The last bit of the wiring that needed to go in was the central locking, and an alarm. I wanted to make sure that the motors did not get in the way of the window mechanisms, so I dug the old glass out to fit temporarily to check. The glass channel on the front door has two brackets that are riveted in, and one of them had broken off. The glass had to come out of the channel to put it back on, and there was a crack in the window so I carefully ran a knife through the existing seal and tried to cut it loose. It wouldn’t shift, even when I tried to melt it out with the heat gun so I had no choice but to carefully prise it off. It cracked some more, but stayed in one piece so I taped it up to keep it together and tacked the bracket back on. I wedged the glas in with some cardboard and fitted it back in the door. Windows! For the first time in years.

With that done, I positioned the motor where I thought it should go then marked and drilled it. I clamped it all up to test it before going any further, and after a few little adjustments it worked perfectly. I drilled the other hole for it and that was one done, three to go. The back door was a bit more awkward but worked fine after testing it. The one thing that was worrying me was getting the wiring from the body to the door as they are such a wide opening. I decided to go for it and drilled two holes and fed the lock wires through along with speaker wires. I heatshrunk it to hold it together as one lump, and fitted grommets into both holes. It needed to be bent down a little so that it stayed in the door frame area when it closed, but apart from that works perfectly. I did the same on the back door wiring, and fitted the other two motors using the measurements from the other doors. The front passenger door lock needed another clean up to work smoothly, and the rear drivers side is sticking too so that will need a clean when I turn the car round. Just the other two door looms and I can hang up my soldering iron for a while.