Shattered drivers door window

[Robbie]

I'm trying to get the interior door panel off of my '87 R30 truck, and I cannot figure out how to remove the window crank & disconnect the lever that opens the door?  Any help you can give me woud be greatly appreciated--as well as any other info you might add in regard to placing the window glass when I am inside the door panel.  Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.

[87OldYeller]

there is a little clip that holds the crank handle on, you can get it off with a flathead but there are better tools, but if you can get that off then the handle should just fall off and usually if you pull the door handle as if you we going to open the door and while holing the handle to the open position pull the panel out it should slide past the door handle without having to remove it.

[Blazin]

Pull a shop rag down behind the window crank, and drag it around the shaft. Just make sure you have your hand ready to capture the clip when it comes out of there at about 100 MPH.
 The panel slides past like 87OldYeller says.
As far as the glass, the base that holds the glass will slide out off the rollers. You will need to unbolt the bottom of the back track, and the window regulator. To install the new glass. Slide it down into the door, feed it onto the rollers, then feed the door rollers into the track on the inside of the door. Then rotate the regulator until the four regulator bolt holes for it line up with the holes in the door. Start them, roll the window up, put the rear track bolt back in, tighten the regulator bolts. Reinstall the panel.

[Robbie]

Thanks 87 Old Yeller & Blazin for the info. Once I pushed back the door panel and relized their was a black plastic disc covering the clip it was easy to get things taken apart. Picked up a replacement glass at the salvage yard Yesterday for a $Grant, so now I'm waiting for the temp to get some where above freezing to put things back together. I was asking the guy at the salvage yard about reassembly and he said the wing vent also had to be removed to get the glass back into the door. In your reply Blazin you mentioned sliding the glass into the door. Is the glass being turned Ninety degrees before you slide it into the door?

[1983stepside]

also if your window broke, you may not be able to get all the little peices of glass out of the bottom of the door, do what we did when i worked in a body shop was clean it out best we could, then take spary on bed liner and spay it in the bottom of your door, and when it dries it will trap any peices you may of missed or couldnt vacum out, that way you wont have to listen to them rattle around just an idea, and it does work

[Blazin]

The guy at the junk yard is an idiot! No need to remove the vent window assm. Turn the glass 90 like you said it slides right in.

I have never had a problem getting the glass out with a decent shop vac. and a narrow extension.

[1983stepside]

well just saying if you cant get all the BROKEN glass out for what ever reason that spraying the bedliner out of a can works from keeping it bouncing around and annoying you

[Layne]

That is my most hated sound in the world accompanied with a ses light. lol