I made a start on the vent windows on Saturday. The rubber seals must have been the original ones, and had gone rock hard. They were covered in silicone sealant as well just to make it even harder to clean up. I ended up cutting it up with a knife and scraping it out piece by piece. The bench grinder I bought a few weeks ago had fallen to bits, so I bought a better one and used it to polish up the frames. This one is more powerful, so it was a lot easier to get a decent shine quickly.

With the rubbers installed, I test fitted the window and checked the mechanism. I wasn’t happy with it, so pulled it all out and cleaned and oiled it. With that done, I fitted the pulls for all the handles and locks, and found the drivers door handle spring was busted. To make it worse, the inner skin is split too, so that will need welding up and bracing. I managed to pull the remains of the spring out and bend it over to make it half decent. I swapped it with the one from the back door just to be on the safe side. A quick tidy up of all the mess I’d made, and dug the master cylinder out ready to clean up for next week.