Hello,

Just thought I'd post a quick repair on the rear window repair and door latch cleaning on a rather beat up, left for dead, 1968 LTD 4 dr hardtop. According to the Ford Illustration Guide, this applies to '65-'68 4 dr hardtops.

On the way to town to start the process of a surety bond title the rear window mechanism more or less broke and the glass would not roll up and was pretty apparent the guide rollers broke and jambed up the works.

I do not want to spend much money on this till the title is granted in our names, but I need to get the window up and sealed properly, so I decided to spend a little on new rollers and door bumpers and just my labour.

Hopefully this may help someone, either with reassembling, a bad regulator, or alignment problems on 3rd gen galaxies.

Here's the door.

It appears this door was never monkeyed with.

As you can see the window mechanism is knackered, should be more or less level.

I'm not going to bore you with both disassembly and assembly. I'll focus on assembly as that's the crucial bit, if you like just reverse the steps on assembly to take it apart.

Here are the major parts of the window works. I like the train layout guide plate.

All 3 rollers are broken off, all that's left are the riveted in axles for them.

I found the guide part of the rollers (like a nylon washer) in the door bottom all intact. Next to it is the new roller.

It was like playing archeologist in the bottom of the door looking for parts. That's the door bottom completely filled up with dirt!

Everything was cleaned; all old hard crusty lubrication removed and this was lightly sandblasted to help the paint adhere.

New rollers installed.

Since the roller axle is recessed in the roller a bit, I used a 8-32 nut to keep pressure on the axle only whilst the air hammer did its thing. There is a crimper for these but it's a bit pricey for something that you probably will have to only do once in your lifetime on one car.

Nothing fancy here, I ground down a cheap air chisel bit to flare and flatten the new axle rivet end.

Agh the regulator, one main problem with this and quite frankly the entire car, is that all the lubrication everywhere is caked and hardened. The one way clutch (part of the crank handle assembly) was so gummed up it would not hold and the spring would cause the regulator to move closest to the unloaded position all by itself. This is potentially a bad thing as it also means with the windows rolled up and doors locked anyone could insert their fingers in the top and pull the window down and it would unwind. Not good...

Unload the spring. I used channel locks, and they worked great.

Drill out the rivets and remove the one way clutch assembly out.

And now it's time to clean everything and paint/powdercoat! Well almost everything..

Regulator all cleaned and ready for reassembly. I'm using hardened solid rivets to reattach the one way clutch.

The one rivet that goes under the driven gear I had to grind the head flat so it would clear.

All new synthetic lubricants, will never harden in my lifetime

Back together, I'll just touch up any missed areas of painting and scratches for corrosion protection. But now this regulator I can rotate easily by hand, no more gummed up binding needing a pipe wrench to turn it.

I had two rollers left over so I replaced the worst of the 3 left on the regulator.