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On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 21:24, Darvin Gomez wrote: > Hi all, > > It's been a while since I have posted...... > > Someone broke into my squareback today......they took some tools and some > other stuff. Someone violated my little car car. > > It gets me mad someone would do this but at least they did not take the > squareback. They got in by forcing the vent wing window in on the passenger > side door. They broke the latch/lock but not the window which is good. It > looks like it is riveted on there. > > Is is hard to replace this part? Does anyone on the list have one they want > to sell? Any help would greatly be appreciated. > > I have replaced them withour pulling the glass. You need to drill the original rivets from the bottom, and then working the old latch out from under the glass. Then lubricate the new latch and slide it under the glass, and re-rivet with pop-rivets. -- Russ Wolfe '71 FB AT '66 FB MT '64 T34 (not running) '65 T1 (not running) russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~