Arizona Swinger

made a run down to Ace hardware and picked up some plastic tubing and also a piece of darkened sheet plastic used on a computer monitor to cut down on the brightness of the screen, and made the spacers and plastic washers to install the quarter window glasses to the rear regulators. Since most of the plastic parts used in quarter windows are over 35 years old, finding good used ones, especially here in hot Arizona, is pretty futile. Also had to make up the rubber bands that are used on the stop adjustments at the front and rear of the quarter windows. Found that cutting a piece of 5/8" heater hose cut to the proper length, stretches onto the stop and makes a very good replacement for the original, and probably will last quite a bit longer than the OEM. Making new ones worked quite well!

A couple of pictures of the quarter windows installed and adjusted. A little silicone spray and the windows seem to fit into the roof rail weatherstrips fairly well.

Also picked up some 'plasti dip' while at Ace.....have used this in the past on other projects, and it works well in doing rubber/plastic repairs. Its' original purpose was for dipping tool handles in the dip, letting them dry, and having plastic insulated handles. Case in point is the rubber piece that is located in the floor of the trunk that the fuel filler tube goes through. The rubber was pealing around the edges, so after being cleaned, and all of the loose rubber pieces removed, we coated the piece several times with the 'plasti dip' and the piece looks very presentable. Ben.