Need help door swap

[icecat66]

Ok guys hate to bug you with what might turn out to be an easy thing to do but I'm new to this restoration thing..... I got a new door for my car nice blank shell.. What I need to know is how does one remove all the crap from the other door and put said crap in new door???

Thanks
Joe

 

[detmatt1]

Get yourself a factory service manual for your car, take your time, take notes and take pics if you can that will aid in the reassembly.

 

[Nacho-RT74]

first remove the glass without channels and guides ( will remain on it just the nuts inserts/fasteners ).... then regulator, then everything of the rest. My suggestion... remove piece by piece and reinstall on new door inmediatly but regulator and glass, which are the two first pieces to be removed and the last one to be reinstalled.



The artistic part will be realign the glass once again on car.

P.S.: good luck with glass nuts... bolts and nuts on glass use to be lot rusted and get stuck

 

[Bruzilla]

Another good piece of advice is be damn careful when tightening the nuts and bolts that hold the glass to the regulators. I can tell you from personal experience there's nothing like tightening one of these just a smidge too much and creating just enough force to turn your window into a cascading shower of glass fragments that rain down upon you.

 

[Hemi Rebel]

And you can always look at the opposite door if you get stuck remembering where everything goes.

 

[rocky61201]

This is probably the best pic I have that I got from another thread on this forum or one of the other mopar forums. I hope it helps. Like the other guys said, only do one door at a time!!! The channel that attaches to the glass is really the only part that can be bolted on either door and it will bolt up corrrectly. But you won't find out till later that it doesn't really work and the regulator will pop out of the tracks with the window all the way down leaving you wondering what the hell is going on. Don't ask me how I know, lol.

One other thing, I couldn't re-use the factory bolt's, washer's, ect. that you use to attach the glass. They we're rusted and stripped and in pretty bad shape. I didn't feel like searching for the correct factory stuff so i went to lowe's instead and bought similar sized bolts, nuts, washers, and thick rubber washers on each side of the glass to avoid breaking the glass if i screwed to tight.