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Wed Feb 15, 2006 5:40 pm
You need the triangular plate, picture #2, looks like the numbers are K8636 and K8637. The 3 plastic guide pieces (the 2 fronts that slide in the channels, and the one on the rear thats probably broken on yours like it was on mine) are a riveted-on part of the plate assembly, although it looks like they show K3310 as separate, not sure why its shown like that, unless its not one of the pieces. And if its not, I'm not sure what it is.
I have no idea what that last picture is, it doesnt look like anything I pulled out of mine.
What happens is (or should I say, what happened to mine), is that the plastic guide piece on the rear-most guide, snaps in half at the thinnest point. Unfortunately, that rear guide is what keeps the window going straight up and down at the right angle.
I rebuilt mine using off the shelf parts from home depot. Basically what I did was make a new rear guide piece out of L-angle aluminum, lined with the original plastic piece as a friction surface. I bonded the plastic piece(s) to the aluminum L-channel stock with high-strength plastic epoxy. Then I drilled out, removed, and replaced the factory rivet-pin with a 5/16 in. steel pin and held it and the new guide piece in place with a couple of washers and a steel wire clip. Total cost, about $25 for pins, washers, drill bits, epoxy, and small metal-cutting wheels for my drill. Total time, about 12 hours over 2 days, start to finish, being that I have no vert manual and I had to figure out how to remove everything, multiple trips to home depot, fabricate and cut the pieces, get the track assembly back in, realign it, etc. Lots of drilling, cutting, filing, measuring, trial fitting, greasing, bleeding, cussing, etc. But the windows work perfect now, so it was very much worth it. I really wish I would have taken pictures along the way, but it was late Saturday night and early super bowl sunday so I was anxious to get done.
If I get some time in the next week or so, I will take pictures of the pieces as they look installed, and write up as best I can what I did to make it work if people are interested.