver's side window question
From:Larry Alofs
Date:Tue, 12 Aug 2014 08:02:43 -0400

I just encountered this on a '91 I'm working on.  One of the windows
wiggled around too much, fore and aft.  When I looked at the other side I
saw the pad.  To me it looked like hard slick plastic, not felt, so I
replaced the missing one with a stick-on furniture glider of that type of
material.  I hope it stays stuck.

Larry A.

On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 5:41 AM, Frank Condelli <RAlanen@aol.com> wrote:

>         To expand upon this a bit more.  That felt pad Stacy is writing
> about is to the rear of the door, inside, just below the track where the
> window rides.  Most likely that felt pad is gone.  There is a hole in the
> sheet metal brace in there where that felt pad is supposed to be.  It takes
> up the space that’s allowing the window to rock back and forth and rub on
> the metal brace.  You can use any suitable soft material to take up this
> space, just glue it in there with some GOOP so it will stay in place as the
> window slides on it.  BTW, you're going to have to remove the door panel
> and plastic vapour barrier to see this.
>
>
> On Aug 12, 2014, at 12:00 AM, Automatic digest processor <
> LISTSERV@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> wrote:
>
> >    There is supposed to be a felt button at the back of the door where
> the w=
> > indows rests when down . If you look there is a hole in the door where
> the b=
> > umper goes
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Frank Condelli
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