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DIY Window Guides
First I would like to say thank you to Robert Ibarra(VetteUSA). Five years ago he started a thread
with a DIY instructions on how ti replace our infamous window guides. The Official C4 Corvette Window Alignment Write Up (PDF) - Corvette Forum Back in 2006 I was driving from Graceland to the NCM, and suddenly both windows made a weird noise. I think it was the high winds in Kentucky that broke the window guides. The windows always worked, and I got used to work around it. In 2007 Robert started his thread, posted a PDF file, and I was lucky enough to save it. Last year road trip made the windows worse, and finally I bought the guides. Finally today the new guides are now installed. I started with the drivers door. removed the panel and all the BS that comes with it. You can see it is broken in half allowing the window to dance all over the space. I removed the whole aluminum panel, it made it easier and faster to complete the task. This is the door handle snap, and it was very friendly. Special tool The good and the bad. Replaced all nylon fasteners. The old ones were like the rest of the C4 plastic; cracked and unserviceable. Window no longer hits the pillar. Passenger side. This one was totally destroyed. I had to use Robert's trick on the passenger side. The PDF is no longer available on-line, but I will attach it to this thread for you guys to save it. Trust me, this is gold. |
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I may need this at some point. When I first shut my door (getting in) the window must not seat right because it will rattle a bit. If I roll it down just a couple inches and then back up it will make a pop noise but the rattle goes away.
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Nice. I remember the last time you came down to Escondido, you let me look at something in Betty Boop and I remember how much the door rattled when I closed it. Just figured that's how all GM cars are when they get more than 100k mi on them.
I guess my last c4 and now my low mile 91 were still good as far as the glass goes. I'm glad you fixed it because it sounded shitty. |
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Christ Pete I swear you know more about the insides of a C4 than the assembly line workers.
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Warning: Do not go to the movies to watch Cloud Atlas. In my book the super-long movie sucked major ass, wait for it to come out on FX or Spike TV. I kinda wasted my money, but there were some problems with the movie format in the beginning, the theater management stopped the movie for 5 minutes, and gave everybody a re-admission pass. |
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Nice work, Pete! Thorough as usual!
I liked the cameo appearance of the pet food can... |
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Pete, would you mind if I dropped my '90 off at your place for the winter?
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