With the vent frame in one door and looking good it was time to complete the door stuff by installing the glass. This was a much tougher chore than I would have thought. The door glass has a felt coated plastic strip that attaches to the front edge and slides up and down in a channel in the rear edge of the vent frame. I had two replacement strips along with new weather-strip for the chrome trim at the rear of the glass.

The new felt coated pieces are nice but they are not cut to length and are missing the holes that the attaching clips use to fasten to the glass. Luckily I kept the crappy old ones and just used them as templates. Cutting and punching the strips was a no brainer and attaching them to the glass was a snap. The weather-strip for the chrome trim at the rear of the glass was equally as easy. One problem that I did have with the trim at the rear of the glass was that it was not tight to the glass anymore and could be pulled off easily. This piece is secured to the side glass the same way that the vent glass is secured to its base. When new there is a tight fitting plastic seal practically molded around the glass down in the channel. If you remember I use a section of bike tire inner tube and it held very tightly. Unfortunately I didn't have anymore inner tube rubber so I was forced to do something else. I thought I would simply "glue" it on a thin bead of silicone/adhesive down in the channel of the trim. After letting the silicone dry overnight, I could not pull the trim off with a reasonable amount of effort... so this worked as far as I was concerned.

Whenever I have taken this glass out of cars in yards I have just separated the vent frame at the top and pulled the glass out. I just assumed I could easily do the reverse to install the glass. It was a bit trickier going back in. The combination of new felt coated strip; not wanting to scratch or dent anything and only having two hands made this a real exercise in patients. I could separate the vent frame but holding it far enough a part to slide the glass in... and actually slide the glass in was fun. I was able to wedge a screwdriver in at the top of the vent frame to hold it apart while sliding the glass in. Of course the new felt strip was a much tighter fit that the old worn out one so it was not that easy getting it to slide in. I did manage to get it down into the door and in the track at the rear of the door. After attaching the bottom of the glass to the lifting arm in the door, I gave the window crank a crank. Wow... this glass did NOT want to go up and down easily. It definitely was due to the new felt at the front edge. After raising it and lowering it a couple dozen times it seemed to free up a little bit but not much. I just went on to something else while mulling over what to do about it.