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Fjord’s door panels are back on, with the new door brakes, cleaned latches and locks, dampening and sound insulation, and of course grommets.  Windows and vents are tightly bolted in, and the height/fit good.  With the windows down, the doors close like an expensive coffin’s lid.  Shoonk.

 

But with the windows up, they sometimes close with a clank.  And driving with the windows up, I still get a clank going over bumps.  The windows are in the channels tight, the channels look tight, and when I push pull the top of the window it does not clank.  I can lift/depress the window by grasping and pulling up/pushing down, but only an inch or so, and it’s not noisy whenI do.  So I’m wondering: where isthat clank coming from?  Hard to imagine there’s not already a thread on this, but I’m not finding it.

 

Oh yeah, I can drive with the windows up in FL in late May because the ICE unit is in and working. Still working out the finer points of the install, will report on that as soon as I feel it has reached optimal performance. Ken

‘74 Fjord 2002tii (Zouave)

’80 Alpenweiss 528i (Evelyn)

’05 R53 Chili Red Mini S

‘56 Savage Model 99 in .250-3000

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Didja replace the little plastic grommets on the rod that connects the inside door handle with the latch on the door's trailing edge?  And the grommet on the lower end of the locking knob?  

 

With the window up, especially on a squarelight car with the side beams in the door, the pantograph arms on the window regulator may be hitting the side beam.  You're gonna have to remove the upholstery panel (again!) and drive around to find that clank.  

 

One more thought (although a black swan)--did you carefully check to see if there's the remains of an old door check strap spring lurking down in the bottom of the door?  If one broke off many years ago, a piece may be hidden in the lower front corner of the door, under the hing reinforcement panel...

 

Let us know whatcha find...

 

mike

'69 Nevada sunroof-Wolfgang-bought new
'73 Sahara sunroof-Ludwig-since '78
'91 Brillantrot 318is sunroof-Georg Friederich 
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All great observations, Mike.  All 6 new grommets in, and in the process of degreasing and cleaning the door skin in prep for sound deadener I found every last old door brake artifact.  And scraps of factory sound deadener -- interestingly, the factory sound deadener patch on both doors had broken down and fallen off, leaving a rectangle of light surface rust (since POR'd).

 

So I'm guessing that your second paragraph is where the money is on this one.  That or I missed something loose in the window framing.  I'm going to try shimming the window from inside with some foam or something stuffed between interior trim and glass, and see if that kills the clank.  Regardless, looks like that panel is coming off again.

‘74 Fjord 2002tii (Zouave)

’80 Alpenweiss 528i (Evelyn)

’05 R53 Chili Red Mini S

‘56 Savage Model 99 in .250-3000

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