Removing door panel for window fix

[etlsport]

oh yea.. dont forget to disconnect the tweeter wire and the power window switch!

[nfpgasmask]

Hmmmm, this thread made me think. I wonder if it would be proactive to go into my door panel and blast everything with a can of air to clean things up and spray all the moving parts with silicone lube??? Or would this do more harm than good? My window still goes up and down on the passenger side, but it is slow and it does lean forward quite a bit. I sprayed some lube into the channels and that does help for sure, but I was thinking maybe some preventative maintenance here would be a good idea.

Bart

[etlsport]

when i was replacing my speakers in the door and when i was running new wires (seperate occasions because im a dummy) i went ahead and sprayed some silicon in to the channels, only two drawbacks were i had to clean the windows more often because the silicon would show up on the windows, and i sprayed too much and it dripped down and drained out the bottom of the door.. which left runs on my cladding... i dont see how preventative maintence would ever be bad!

one more thing about the door panels.. when you take the tweeter pods off.. make a mark where the top of the door panel is on the metal piece back there... i didnt realize my door panel wasnt sitting all the way down when i put it back on, its a little tricky gettin it to sit all the way down, i ended up breaking a couple of the fastners because i just pushed thinking everything was lined up

[Ldub]

Another thought on the subject...
when I had mine off, the vapor barrier was a bugger to remove without tearing...whatever that goop is that holds it on is some STICK-E stuff.

Anyway, I ended up having to use my old v/b as a template to make a new one out of 4 mil poly...then just used duct tape to re-apply it to the door.

My $.02

[MZ-N10]

its easier to just cut the goop holding the vb with a utlity knife, after ur done just stick it back on and its good as new....

[nfpgasmask]

What the heck is a vapor barrier?

Bart

[Raque Thomas]

Thanks for the info etlsport - I'm going to try it this weekend. I wondered how that black part that houses the window switches came off. Hopefully I can get that part off without marring the plastic!

[Ldub]

What the heck is a vapor barrier?

Bart

Just a piece of plastic sheeting (film) to stop drafts from coming into the interior.
Probably also called draft stop. I used 4 mil poly, commonly used as vapor barrier behind sheetrock on exterior walls of houses.
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