Hey guys, bought a sliding rear window for my 88 PU, and now I
have to install it. Any instructions on removing the old window,
and installing the new one?
Anything will be greatly appreciated.

~Wade

 

After suffering with it for 30 minutes the wife came up with an
ingenious plan to make it work... and it did. I now have a sliding
rear window in my truck.

Nevermind.

 

The wife came up with the solution on a mechanical issue on a Yota huh?? Don't let her get away, she's a keeper for sure!

 

So what was the solution? My wife isn't like yours is and my 4runner was broken into last week. Spare sliding windows coming in this week but the install is still ahead...

Thanks!
Cheers
Chris

 

Wow... old topic eh?

Okay, here is what we did. Turns out, it was exactly the right thing to do
too. I think it is how the professionals do it.

Take the old window out. remove the rubber gasket and put it on the new window.
Install the window by putting the bottom half in first. Get the gasket
situated so the bottom is in totally.

Here is where you need two people. You can do this from the inside or the
outside. I found it easiest to have the wife pushing from the outside, while
I did the work on the inside.

Take a piece of string and lay it in the channel of the rubber gasket. I may
have put one all the way around, but I can't remember now.
As someone pushes from the outside, you pull the string, which in turn pulls
the rubber gasket inside too. I had to do a little tender work with a flathead
screwdriver for the last 3 inches or so... but it worked like a CHARM.

~castrol

 

Wait... I don't know about a 4Runner window. This was the back window for my pickup.

~castrol

 

Good enough for a starting point.
Thanks!
Cheers
Chris

 

The 4Runner back window is not installed in a rubber gasket. It's easier actually - put the tailgate down, remove the inner trim panel, use a screwdriver to latch the two latches so the tailgate thinks it's closed, place a stool or something to support the window when it comes out, and "close" the window, 2/3 of the way or so. Then you can disconnect the regulator and pull it out. New one goes in the reverse way.

 

Thanks Flamed
I'll need to do that operation on the rear window since the tint is coming off.
However, what I have is a driver's side sliding window pair that has no glass (i.e. that was broken during the burgulary), and, fresh from Nancy at Yotayard, a replacement set of sliding glass windows complete with frame.
Now I think it's a matter of removing the inner lining and ungluing the frame,then replacing the entire affair, it looks like.
If anyone can come up with a way to replace just the two sliding glass panels without removing the frame, that would be grand, but if the wrecking yard people ship it complete with frame then I guess that was the easiest way they know how to get the windows to me, so it would probably follow that to replace the entire frame with the windows installed would be the easier repair method.
I could be wrong...
Anybody?
Thanks!
Cheers
Chris

 

I haven't replace a Yota window, but I have done a few on other cars (mostly old cars) and was pretty easy. Access is a beeyatch. It conisted of unbolting one vertical track to get it loose and slipping the window in and getting the arms of the regulators throught the keyholes into their tracks, then getting the window into the vertical tracks then rebolting the loose track. The replacement window had it regulator channel already glued to it, so I didn't have to mess with that.

This is from the service manual for the 89-95 pickup:
13. REMOVE DOOR GLASS AND WINDOW REGULATOR
(a) Remove two glass channel mounting bolts.
(b) Place the glass in the door cavity.
(c) (w/o Ventilator Window)
Remove two equalizer arm bracket mounting
bolts.
(d) (w/ Power Window)
Disconnect the connectors, then remove four
regulator mounting bolts.
(w/o Power Window)
Remove three regulator mounting bolts.
(e) Remove the regulator through the service hole.
(f) Remove the glass by pulling it upward.

REPLACEMENT OF GLASS
1. REMOVE GLASS CHANNEL WITH SCREWDRIVER OR
LIKE OBJECT
2. APPLY SOAPY WATER TO INSIDE OF WEATHER–
STRIP
3. INSTALL CHANNEL BY TAPPING IT WITH PLASTIC
HAMMER

INSTALL WINDOW REGULATOR AND DOOR GLASS
(a) Place the glass in the door cavity.
(b) Place the regulator through the service hole.
(c) (w/ Power Window)
Install the four regulator mounting bolts, then connect
the connector.
(w/o Power Window)
Install the three regulator mounting bolts.
(d) (w/o Ventilator Window)
Install the equalizer arm and temporarily tighten two
equalizer arm mounting bolts.
(e) Attach the glass to the window regulator with two
bolts.

 

Dang, this is an OLD topic....

Does the install process go the same way for a 3rd Gen 89.5-95 pickup? I've got some rust bubbles happening underneath the paint on my slider, and I want a new one... but obviously DIY install...

This is a shot from 8 years in the future, I feel like Marty McFly here.. but anyone? Bueller?

 

Sure does...I also use a little windex to help the gasket slide into place.

 

Thank you Mr. Wizard!