Passenger Window Woes

[Worsey]

Gotta love caring for a 24 year old car eh...driving along on Monday avo, lovely sunny day, roar of the bikes in the distance, John flips the window switch....and the passenger window just dropped in the door frame[]Having taken the door card off it was plain to see the runner at the foot of the window had been pulled off the foot of the window glass due to the friction of the window sliding up and down the door frame and consequently slipped the wheels at the end of the servo arms that run along the two tracks. Sure enough the bonding is completely shot to bits. I'll see if I can get a new rubber strip from OPC Chester but can anyone recommend a bonding agent both for the rubber strip and the metal runner?

Will give that glass and damn good clean too whilst I'm at it.

Cheers
Lee

 

[Monkeythree]

Shoo goo.
I've not yet found something that it doesn't stick to.

 

[g944s2]

I had the opposite problem, window was down and it struggled to go back up now won't open at all.

 

[vitesse]

Possibly seized motor/drive--have a look at 1 of my recent posts under"what did I do to my 944 today"

 

[Kongsodoken]

Look at the wayside adhesives website, they have the correct stuff I have used it for the tailgate glass and the same application as yours

Make sure you get it back on in the correct place.....the one roller get very close to the end of the track[]

 

[bmnelsc]

I had a similar problem with my S2 although it was the regulator that bound up (wheel got more than half way off the end of the track, bound up and bent the regulator arm) and the glass shifted in the track by several inches. I'm surprised that you can get the rubber - on my '91 the only parts options are 1) new window with track installed for C$450.

I carefully cleaned the rubber, window bottom and track with acetone and a scraper then took the window to a windshield shop to be glued back together with modern windshield adhesive (which appears to be what Porsche used when it was built). I removed the other door card to get measurements to place the window properly in the track, ran a piece of painters tape a couple of inches up from the bottom and marked the location of the rubber strip and the metal channel. The shop had no problems keeping to the marks. After drying for a day I put it back together and its been good for a year now.

Note that the windshield shop was not convinced that this would work but once assured that I would not hold them accountable, they did the job.

While you are in there, I recommend you check your switches carefully. When I had the other door apart I was checking the switch (even tho everything was working well) and a couple of wires came away with no effort to speak off. Cold solder job I would say. I re-soldered the wires and all good.