Vent window Pins

[Pa PITT]

.. So Someone posted that we can buy the bottom pin for our vent windows.
.. OK HOW DO YOU CHANGE THEM.
... MINE HAS BEEN Toast For about the last 4 years .. But I don't understand how you get the pin in place. If the top rivet is working .. and the glass is in place.. How does the bottom pin go into place.

 

[JAFO]

I have my old vent windows out on the shelf. Ended up buying the new assemblies. I think that bottom pin is welded or crimped in place to the vent frame some way. I'll take some pics. Early in my build I bought the pins to repair my vents, but then later I determined my vent frames were so rusty I couldn't save them. I have the pins in a box someplace. PM me with your address and I will snail mail them to you. I won't ever use the pieces and would be good if someone could. Think I have two bottom pins and the springs to go with them.

 

[Pa PITT]

.. Thanks ... I'll take a shot at it.
Pa Pitt ...aka Jay Pittman
2818 CR 429
Stephenville. Texas
76401.

 

[JAFO]

.. Thanks ... I'll take a shot at it.
Pa Pitt ...aka Jay Pittman
2818 CR 429
Stephenville. Texas
76401.

I'll dig around in my box of let overs tonight. Sure I have seen them.

 

[Pa PITT]

Thanks I've been in my shop the last few night. Last Night I saw another vent window.. I was giving my self high fives until. I realized it too was missing the pin.
... Now I'll ask another relative question .. How do you get the glass out of the vent frame without using a BFH.
It looks to me like if that glass has been in there since about 1972 . There's
. a big possibility .. It ain't going to want to come out .

 

[bronco t]

I took my wing window to an automotive glass shop, and they pulled the glass, installed the bottom pin with cool c-clamp rivet smasher (technical, I know), and charged me 20 bucks. it helped that the glass shop I went to was restoring someone's Windows for 50's caddy.

 

[deltarat]

I used a Irwin clamp I got at Lowes that you clamp by squeezing a grip and has rubber jaws on it. I clamped the glass and worked it back and forth to get it out. I bought new bottom pin but could not get the rivets to hold like I wanted and I think I just put small tacks with the mig to hold it.
$20 seems pretty cheap to fix the window. I would have done that.

 

[Pa PITT]

.. Great Keep any thought coming..

... Nick CAN YOU GIVE US A HINT.

 

[JAFO]

Window glass is just pressed into the the track with window rubber tape holding it, so the glass should pull out. I installed my own side glass into new window channels. Just take the window glass tape, wrap it around the edge of the glass and then push the new track onto the glass, making sure the track is located exactly where the old track was on the old glass. Installing the new glass into the channel was way easier than I expected it to be.

The glass in the vent windows should be pressed the same way, so should work out of the window frame with some effort.

 

[Pa PITT]

.. Yes I remember selling the tape to install the glass. I was just figuring that the glass would be a Bitch to remove from the framework.

 

[bronco t]

I found the tool that my window guy used, and it is pricey!

http://www.dkhardware.com/product-5...ssembly.html?gclid=CPG-sbre_M8CFQc0aQodeUEETQ

Maybe a modified c-clamp could do the same thing?

 

[JAFO]

.. So Someone posted that we can buy the bottom pin for our vent windows.
.. OK HOW DO YOU CHANGE THEM.
... MINE HAS BEEN Toast For about the last 4 years .. But I don't understand how you get the pin in place. If the top rivet is working .. and the glass is in place.. How does the bottom pin go into place.

Hey, sorry it has been so long. I had a heck of a time finding the parts. We've moved since I began my Bronco restoration. I finally found them in a box under a bunch of other junk. Good thing is I found a lot of other stuff in my search.
You still need them? I have two lower pivots with springs.

 

[Bradsp8]

Wing window lower pivot

If Pa Pitt no longer needs them please put me in line. My wing windows won't stay open and I need to do this repair also.

 

[dholder]

http://www.aircraftspruce.com/search/search.php?s=brake+rivet+tool&x=0&y=0

Any of these tools will work to set the rivets. I think I even used brake rivets in mine.

 

[JAFO]

These are the parts. A left and right pivot with springs. I bought these some years back from TBP I think. But the parts came in bags marked Dennis Carpenter. Ended up I couldn't save my vent frames (too rusty) and bought the new assemblies, so won't be using these. Pivot pins each came with two rivets. Jay has first dibs.

To do the repair would mean removing the assembly from the door so you could get at the bottom pin. But also, you need to get the glass out of the frame so you could install a rivet. Removing and installing the vent window assembly was very easy. I did not need to remove the glass, so no experience there.