Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire 64 Ford Galaxie project.

There are lots of little fixes that go un noticed on these cars but they are all important. Window function is one of them. The side window mechanisms were a mess on this car, I've rebuilt much of that already but just yesterday I did a technical "how to" for a guy with a wing window problem over on a ford forum. I had the same problem he was asking about, it was on my "to do list" so I went through one of my wing window actuators for him with pictures yesterday.

Here, check it out.

There's the loose plate that's causing the problem. Someone forced the crank at some time in the past 50 years and the mechanism grenaded inside the door. The worm gear drives the retention plate off the end of the housing.... "and the dang window never did shut right after 1971 when bubba ternt the crank too hard..."




in this case it's so loose I can swing it to the side.



With the plate not in place like it's supposed to be, the worm gear can just screw itself out the back side of the housing rather than to deliver rotating force to the wing window shaft.



I cleaned things up and packed the gear housing with new grease.


I also greased the inside of the plate where it contacts the and locates the end of the worm gear.





Now for the rivet boss, it's still a bit flared out so the plate wont just slip back over the top of it. So, we'll have to reduce it's OD a bit.

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I used a regular slip jaw pliers. I squeezed (gently) on the OD of the rivet and rotated the pliers. I'm trying to squeeze the rivet boss back into a round shape without removing material from the OD. I did get a bit of shaving action on the OD due to the serrations on the pliers.

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now the plate goes back into place easily with the rivet bosses protruding through the plate retention holes.

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