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Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 5:19 am Post subject: outer window felt installation. an easier way
Tired of fishing for that attachment screw that keeps falling into the bottom of the door because your fingers are too fat to get between the glass and the window felt? Try this:
1. With the door panels removed, locate the window drop limiter which is held in place by a bolt near the bottom of the door midway from the sides. (this bolt is accessible from outside) There is a guide slot in the door below this bolt for a tab on the drop limiter.
2. Mark the location of the bolt or the tab.
3. Loosten the bolt. Don't take it all the way out!!!!!!!!
4. Slide the drop limiter down as far as it will go and then let the glass down to it.
You now have easy access to the window felt attachment screws. No fishing, no cussing, no throwing tools.
Reverse the process returning the drop limiter to its original position.
This worked on my '85 el with power windows. Don't know what others it will work on. _________________ They think I'm going through my second childhood but I'm not through my first one yet.
Necoa #: 128
Location: 7(AL,GA,TN)
Joined: Dec 10, 2002
Posts: 1399
Year: 1987
Model: El Camino
Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 9:26 am Post subject:
Oh great! Now you tell us. Did my outer felts a while back (with a lot of cussin & the throwing of tools) without even thinking of playing with this limiter bolt you speak of.
Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 10:09 am Post subject: window felt
Don't feel like the Lone Ranger. I went through the agony on my '80 el two years ago. This time on the '85, I again spent hours dropping screws into the inner door and fishing them out with a magnet. I finally threw down my homemade tool and walked away from it. That night I sat down and had a long talk with Jim Beam. (He and Jack Daniels know a lot of stuff) That's when the "light" came on. Couldn't wait to get back to try it the next day.
When I think back on all the wasted hours I spent on fishing for screws, I realize that maybe it was good training for those carnival games where you crank the boom around to pick up the "valuable goodies" inside. Can't wait for the carnival to come to town this Summer.
Sorry you didn't get this before your project. I hope this will save a lot of skinned-up wrists and knuckles and cussing for el camino lovers in the future.
PS: I found out body & fender pro's call the part a
beltline moulding _________________ They think I'm going through my second childhood but I'm not through my first one yet.
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