Thanks for the encouragement John, you just have to be quick and smart and park the bird behind a bush and you can get enough time to do a few quick fixes. I'm out of here in about 5 weeks and heading back home, so I'm hoping inside the next 3 months I'll have a garage to call my own back home in Coloardo.

I got impatient and decided to dive in, manual be damned. Wasn't quite as hard as I expected once I got my hands into it. Luckily I opted to get the regulator the guy I got the window from had, because a couple of the rollers on the one in the door were busted off. So it went from a glass drop in, to a regulator swap and drop.

For some reason I decided the best way to do this was to take the rails out, fit them on the window and drop the whole thing in and be done. Well I guess an once of observation would have saved me the trouble of taking the rails out, and putting them right back in. I guess I forgot that a window is about 1/8" thick, and the rails are atleast 1" wide, so they don't fit well down the window slot. Once I got those back in I compared the rolling hardware on my new window with the busted ones I saved from the rails and found a stop or bumper that had to be transplanted, and moved it onto the new window.

Then came the "drop in". Well as stupid as it looks, that darn window felt bar is just thick enough to kill the clearance for the rolling hardware. So I took out the screws and gave the felt a little tug, and walked right into the biggest pain of the whole procedure. I must have spent 10 minutes trying to get the felt to come off without destroying it since it had already started to dry rot. I had maybe 20 minutes of sun left, and then I did what most Marines resort to in such a crisis. I pulled it really hard. Miraculously the first clip gave way (read: broke) and I figured out how to get the rest of it out.

Now for the "drop in". But after getting the back roller in, I found out that the transplanted stop was too big to fit through the slot. AH! Took that off, wiggled and squeezed and hit and prayed and the front dropped in. Lowered the window, lined up the regulator support bar, screwed it in and VOILA, instant window. A few bits of felt later and now I have a functional window.

Except now the rear quarter doesn't line up, and the moisture barrier is in the trunk, and I put a 1/2" hairline scratch in the tint at the front corner, and it's the only tinted window on the bird. BUT, I did manage to "do" the job in about 45 minutes with little more than a 7/16" socket and a little mechanical inclination.

Only thing now is, what type of adhesive should I use to reattach the dust/moisture cover? I'm looking at some double sided scotch tape and it's getting mighty tempting...