2000 Mustang Drivers Window

ktmlew · June 22, 2013

Anyone find a glue that will hold the tracks on the glass?

vloney · June 22, 2013

use windshield urethane.

ktmlew · June 22, 2013

use windshield urethane.

I wasn't sure if that would work. Have seen some suggestions on the net about limiting the ability of the rear glass track/mounts ability to rotate itself off the glass when it hits the stop?

I hate working on window crap. The customer never wants to spend any money and the metal always is sharp as a razor...I almost lost a couple fingers on one (Windstar?) when I didn't get the regulator clamped properly before drilling out some rivets.

vloney · June 23, 2013

You have to glue them down in the same spots as original to allow full "swing" of the regulator.

Aaron · June 25, 2013

Originally Posted By: vloney

use windshield urethane.

I wasn't sure if that would work. Have seen some suggestions on the net about limiting the ability of the rear glass track/mounts ability to rotate itself off the glass when it hits the stop?

I hate working on window crap. The customer never wants to spend any money and the metal always is sharp as a razor...I almost lost a couple fingers on one (Windstar?) when I didn't get the regulator clamped properly before drilling out some rivets.

Been there done that, that's scary as hell.

As for the glue, use 3M body shop panel adhesive. It's a binary liquid, like epoxy but after 3 minute clamp time, that shit isn't going ANYWHERE.

mchan68 · June 25, 2013

I hate working on window crap. The customer never wants to spend any money and the metal always is sharp as a razor...I almost lost a couple fingers on one (Windstar?) when I didn't get the regulator clamped properly before drilling out some rivets.

Good to know I'm not the only one. I vividly remembered changing out a window regulator on a '98 Windstar some time back in 2001 at one dealer I worked at. Just about the exact same scenario you described, happened to me too. It sure left a nice trail of blood as I held it, trying to get to a first aid kit as fast as I could at the time. Five stiches later and I was back in the game the next day. I never forgot that one.

ktmlew · June 25, 2013

Originally Posted By: ktmlew

Originally Posted By: vloney

use windshield urethane.

I wasn't sure if that would work. Have seen some suggestions on the net about limiting the ability of the rear glass track/mounts ability to rotate itself off the glass when it hits the stop?

I hate working on window crap. The customer never wants to spend any money and the metal always is sharp as a razor...I almost lost a couple fingers on one (Windstar?) when I didn't get the regulator clamped properly before drilling out some rivets.

Been there done that, that's scary as hell.

As for the glue, use 3M body shop panel adhesive. It's a binary liquid, like epoxy but after 3 minute clamp time, that shit isn't going ANYWHERE.

I found that last night. Thought I had posted about it but apparently not.

http://solutions.3m.com.sg/wps/portal/3M...Pgl1QQQVNZR2Fbl

On my Windstar dealio, had my fingers in a hole about 6 feet back from the regulator...still too close! It stretched the ligaments in my LH index finger that took a couple years to heal.

Coulda been worse!