darn.... been a year without an update.
Crankwalk - the wheels are still sitting in my office.... They may end up on "Racecar" (I bought a TRD built AE86 racecar)
Back to Surreptitious..... I had in interesting month of February... as is the case on even years, she needed to go through emissions testing. The old dual stage cat has been on for the better part of 5 years now, and when I went to get her tested.. she failed... even with her still very good tune. I had a new dual stage cat installed..... pretty clean for a cammed 4AGE....
so, she passed emissions, and on the way home.........
this happened....
that is the window stop on the driverside......
it is located in a difficult to get at place on the glass... difficult because once disassembled... it required a bit of ingenuity to get it re-installed...... but before it gets re-installed, I need a replacement part to reinstall. A 35 year old car doesn't have a lot available at the dealer... especially this kind of part. And if they did, do I want a 35 year old piece of plastic?? UMHW - lets call it machinable plastic, I bought a 1 foot long piece 1" diameter........
Thank you AE86andKP61
So, getting back to reinstallation.....
The hardware in the starred circle is a flat plastic washer(for against the glass, and a flat steel nut. The issue was how to get to the back side of the glass. The factory service manual says to pull; the outer beltline molding, and then dismount the glass from the regulator.....
for the new readers, my car has a flaw from the previous owner... the door glass is different between the early cars(80-81), and the later cars (82-83). The later models had a wing mounted mirror, while the early cars used a door skin mounted mirror. The glass, and regulator... and door are slightly different... and the previous owner mixed the two using a 83 door, but 80 internals.... and so the glass doesn't quite fit right, and has been jury rigged....
sooo... the last thing I really want to do is take the glass out, and try to "re-jury rig" the whole thing.
Solution..... using a tongue depressor, and RTV, I affixed the flat nut to the tongue depressor with a dab of RTV, also usaing some RTV to affix the washer to the nut. Then with help(4 hands needed - again ty AE86andKP61) we managed to get the stop refitted without removing the glass.
more to come...........