Quarter windows now properly repaired and 100% functional!
Last year I attempted to repair the broken quarter windows on my '66 Newport. I was somewhat successful in as much as they would go down, but they wouldn't always come back up due to some incorrect replacement parts.
All of that has been corrected now, finally!
DETAILS:
In 2023 I bought the quarter window repair kit for B bodies because there wasn't anything available for C bodies. This means that the kit I bought didn't have the proper "square" slider for the very back corner of the window where the articulated "double" roller lives. The round roller worked, but it was very sloppy and didn't seem like it wanted to come back up. This year, 2024, the quarter window kit for C body kits is now available, which includes the correct "square" articulated slider (not actually a roller).
For the driver's side window, this was the only repair needed - replaced the round B body articulated roller with the square C body articulated slider.
On the passenger side there was quite a bit of carnage. First, I had to replace the round B body articulated roller with the square C body one. Second, last year I broke the top "roller guide" - the one that bolts to the regulator - I tried to repair with JB Weld, but that lasted about one trip down and back up before it popped. I procured a replacement from eBay (listed as fitting an A body but it was identical) so I installed that. That required completely removing the front guide track from the window cavity, cleaning/greasing, mounting the new top roller guide and the original lower guide (the one with the white roller). At the same time, I also put a proper white roller on the lower roller guide, since my original was broken and the one from the B body kit I installed last year wasn't the correct one [I ended up using a random nylon roller that fit over the shaft but didn't engage all of the way - this prevented me from using a spring clip to lock it in place, and this roller would pop out of it's channel.] So, with both roller guides properly equipped, the entire front channel assembly went back in the window cavity. This was quite a chore, as getting the upper roller to index properly into the mounting hole (without breaking it again) was extremely challenging, as the posture one is required to kneel in is NOT comfortable, and because of the configuration of the regulator assembly I had to use my left hand for a lot of the work, and being right handed, this proved very challenging.
All in all, about an hour to fix the drivers side (including adjustments) and 3 hours for the passenger side, due to the greater number of parts to remove/replace, plus the issues caused by things being mirrored and having to use my left hand while kneeling on the titanium rod placed through my tibial plateau. But, was it worth it? YES! I can now roll down my windows at will without worry. They do creak and pop a little, but I think that is the age of the assembly - no amount of fiddling with the different adjustments would get rid of the occasional "pop" - it just made the window hang up on the weatherstripping, so I finally gave up on trying to eliminate the sounds and I just got it to go up and down without hanging up on things.
[edited for clarity]
