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anyway moving right along, The Greg has no media blasting cabinet, so he relies on the One Two Punch of abbrassion and acid to clean rust
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The reason there is differences in the window parts is because they used 2 different widths of glass from 73-76ish and 77 and on.
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Rockauto stocks the regulators, I'd buy there before LMC.
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I would advise against replacing a used piece such as the regulator with another used piece as it is a moving part and those rollers wear out. Chances are you will be replacing a broken part with another broken part. |
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As an alternative to the regulator sliders, you might consider something like this-- http://www.homedepot.com/p/Prime-Lin...-100183882-_-N I found them when I ran into the same problem with the back window on a Bronco. I did have to grind down the roller pedistals and drill a hole in the regulator arm, but that was no big deal. They've held up fine for 10 years now and are available locally at most hardware stores. If they can handle that back window, I'm sure door windows would be no problem. |
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man you guys (and gals) won't believe this, so yesterday afternoon I am painting the window regulator with some POR15 I had left over, the regulator is hanging on a wooden stick I have screwed to the top of my wooden fence, when all of a sudden the screws come out of the fence beam and the regulator falls to the ground and it just so happens it lands in a plastic storage bin lid, which is flipped upside down and full of rain water
my heart sinks, I already hate painting in the winter time and now I have a completely painted part under water, I pull it out upset as all heck, lay it down on a metal patio table and without skipping a beat using the same brush, brush off all the water beads, then I hang it inside my garage over night well this morning I go look at it and its all dry, my goodness how did that happen, it dried in the dead of the winter and it was like 28*F last night and looks fine you know what they say sometimes POR15 works in mysterious ways! |
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so there are many options when it comes to fixing our window regulator roller problem
Option 1. buy a brand new complete regulator - now this seems like a logical option and there most likely is a reason why parts houses sell already completely assembled regulators as opposed to individual rollers, we could take this option and be done with it, but than this Post would be so boring, so we entertain other options Option 2. - get just the rollers from an auto parts house even if they are for a different make and model, after spending half a day driving from one outfit to another and see if they will work Option 3. - get rollers from a home repair outfit such as Home Depot because surely they specialize in bathrooms, kitchens, roofs, and of course GM interior car door parts, LOL |
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bet you didn't think I could use a digital caliper let alone own one, ha ha
first we take a measurement of our existing rollers outside D, digital one says .946 which is close to what my analog read when it said 15/16th |
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then we go waste $8 bucks on a Dorman 74430 box of assortment rollers which believe it or not claim to fit, 1975-2001 trucks
let me repeat that they will work on 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, etc. you get the idea, but not on Rusty who was born in 1974 when I first saw this package I assumed all three rollers had a screw on the back end, but only one does, the other two must be rivited on, I guess that's what the word "ASSORTIMENT" was implying but I don't speak Spanish |
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then we visited Home Depot and stared at a wall of "choices" four different posiblities really so we bought them all
we had small squarish wheels we had small rounded wheels we had large squarish wheels we had large rounded wheels |
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back at the garage we eliminated the small wheels and decided to give the larger squarish ones a go, so we measured them first
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since the Dorman auto rollers did not roll all too easily in the track for some reason, I was leaning towards using the Home Depo tub and shower ones, either way, the old rollers had to come out, so it was time to drill them out
took about 10 minutes (love the new drill bits, they [ahem] work!!!) I chose not to grind them off as that would have been ugly, and I would have marred the regulator arms / brackets what ever you wanna call them |
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with the old rivited rollers out, we see now we have a new problem, the holes are about 3/16th big and the screws are only about 1/8th thick so we have wobblage
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What, no Vernier Caliper? :D
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well after much to do about nothing, I figure I may just check out some already assembled and complete regulator prices, you know, just window shoppin' (pun intended)
so there appears to be two brands of these scissor kicking bad boys there's the GOODMARK GMK4144420741R here are the prices for comparison
and the OER - Original Equipment Reproduction T70521
plus the unknown brand LMC Truck carries for $44.95 and the unknown brand Classic Parts has for $41.95 so dummy whats stopping you from buying one of these, well I would like to buy a pair but RockAuto is out of the Left Hand ones plus I can't tell if all of them come with rollers, some don't show rollers in the pictures |
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I don't think any of the vernier's I've used have had one but really the only one's I ever used were 36" or 48" models. |
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FYI, POR15 is a urethane and cures by absorbing water.... so your dousing hastened the cure... may cause flaking later if it cured too fast to bind to the rusty metal.
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OK, now I will show you how to turn this plastic into car parts
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Wow ,you really scored .
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and what do we have here, looks like Santa was a little late this year
This 14 1/2" Grant Classic 5 steering wheel part # 993 MSRPs for $152.43 but I found it on sale at JEGS for $68.38 so I couldn't pass it up, I also bought the proper installation kit for $28 bucks more |
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first I want to show you how ridiculously packaged this wheel is, but no match for any parent who's ever unboxed a Barbie or Tonka truck for their kid
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also note that I am done with Craftsman tools, they just don't make them like they used to (yes you can still exchange them but SEARS will torture you for your email address and phone number now before handing you the replacement tool)
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so its worthy to point out all the bits that make up the new steering wheel
IMPORTANT: this is NOT the Installation Kit on the side of the wheel, this is all the stuff that just unscrews from the wheel itself plus three shinny bolts the Constructions (as my 5 year old would say) which you will not use, why they include them I don't know |
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That new steering wheel looks great ,when do we get to see it installed ? You done yet ????????
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ok, now I would like to share with you the Grant Chevy Installation Kit part number 3196, that's an important part number since they have a bizilion kits
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alright, I hear these JEGS decals are good for 4 extra Horse Power! at least that's what the Ford 5.0 guys claim, jk
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OK, so lets go over the very easy 5 step steering wheel installation process. Step 1. Remove old steering wheel Step 2. Take son to piano lesson Step 3. Take daughter to dance practice Step 4. Beg wife to tell you where she hid the new steering wheel you accidentally left adoring the island in the kitchen (after she allegedly repeatedly told you not to bring car parts in the house) Step 5. Install new steering wheel pics coming soon... |
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Waiting .................................................................Im real patient too .................................................................................................... ...................................................
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This is genius!
I will be putting out a memo to all my family members and friends notifying them that birthdays and Christmas can now be handled by donations to my truck budget. With my friends and family i can afford a new steering wheel in about 6 years lol. |
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