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Love the pictures of your work. You are a true artist.
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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..."


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

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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.

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I cleaned things up and packed the gear housing with new grease.
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I also greased the inside of the plate where it contacts the and locates the end of the worm gear.

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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.

[img]http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e...s/IMG_20141211_113712629_zpsqlu1wakz.jpg[/img]


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Before staking, it's a good idea to clamp the plate to the housing with a bit of pressure, reasonable pressure, you don't want to crush or break anything.

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Notice I'm clamping to the housing, not to the worm gear shaft.

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Next I took the assembly over to a vise. I grabbed an old axle stub end for use as a rivet buck. You can use the corner of the vice or what ever you can make work.

I'm resting the opposite side of my rivet face against the "buck"

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Now it's just a matter of recreating that flared/expanded rivet shape. I'm going to tighten both rivets while I'm at it. I actually started with the pick end of one of my body hammers, because it happened to be within arms reach and it had the right shape.

I would suggest starting with a blunt tipped centering punch to get the initial flare shape started. Then you can finish off the job with a small ball peen hammer.

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There ya go.

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I'm tellin ya, that thing is silky smooth now, it's going to work like new.


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Neat pictorial Dave! Keep it up please!


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Well ND your missing the boat just a little.

Shaw's Journal blog is what I'm talking about or a web site with the progress.
Needs to be copyrighted as you go.

Keep it up here also, but you really need to look into that.
No telling where that might go as time goes by.




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Very nice Dave, I love your attention to detail. That is what sets a craftsmen apart from a mere mechanic.


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Attention to detail????

I've worked with this man on some very large and detailed projects over the years and "detail" is an understatement. There wasn't a screw unturned before we brought the project to the powers to be.

Sooooo glad to see ND unchained. I hope that wasn't copyrighted. smile

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The fact that you took the time to fix something 99.9% of classic car owners and even car lovers would have lived with is why I am 100% sure you're going to be a success in your business.

Well done Dave.


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Originally Posted by tzone
The fact that you took the time to fix something 99.9% of classic car owners and even car lovers would have lived with is why I am 100% sure you're going to be a success in your business.

Well done Dave.


This in spades. Makes me embarrassed to admit how many of those little things I let go instead of fixing!

"Unchained". Good descriptor.


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I think you guys are all drunk.

But thanks anyways.

lol!

These pre 65 bodies on full sized cars... they really test a bodyman.

I wanted to be rolling this car into primer this morning. But after several days of glazing panels and block sanding by hand, it's not ready yet.

So, back out to the shop I go this morning.



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But you will get-er-done!


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Originally Posted by tzone
The fact that you took the time to fix something 99.9% of classic car owners and even car lovers would have lived with is why I am 100% sure you're going to be a success in your business.

Well done Dave.


Right on!


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Northern Dave Unchained.....a new and upcoming movie title ?


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Getting really close to my first round of primer

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Nice,..looks like you worked all the wrinkles out..

What color will she end up.?

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"Inferno red metallic"


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Got a color swatch? laugh


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Like this?

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I reckon so.



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Almost "Gimmee a ticket" red!


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