Question about vent window.
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Question about vent window.
The handle on my driver side vent window has broken off. The truck is a '94
F-150. The handle is actually still intact, it broke off flush with the metal bracket deal that attaches it to the window, snapped the little rectangular stud that the handle attaches to off. Rust and my own brute strength caused this to happen, and I need to know how to fix it. I like to whistle, but now so does my truck, and it only knows one tune; ANNOYING!!! So, do I have to replace the whole window, or can I somehow pull the metal bracket off and replace that and put a new handle on? I don't know, so yall tell me
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F-150. The handle is actually still intact, it broke off flush with the metal bracket deal that attaches it to the window, snapped the little rectangular stud that the handle attaches to off. Rust and my own brute strength caused this to happen, and I need to know how to fix it. I like to whistle, but now so does my truck, and it only knows one tune; ANNOYING!!! So, do I have to replace the whole window, or can I somehow pull the metal bracket off and replace that and put a new handle on? I don't know, so yall tell me
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if you broke the stud mounting then you maybe able to weld it back on or weld a replacement back in its place using an mig or tig welder..if you do it with the glass still intact lots of heat paste..or you could just find a salvage yard and take a wing window out of a 92 thru 96 F 150, F250, F350..
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really? It seems on our old 86 F150, the drivers side plastic rectangle handle was broken, my dad bought some sort of metal device that served the function of that plastic one, it wasn't as convenient. Maybe if you can't find one, you could make one. It was a hand screw that held a metal bar and then a thing for the metal bar to slide back and forth in.
I'll ask him, see what I can find out
~Matt
I'll ask him, see what I can find out
~Matt
