I’ve seen this topic discussed on various message boards, facebook groups and forums. The trouble is nobody really knows or can show you what you need to know to get the job done. I’m not sure I’m the guy to solve that riddle but what the heck.
The Shop Manual is woefully inadequate. Oddly I often see Dodge B series truck owners beat others over the head with “Did you buy the shop manual?!”. Well, I bought the shop manual, read the pages related to removing the drivers and passengers door window glass and still couldn’t figure it out all the way, until Alec Benjamin Heier stopped by the home shop and showed me hands on what worked for him. His solution was drop dead simple and we had the glass out in under thirty seconds.
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B Series Shop Manual
Shop Manual Winows Content
Windows & Trip Content
Steps Taken
Step 1
Step 2
Door Panel Spring Fasteners
Remove the inner door panels by removing the screws and prying out the door panel spring fasteners.
Door Panel Removal Tool Kit from Amazon
Tip: Pickup a gnarly nylon door panel removal toolkit from Amazon. Don’t cheap out. Some tough fasteners will only bend your tool instead of your tool bending those fasteners to its will.
You’ll want to use one of those pry tools to remove the window sweeper too. The glass won’t come out the opening with the sweeper still in.
Step 3
Remove the lower access panel. Easy peasy, six machine screws of substance. You might consider replacing these with shiny new ones?
Step 4
With the window rolled up. Remove the three bolts that are holding in the inner hidden window channel. These bolts are on the hinge side of the door and are vertically aligned.Step 5
Step 6
The glass will lift up, rotate ninety degrees and come up and out of the upper door panel window opening.
Take your glass to any reputable glass house for replacement. I use Black’s Glass right here in Fort Collins. They took the glass still jammed in the channel with no complaints.
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- Since 1908
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- Ugh, a Ford?!
Note: getting that bottom channel off the glass can be a bitch. Alex recommends putting the glass in a large wood vice, then hammer it off using a piece of wood against the metal edge. Suggest heating it up to very warm, hot even to make it a little more slip friendly.
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This is a really good post, and I’ve bookmarked it for our Pilot House club. I was curious how much effort goes into replacing all the window glass on these B series trucks and was stoked to have found this excellent and instructive post. Thanks 🙂
Hello Flash! I really like how you go about addressing keeping these relics still alive and useable. I need an expert in my garage to unravel my B1B problems as they occur, and believe me, there are plenty! Now, thanks to this post, I have been able to check one more item of the list. Like you, I found a glass house locally that was able to cut me new door and windshield glass. Thanks for putting me and my old gal on the right path.
Your website was recommended to me by my cousin – an old timer like you would would rather get his hands dirty than trust the work to someone else. I am not sure whether I’m a roll up the sleeves and get dirty kind of guy; only time will tell. At least I’ve started (on the door glass) so we’ll see how it all shakes out. Thanks for taking a little of the sting out of getting started.