Aluminium Window Support Replacement
Discussion
Door panel off.
Lower window and undo 2 retaining bolts noting spacers between mechanism and bracket.
Lower window by hand and tilt backwards and remove through top of door. (this means you don't have to upset the alignment position of the rear runner)
Once out check the rear runner top bolt for being tight and check the bracket isn't broken.
The front support is attached in 3 places. Small 8mm bolts through the top edge, visible as you look at the small/short arm.
Second bold is into a captive nut in the door, halfway down and is 13mm.
Third is a bolt through a bracket at the bottom, awkward but achievable easily enough. Again 13mm.
When you extract, lift out until the bracket for the middle bolt won't allow you to bring through the top of the door, at which point turn through 90 degrees clockwise and then it will fit through through (just about the orientation). Mind also bringing the end out as it's also a bracket and need to be fed out.
I'd supply you pictures but I'm in Edi and the window frames are in Suffolk . .
I then polished mine properly with Sisal wheels etc to get a mirror finish, they are lacquered but look s
t after so proper polish and then finish with Belgun alloy as a polish and protecting wax. Nice and shiny ready for reassembly some time next month . .
Lower window and undo 2 retaining bolts noting spacers between mechanism and bracket.
Lower window by hand and tilt backwards and remove through top of door. (this means you don't have to upset the alignment position of the rear runner)
Once out check the rear runner top bolt for being tight and check the bracket isn't broken.
The front support is attached in 3 places. Small 8mm bolts through the top edge, visible as you look at the small/short arm.
Second bold is into a captive nut in the door, halfway down and is 13mm.
Third is a bolt through a bracket at the bottom, awkward but achievable easily enough. Again 13mm.
When you extract, lift out until the bracket for the middle bolt won't allow you to bring through the top of the door, at which point turn through 90 degrees clockwise and then it will fit through through (just about the orientation). Mind also bringing the end out as it's also a bracket and need to be fed out.
I'd supply you pictures but I'm in Edi and the window frames are in Suffolk . .
I then polished mine properly with Sisal wheels etc to get a mirror finish, they are lacquered but look s
t after so proper polish and then finish with Belgun alloy as a polish and protecting wax. Nice and shiny ready for reassembly some time next month . . 
http://www.thepolishingshop.co.uk/acatalog/Belgom....
Posting on Blackberry and was in a rush.
Best stuff I've ever used . . . Obviously if it's a lacquered finsh then not aplicable . . I only use this after an hour with 3 different grades of wheel and polish to get a great finish already, then use this to seal and protect.
You can get a great finish with it by hand, but the hour will be multiplied considerably.
Posting on Blackberry and was in a rush.
Best stuff I've ever used . . . Obviously if it's a lacquered finsh then not aplicable . . I only use this after an hour with 3 different grades of wheel and polish to get a great finish already, then use this to seal and protect.
You can get a great finish with it by hand, but the hour will be multiplied considerably.
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