Beyond frustrated!, installation of triangle seal, glass , and front track- seal too long, tight, door cant shut and to top it off the bottom adjuster, was stuck, broke! Options

[DRPHIL914]

beyond frustrated- i am going to have to source a replacement assembly with a good adjuster- anyone have one send my way cheap or free??

spent the better part of the last 4 hours trying to get the doors done. unable to complete because the drivers door bottom adjuster nut that is attached to the front track that also holds the triangle window was rusted bad and snapped off- second was , before that happened being unable to get triangle glass seal in(too long) and down enough so could not get door to shut.

pulled it all back out and now i cant decide how to proceed!

[tmc914]

That triangle seal was difficult indeed. Started with the drivers side and then stopped when it came to the passengers side. Not worth it. Had to do a lot of extra cutting of the rubber, finally got the door to close properly. Do need 3 hands to make it work but somehow I did it with only 2 hands. It seemed like the grove the glass slides into at the bottom was not deep enough and the glass is pushing the whole arrangement deeper into the door than it should. Not going to try and fix it unless something pops loose. There is a lot of pressure on that triangle glass right now with the door closed.

[DRPHIL914]

That triangle seal was difficult indeed. Started with the drivers side and then stopped when it came to the passengers side. Not worth it. Had to do a lot of extra cutting of the rubber, finally got the door to close properly. Do need 3 hands to make it work but somehow I did it with only 2 hands. It seemed like the grove the glass slides into at the bottom was not deep enough and the glass is pushing the whole arrangement deeper into the door than it should. Not going to try and fix it unless something pops loose. There is a lot of pressure on that triangle glass right now with the door closed.

I am going to have to recheck the triangle glass groove depth. I had not really considered that as an issue. on my car the whole bottom of the seal is too long to set into the door groove.
I re-tried the passenger side last night and did it 2 different ways, no luck, but closer in that when I pulled the glass out, and got the vertical frame lined up then adjusted in to proper place where the top angle cap was up into the frame seal properly with door closed, I then put the seal in with out the glass, but still too tight in front even with out any glass. so I did a slight trimming of that front bottom leading edge just as suggested by Mark and Matt to get this to sit donw into the channel and I am closer to getting this in, the door actually shut, but this is all with out the triangle glass not in the seal. I tried to slide the glass into the seal with out moving the frame out since it was lined up perfectly now, but that was not working either!!

- I will probably leave the frame in place for now, I might end up driving the car up with out the triangle glass, I have to get this motor in the car and gas lines hooked up this weekend and try and get the car running, or it will not be there- I could be that guy that shows up in the Boxster!
--- I hope not. - 3 weeks from today right?? shit I don't know how that is going to happen.