Gracie II the D21

[HRH]

So if you look at where my fingers are one side of the rubber is tight up against the door edge and the other is not tight. As you can see when it's pulled back the rubber isn't seated above that little cut out in the top edge. Make no mistake it's a giant pain in the ass to get it to seat correctly so using nylon panel / trim removal tool like the kind you find at harbor freight for 10 bucks walk it from the one edge in the corner all the way down. The inside edge has already seated which means now you just have the other edge on the outside of the door. It's definitely an arm workout.

[HRH]

Make sure you take off the mirror too and the little silver bits on the inside trim piece like to fall out FYI. Also a little clip that holds them in can be gotten from the outside of the door. That way you don't break it trying to take it off.

[HRH]

What a fiddle fuck! The lines on my wrist are from trying to get the front channel in through the speaker hole. Just have to locate the rear lower channel and should be good to put the out trim edge on, then the inner on the door panel and reassembly.

[HRH]

Sometimes I don't know what Nissan is thinking. This has to be the worst design because the inner edge piece that meets up with the outer door glass squeegee has to overlap the end of the trim piece by about an 1/8 inch. Getting them to meet up satisfactorily is just ridiculously annoying. I finally got it after resetting the new outer door glass edge about 50 times. The trick is to get the inner door seal loose all the way down up to that then where it comes around the window opening then put the back edge of the outside moon in first with enough so you can weasel the lip over where it's supposed to be on the inside rubber and then tap down the rest of that then reset the inner door seal below the window edge.

[HRH]

Got the glass back in, the window is super tight. Not unexpected, but going to get some silicone spray to try and help it along while it wears in.

[HRH]

Weasel says that sandwich looks pretty good dad, you sure you don't want to share?

[HRH]

Take a small screwdriver and bend out these tabs, then they mostly pull straight out with a little finegalling

[HRH]

So I did check and this is the molding for the d21 not the Pathfinder. Unfortunately three of the little metal tabs are in the right position, the other four are not.

I'm thinking I'll just make the holes in the door panel if three don't hold nicely.

[HRH]

The top edge is plastic, so just drill two holes side by side at the new location and use the drill to wallow through and connect the holes. Works like a charm. Make sure the edge is over the lip of the door panel when squeezing the tabs.

[HRH]

Okay so I tried to put the new one on and it fits but it makes it so goddamn hard to roll up the window that I'm probably going to break the window crank doing it. So I put on the old one again and the window works fine. It is a smidgen thinner of course maybe it wasn't that way when it was new I don't know. Either way the window works with all the rest of the stuff so I'll keep it going like this and then eventually after it wears in maybe I'll try that inside seal again.

[HRH]

The second side went much faster than though I had to fiddle with the window regulator quite a bit more on this side. This side doesn't fit has nicely as the other side or rather the length of the strip meant it went further backwards towards the edge molding. I even trimmed a little bit of the rubber squeegee on the front edge but either way it's in there and roughly correct it's just the back edge of that outside scrubber is a little too far into the corner of the window door edge seal. The front edge is a little high door seal too but we're talking a few half millimeters so I'm not a big deal. Either way it's good enough for now. The windows are definitely harder to roll up and down but I suspect they will wear in. The outside water intrusion will indeed be much less now that there's actually something to go against the window. And I shouldn't have that absolutely horrid screech when I open the window after it's been sitting in the sun and the old hard rubber squeegee made a fingernail on chalkboard noise as I rolled down the window.

[HRH]

Look what followed me home and has a donor high pinion front Dana 30! Not sure when I'm going to get to it, but the hardbody will be sas eventually.

[DRIVEN]

And it has the same bolt pattern as an 8.8 -- just sayin'.

[HRH]

But I already bought gears for the h233b. Gotta keep it mostly Nissan.

[HRH]

So this happened on Friday. 03 Cadillac CTS stolen by a methhead felon with a gun, decided to run from the cops and couldn't make the turn in front of my shop. The truck was parked straight prior to this. Anyway he hit the back and it launched it sideways and up and into the pole in front. Tweaked the left rear frame rail, but after the box section. Seems to drive fine. I haven't put it on the alignment rack yet. I think other than yanking out the back c channel and some bumpers and paint it should be good.

[DRIVEN]

Oh no! Did the gun make him do it?

[wayno]

I think it would have been a lot worse without the tow package.

[HRH]

Oh no! Did the gun make him do it?

Absolutely, all guns are evil. We should get rid of them all. Except mine.

And yes wayno, spot on. Really glad that was there to take the hit. I have the video on Facebook and Instagram, I'll have to upload it to YouTube and post it here. Not sure if I can post a link from ig.

[HRH]

https://www.instagram.com/tv/Cey5RPvJFE ... _copy_link



I made it easier for you guys.

[BLUE]

Damn.....probably the best outcome for a car wreck.