Need a side window expert (problem solver)

[Dibbons]

Well, have a probem with side window regulator slides. Put all the window mechanism back in the driver's door (except for the glass) and while testing the crank, I find the rear horizontal regulator slide wants to siide clear off the back of the track (when the window is about half down, I'm guessing). I don't see any other way of putting things back together (no, I don't have any fotos, diagrams, or drawings, and the FSM is not very enlightening).

I do see the rear of the track seems to be missing about an inch of its length, but it is is the same for the passenger side track, so I assume that is a factory stamping. Thank you for any and all help in this matter.

Pictures that follow in order are:
#! The plastic window regulater slide where the window would be about closed (up postition)
#2 The plastic window regulator slide about halfway out of the track and ready to fall out where the window would be about half closed/open. If I continue to lower the window frame it will fall out.
#3 The rear end of the horizontal slide (out of car foto)
#4 The front end of the horizontal slide (out of car foto)
#5 Picture of crank handle fastened to door
#6 and #7 views from the top of the vertical tracks where they are bolted at the window opening in top of door

 

[flypaper]

the 71 body manual goes thru a sequence to adjusting the glass in the door
i don't know what the 72 manual shows..
you probably have to adjust it better
that track looks ok to me

i have some pics
i did of a door tear down that might help you

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[Dibbons]

One additional comment: Being the fact that everything is bolted/screwed/attached/fastened within the mid-range of available adjustment (fore-aft, in-out, etc.) the track guide should not come anywhere near falling out of the track when the window crank is spun up or down, so the mystery remains.

Update:
I think I can answer my own question, found a foto of the window out of the car and it seems the stabilizer channel can fit one of two ways, the right way and the wrong way. Rotating it 180 degrees, the holes still line up with the holes in the window the same way, but it reverses the side that has the short channel with the side that has the longer channel-this will give me another inch or so of channel "run" toward the rear (what I need) and about an inch less of channel "run" toward the front (where I have too much). This is a case of where two heads are better than one, and show the disadvantages of working alone. Another set of eyes probably could have pointed this out to me long ago. I recommend placing up/down and fore/aft arrows with a marking pen (as well as the usual fotos) before disassembly, can save a lot of grief if one does not mind taking the time to use some "constructive graffiti". I hope this thread was both entertaining and educational.