Gotta a prob, folks. I'm changing out my passenger window that mysteriously cracked while down one day recently. I've done this same window twice before with not much sweat. The first time, I put it in backwards cause I flipped the channel over once while I was putting it together, and had to break it to get it out. But both times I installed those panes they went in the way they should. Tight, but with a little pounding with the rubber beater, they went in. Well, for some reason this time the glass does NOT want to seat into the channel. I wire wheeled it and scraped it with a screwdriver. Then I oiled it, and the tape, too. I've had the thing on my bench vice for an hour, plus even pulled the wife in to tell me all the things I was doing wrong.
I went back and used flat head screwdriver and tried to ever-so-slightly run out any tight spots down the channel. Just awhile ago, I had the front end of the glass down the full channel depth, and the back one half way in, and I said screw it!. But by the time I got out to the truck were my oil was to wet the tape, I noticed the pane had worked it's way back up to the initial stopping point of the effort. Just to be clear, I started out with the vise jaws on the bottom 1/8" of the glass channel, but then switched to the running rail frame and that's when I spread the channel with the driver. Anyway, I am just disgusted that a job I said would take 45 minutes due to 'previous experience' has taken all afternoon, and STILL isn't done! So, what do you guys think? Has this ever happened to anybody else? What am I not seeing here??
