The Stovebolt Site Forums The Shop Area Interiors '41 Side Window Removal

I've just started working on the doors as part of the restoration of my '41 3/4 ton. I took the door latch assembly off with no problem. Now I need to take the side window out of the door, but I'm not sure how it comes out of the channel. Can anyone help?

if its the same as 40 it goes like this. remove window garnish and door panel. remove the screw that holds the widow channel in place front and rear side of opening in door. youll have to locate them and they are a small phillips head. at the botto of the caneels there is a V tang that holds the channel in at the bottom. bend open enough to slide the channel up and out. remove the four screws that hold the window regulator in place. you might hace to raise the window a bit for the next part. push in lightly for the crank stem to clear the flat piece that runs the width of the door and then lower the window and regualator as a unit down far enough so the whole regulator clears the strip. then roll the regulator up and towards you to free the rollers that or in the bottom of the glass frame. then lift window up out the door opening tilting it slightly forward and it will come right out.

Thanks 51ashton. Using your advice I got the window out with no problem. Now I have another question. I assumed the felt covered widow channel went up one side, across the top, and down the other side. When I took it apart though, I found that the channel was only on the sides, and there was a sponge rubber strip across the top that the window seals against when fully raised. Is this stock, and if so, where can you buy the sponge rubber piece? I've not seen it in any of the catalogs.

mine was like that too. i bought new channel from jim carter. there is enough in the coil to make all three pieces. make the vertical pieces first. it cuts easy with a pair of tin snips. use your old pieces as a template for the length and drill the holes. install both pieces then form the top piece to meet the veritcal pieces. be careful on the rear radius as to not to crimp the channel. you can fix it by flattening the sides with a needle nose. make it as tight fitting as you can. the forward the garnish is what holds the top piece in place. when reinstalling the window frame and its freshly painted you can put the rear piece in place and when you put the window in get it started in the channel and slowly lowering keeping tight up against the channel until the window is in. that keep you from scratching the forward part of the frame on the sheetmetal guides for the channel. then fish the forward section between the door and the window frame and put screw backin, bend the tabs back and reverse the operation of how you took it apart. when its done it looks like new and the window is tight and does not rattle.

Mine is apparently very different. It's all one piece going as you originally said from the front up across the top and down the back.

To start I tried to bend it by hand and then I fed it into the channel and got it close. I then raised the window/glass frame into it as I tightened the screws on the trim pieces on the inside of the door. This kept the channel from buckling since it was trapped between the door frame and the window frame.

I haven't had a chance to drive it and hear how air tight it is but it certainly looks like it went in as good as it could.