rear opening window bracket broken - help anyone?
#1
Posted 03 May 2006 - 11:29 AM
will I have to change the whole window, or can I just change the mechanism or maybe a repair?
any help would be appreciated.
#2
Posted 03 May 2006 - 12:01 PM
#3
Posted 03 May 2006 - 12:03 PM
#4
Posted 03 May 2006 - 12:05 PM
#5
Posted 03 May 2006 - 12:07 PM
may have one in the garage
#6
Posted 03 May 2006 - 12:10 PM
#7
Posted 03 May 2006 - 12:15 PM
dead easy to change. If you can operate a screwdriver without adult supervision.....
agghhh screwdriver? erm... a real one?
#8
Posted 03 May 2006 - 05:03 PM
i'm relatively sure they can be brazed back together, but how long it would last is another question.
Seems a little extreme as they are only riveted together as standard.
The early type side windows have the frame rivetted together around the glass, this is the type which need specialist rebuilding. Later windows have the frame held together with a screw which once removed allows the frame to be removed from the glass so that you can rivet all the parts back together. Don't know where you'll get the rivets though. Get the rivet heads inside the frame as flat as you can so they don't hit the glass when re-fitted and use a new glazing rubber in the frame to seal the glass as well as fitting a new body seal while you're at it.
#9
Posted 03 May 2006 - 05:31 PM
#10
Posted 03 May 2006 - 06:27 PM
depends on whats broken. The latch on my car had the bracket actually snapped around the rivets, and thus would need brazing back together (or replacing, I wouldn't trust it to not fail again!). If it has just come unriveted, then yeah, that solution is a little extreme.....
its snapped clean off where it meets the window frame
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