I drilled out the old male protrusion from the lift arm. Grinder on drill to level out, and then drill bit to punch it out and enlarge the hole a bit. The replace ment piece fits in the slide, raise or lower winder to line up pieces, and then take a ballpeen hammer to flatten out the metal that is sticking out like an axle. What you are doing is similar to a rivet.
swmbo does jewelry, so I have seen her do this with her craft.
I did not get it real tight because of the lack of room, but I don't think there is a lot of in/out pressure only left/right. If it fails again, I have a second repair piece. Some sites say to take out the lift and flatten the connection. I was afraid I would never get it back in.
The first time I did the repair on another window, I drilled out the connector from both the arm and the slide, and replaced it with a nut and bolt. It hasn't failed, and that was the driver's window.
I had to fix the window because swmbo said it looked like _____ to have tape holding up the window. The tape was clear not duct tape!!!
The door panel is tricky also. unscrew everything, lift up with a putty knife from the back and front to elevate the clips straight up to release the panel.
Chuck
--- In diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com, audiolaw@... wrote:
>
> Chuck,
>
> I'm fascinated by your comment about the window lift. Nate just
> replace the lift units in the driver's side front and rear doors (300SD). The
> plastic slide in the rear door had split. We couldn't see anyway for it to
> be a replacement part. So we P-a-P'd a 'new' rear lift.
>
> Were you able to replace just the plastic slide piece? If so, HOW did
> you get it over the large rivet head that it fits around?
>
> The 300SD front door lift had broken two rivets, rather than the
> plastic slide piece.
>
> Tom
>
>
> In a message dated 12/20/2011 1:06:25 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
> jcrcpa@... writes:
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>
>
>
> On Sunday I finally repaired the rear window lift mechanism (the plastic
> slide had split in two)cheap part, my labor, also replaced the air cleaner
> mounts, replaced the two hood springs, and my aux fan switch arrived so that
> is next. Now I need to order the air cleaner mount bracket which has one
> end broken off, and a new antenna.
>
> Chuck
> 84-300sd
>
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