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I will probably “wing” it …thought a drawing would be helpful

I think Steve is selling the seatbelt anchor plates that go under the door.

IFF you do it right, you can grind off just enough that the remaining washer bit serves as the stop. I went too far, of course. I could add a stop. But I do like having the window as low as possible. But the window breaking through the bottom of the door is sub-optimal.

I’m no expert in adjusting doors, as mine would attest, but working alone, I used a floor jack to prop up the door between adjustments. For fine adjustments, I wrapped a dead blow hammer with a towel and while the hinge was loosely snugged, I would hit the door to make the adjustment. Did you look at any of the trunk monkey videos? They’re really funny!

When you grind those stop washers, you need to make a new stop. I think there’s a thread here somewhere about a guy who did this. I don’t remember specifically but I don’t think that bending the window tracks was required.

Next question: I cut the stop washers that keep the windows from going down very far. But now the windows are in danger of breaking through the bottom of the door. Has anyone bent the curved window tracks to give more clearance? And if so, how? I'm thinking of cutting a tighter curve through a 2x4, then clamping it to each of the lower legs of the track to increase their curvature slightly. It doesn't need much.