Window rattle

[moparcanuck]

The window on the driver's side of my 69 GTX rattles when I close the door. I removed the panel and could not get anything to rattle manually. The pin on the bottom has the felt to stop it rattling. What could it be?

 

[70rr-brian]

Does the door lock work and the handle work OK? Maybe that has come undone and the act of closing the door makes it slap around inside. Just a wild *** guess.

 

[moparcanuck]

Door handle and lock work perfectly. Thanks for the suggestion.

 

[67 coronet]

look around inside the door and you should spot two things too close together.are there speakers in the doors?thats a common one.also check where the window ataches to the regulator for anything hitting there.

 

[moparcanuck]

No speakers. Not sure what the regulator is.

 

[Bolt-Action]

Sit down in the drivers seat with your legs out the door (like you're getting in/out of the car), remove the door panel.
now swing the door in an open/close motion, making sure when you change direction you do it quick to simulate the door closing.
if something's rattling, you'll find it!
Now, when you THINK you found the issue, isolate it with your hand, then swing the door again in the same fashion, if there's no more rattle (because your hand is isolating it) you got it,
HOWEVER, if it still rattles, keep looking,
grab, swing, repeat till you get it.
Used this technique many times.
*ONE word of warning!
DO NOT swing the door all the way open (till it hits the stops, you can damage your hinge bushings) and DO NOT close it on your legs! It hurts...

 

[Cornpatch MO]

You said it was the window rattleing. Is the felt in your front and rear window channels worn out and letting the window rattle in the channel?............................MO

 

[moparcanuck]

Thanks Bolt-Action. I'll try that.

Cornpatch, I'll check that out.

 

[69redrunner]

I would have put money on the pin for the wing window and track. But your post says you checked that. That is where mine was rattling from , but only when the window was rolled down.

 

[tallhair]

Is the window channel secured to the bottom bracket down inside the door? There's a rivet to hold the A pillar mast to the bottom of the door (bracket down there) and they come loose sometimes and the window rattles like hell when you shut the door.

 

[moparcanuck]

Thanks to your suggestions, I spent the morning fixing this rattle. Actually 3 rattles:

1- The rod from the inside door handle to the latch rattled in the hook/holder about the center of the door. I padded the hook with felt.

2- The window rattled in both front and rear channels. I padded the rear one with sticky felt on both sides of the channel.

3- The front channel was a little more challenging as the window is riveted inside another channel which follows the window up and down the exterior stationary channel (you follow me?). It was rattling in the inner channel. I took a bicycle inner tube and cut strips about a quarter of an inch wide the length of the inner channel and forced it between the glass and inner channel to prevent the rattle.

And Bob's your uncle. :blob1:

 

[TekHousE]

Good thinking on that 3rd rattle mate. Will have to remember that fix..