Removing door glass/vent wing.....

Working on a 69 roadrunner door and am stripping down an old door. I don't have a manual for these particular years and it doesn't look like it's the same as my 66 Belvedere sedan which is easy. Any help doing this would be appreciated....

the 67 believe is easy , just started removed the front rt door mechanism to get the channel seals out and whiskers , was just going to replace cat whiskers. but since its apart I'm doing the vertical ones too. she already replace the vent ones , and they bent the door lip at the top on the inside
. so i am straightening it out so when the new whiskers are in it touches the glass

Well, the doors of a 69 are the same as a 70. I've been working on mine the last couple weeks (completed driver's side) & here's what I've learned.
1. Some sources say take the vent/side window out together. This will work for sure, but since I'm working alone, I did mine separately (lighter). You can remove either vent/side window alone (either order)
2. Vent window first:
a. remove (or severely loosen) 1 bolt & 1 nut behind the two plastic plugs, on the inside of the door, right near the hinge area. NOTE: the nut (lower) attaches to a triangular brace that bolts up inside the door with nuts in the door jamb area, near top hinge, in hinge area of door. "might" have to loosen those nuts too, but probably OK not loosening them.
b. remove the tiny plastic plug, inside the door, near the main vent window frame. There is a hex-head bolt behind that plug that also needs to be loosened. (nut, bolt & hex bolt are main 3 attachments)
c. Probably a good idea to at least loosen the "pin" at the bottom of the main vent window support. You access this through a rubber plug under the door. The pin is attached by a big, moveable "speed nut clip"
d. Roll side window down
e. tilt back on top corner of vent window slightly & pull out vent window frame

3. Side window first
a. remove little rubber "corner" at top of vent window (one screw - the top one)
b. remove the screw right beneath the top screw from (a)
c. with side window most of the way down, push out the plastic pin inside the plastic glass-to-support attachment area. Once plastic pin is removed, you can push out the main glass attachment piece which just pushes through the glass & it's support (now glass will be free, so try not to let it fall into door..no big deal, but you'd hate to break the glass)
d. roll window all the way up (or close) while holding it from falling inside the door.
e. lift up glass evenly & out of door, remembering that you have a "run channel felt strip" coming up/out of the rear vent window frame.

HOPE THIS HELPS!

The difficult area is removing the plastic pin from the lower frame stop. Once the glass is rolled down to expose it. I spray a silicone based product on it. Then I wedge blocks of wood behind it tightly and take a center punch and pop the plastic pin out....

There is also an up stop on the rear of the glass that has to be removed.

The one area most people forget is the Allen head bolt with square bracket. This is accessible through the small hole with the colored plug. That holds tension in the rear arm of the vent window.

The last thing is to remove the captive nut with washer through one of the larger black or colored plugs to the far right on the upper painted pad.

Then pull it out as one unit...you will have to angle towards the rear a bit...

moparnation74 said:

There is also an up stop on the rear of the glass that has to be removed.

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Whoops.....yeah, forgot the up-stop

Also, I think there's one small screw, in the door jamb, right at the very bottom of the front part of the vent window frame... it holds the front edge of the door seal.

PurpleBeeper said:

Whoops.....yeah, forgot the up-stop

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You also forget to pull the vent window and the door glass out as one complete unit......

You don’t remove the little rubber stop on the vent frame either....

Reason to do as one unit those aged channels strips can bind and if you get rough with it you can break the glass...also you can whack the glass with the tail of the vent window frame into the door glass and scratch it or break it.....

Ask me how I know this?

I have removed these units the same way out of over a 100 doors and never damaged anything.....now doing them separately and breaking two pieces of glass I learned the hard way and the cleanup sucked....

moparnation74 said:

You also forget to pull the vent window and the door glass out as one complete unit......

You don’t remove the little rubber stop on the vent frame either....

Reason to do as one unit those aged channels strips can bind and if you get rough with it you can break the glass...also you can whack the glass with the tail of the vent window frame into the door glass and scratch it or break it.....

Ask me how I know this?

I have removed these units the same way out of over a 100 doors and never damaged anything.....now doing them separately and breaking two pieces of glass I learned the hard way and the cleanup sucked....

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I've certainly read about doing it all at the same time (Tony D'Agostino's site I think). So a question... where do you position the side glass when you pull it all out together? Up? Down? 1/2 Way?

I still have to do my passenger door & I did consider how much easier it would be to slide the channel strips in on my kitchen table.

PurpleBeeper said:

I've certainly read about doing it all at the same time (Tony D'Agostino's site I think). So a question... where do you position the side glass when you pull it all out together? Up? Down? 1/2 Way?

I still have to do my passenger door & I did consider how much easier it would be to slide the channel strips in on my kitchen table.

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That’s why you leave the rubber up stop on the vent frame. Once everything is loose. Pull the door glass to the top. Hold that with one hand and with the other hand grab the vent window. Then pull it out...easily done with one person but if you have a second person helps. Sometimes the second person is not helpful if they are not understanding you....goes in the same way in reverse.....

Also just to note, you mentioned this but remove the lower vent frame stabilizer. Remove the large plug under the door frame and remove the nut. Push the rod up and through the flat bracket and the wiggle it out....

Also....when you reinstall it as one unit put the door fuzzies in after......makes life very easy