The Doors

Passenger side is complete except for the door handle. I have to duplicate the little stub extension for the driver's side before I attach the passenger's side. Had to also relocate the seat belt reel due to the back seat bottom not going as far back as I had planned on due to "puffy foam" around the bottom of the seat back and bottom. Lookin pretty good......

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Shavin' the door handles - removed the bear claw latch and covered the solenoid to avoid getting any "stuff" in their workings.

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A little body work required. Switch over to "Body Work" Gallery for more of this sort of stuff...

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10/18/2021---This is the Autoloc cable that stretched out and ceased to work.

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The driver's side electric window operator made by Autoloc (Chinese) failed, so I bought a BALL'S American made, lifetime warranty operator... Unfortunately, it is about 1/2" thicker than the Autoloc, so it won't fit like the first one did, so some surgery is going to be necessary on the door innards...

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Had to cut out all the "indentions" to get the glass mount to line up with the fuzzy window guides, you can see everywhere that the door had indentions, I had to cut it out to move the operator about 3/8" toward the inside of the door/car. The other smaller holes are so I can get to the fasteners when the window is up. Yeah, it's pretty ugly inside the door, but the door panels are beautiful!!!

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Starting to get things organized..Had to do some gingerly cutting around the bicycle cable that is the mechanical connector on the door handle to open the door from the inside without putting wear and tear on the solenoids...

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Getting closer...

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New supports for the motor and the rail were necessary. This is the support for one of the bolts on the motor.

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Close-up of the cuts to move the operator toward the inside of the door

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Bottom rail support... was able to use the same bracket as the old one..

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Two of the 4 bolts used to mount the motor.

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Another view of the upper motor mount bracket.

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While all was apart, decided to epoxy the door opener adapter covered in the early part of this gallery.

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For a '49 thru '51 Ford door, the rail should be cut down/shortened so that the full (Total) length of the rail is 19-1/2" long. The final location of this mounting bolt is determined by rolling the window all the way down so that the top of the glass is at or slightly below the lower sill.

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The bolt head just above the bottom of the rail is a long 1/4"/20 bolt to act as a bottom stop.

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Bolt hole for top mount of the rail is 4-3/4" from the "fuzzy" top to the center of the bolt. There are other measurements earlier on this gallery for more information.

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Lower bracket for motor mount.

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