Posted a thread on window channels a while ago for my 33 plymouth sedan. Anyway I'm making them out of 3/4, 1/16 wall box tubing by cutting one side off. That's working out pretty good but I got a question. How did they get a door gl*** in these cars anyway? This car is chopped at least 4 inches, I mocked the channels up on each side, I also cut a pattern for the door gl*** out of lexan, only problem is the door gl*** won't go in with the channels in there, with or without the seals installed. Tried removing 1 channel but once the window is in you can't get the channel back in. I was just curious on how they went in a stock door, I know the chop isn't helping me any.
The bottom of the channel should fasten to the door with a screw or bolt. Then you can finagle the gl*** to the bottom and with the channel unfastened, spread them apart, insert the gl*** and slide it to the top and the fasten the channel. If that made any sense lol
Might even have to put one of them in after the gl*** is in the door? Load that thing up and bring it over lol
Channel, nether one, will go in with the gl*** in, they have to angle to drop in because of the chop. I thought maybe they had a 2 piece channel in them or something. I'm going to fool with it tomorrow some more, ran out of time today. There isn't room in the door to put the channels in loose and install the gl***, I'll update tomorrow evening after I fool with it tomorrow.
On my car, I put the gl*** and window channels in at the same time. Otherwise, it won't fit. Sent from my SM-T350 using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
I only spent about 3 days getting the channels, gl*** seals on the door, and the gl*** into the doors on my 49 Dodge truck and that was with OEM replacement parts and not a chopped truck. The bottom of the front window track bolted into place, and the bottom piece of the gl*** holder was spring clipped to the window winder. You put both the front and rear channels in 1st, with bottoms unbolted. Then you dropped the gl*** into the door from the top, gl*** outside the door frame. It barely fits. Once the gl*** is inside the door, you drop it to the very bottom of the side tracks, then slide it towards the rear and into the rear channel. Then you slide the front channel into place and bolt it up loosely. Once the gl*** is roughly in place, you install the outer gl*** fuzzy, and then the inner fuzzy or rubber slides (whichever yo have). Then you raise to the gl*** until you can hook the two spring clips to the winder. Once everything is bolted into place, you use the front channel to adjust the front to back window position and tighten the bolt. It would be a royal pita to install that door gl*** with a chopped roof, I don't know how you would be able to get the gl*** past the top of the door frame. Gene
when they chopped the top, it needed to become longer... did they add too much to the gl*** frames ? now chopped did it make the area too small to fit the gl*** frame in even at an angle... also the mopars did too much ; all sections roll up and down... just the window rolls up and down... vent swinging in and out... . Ford had the '33 roll just up and down, but '34 rolls all the way up then hits a cam and slides back as a baby vent window, [i call em forest fire starters] they threw out their cigar ****s... all the ford stuff is re-popped... if screwing ford stuff to your mopar doesn't make you sick, maybe modify '33 fords... IMO only. if you think you might, pm me as i can give you more detailed info on what '33 used and what '34 did... HIH.
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