Parts for '59 Miller Meteor

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Loren Baldwin

Hey all, I'm looking for a few parts that I'm hoping someone will have. I'm in need of the entire rear window channel pieces, the ones that attach to the glass and regulators. Mine have all rusted out and I have no way of putting the windows on the regulators. Also I'm in need of a battery tray since it appears there isn't one in all of my jigsaw puzzle pieces of parts. I really don't want to spend $230 at USA Parts Supply for a new one...
 
No? Nobody wants to help? Thankfully I did find the sash channels at both steele rubber and rubber the right now, but they're just channels, no mounting brackets. Guess I'll have to fork over the money for a battery tray though...
 
I would be willing to bet you'll have to make a new run Chanel for the glass. that would be one of those things that is gone on most every car. the all got the same treatment and are the same age. it's not that no one wants to help it's that no has what you need. drop down to a locale heating ans sheet metal shop with your old one and they can bend you up a new run Chanel. then move the slots from the old to the new. there maybe a guide on one end to. if not I would think of putting one on. a glass shop can assist in putting the new Chanel on the glass. most of this stuff you will have to make new, or rebuild the old. there just not something you can run down and pick up. as for the fuzzes a dap of silicone will hold it in place they just pinched it between the molding on most of these cars. if they need to shim the back side they glued layers of naile one to space it out to fit. the battery tray is were you find one. 250 sounds a little steep to me try http://www.caddydaddy.com/cart.html
 
Danny Ryder said:
Would love to help, you can have mine but can't separate so take whole car! Joking guy! Keep up the good work.
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Haha, thanks Danny! Had I not been knee deep in this restoration I would've taken you up on your offer, or at the least taken that 67 off your hands ;)

John ED Renstrom said:
I would be willing to bet you'll have to make a new run Chanel for the glass. that would be one of those things that is gone on most every car. the all got the same treatment and are the same age. it's not that no one wants to help it's that no has what you need. drop down to a locale heating ans sheet metal shop with your old one and they can bend you up a new run Chanel. then move the slots from the old to the new. there maybe a guide on one end to. if not I would think of putting one on. a glass shop can assist in putting the new Chanel on the glass. most of this stuff you will have to make new, or rebuild the old. there just not something you can run down and pick up. as for the fuzzes a dap of silicone will hold it in place they just pinched it between the molding on most of these cars. if they need to shim the back side they glued layers of naile one to space it out to fit. the battery tray is were you find one. 250 sounds a little steep to me try http://www.caddydaddy.com/cart.html
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Thanks for the advice Ed. I'm actually missing more than just the sash channels as it turns out...I'm short 3 of the mounting brackets and 2 guides that attach to the rear window regulators!
 
The right is a mirror image of the left, so if you have one from either side, they other can be manufactured. It isn't going to be cheap, but it can be done. You will need to find a machine shop that has time and knowledge to do this. I don't think that a sheet metal shop will have heavy enough steel to do this project. You can also hunt the salvage yards that have older cars, and see if you can find a old GM car and get the parts from it. Then it would be just modifying them to work in your car. The basic bottom frame is usually similar between the brands, with only length being the change depending on glass size.
 
The window channel is going to be a universal item. Go to a junk yard and pull one from basically any old car. Cut off the tabs, and weld up what you need. I fixed my 63 Superior channel that way. Used a 72 chevy truck glass channel.
 
Paul Steinberg said:
The right is a mirror image of the left, so if you have one from either side, they other can be manufactured. It isn't going to be cheap, but it can be done. You will need to find a machine shop that has time and knowledge to do this. I don't think that a sheet metal shop will have heavy enough steel to do this project. You can also hunt the salvage yards that have older cars, and see if you can find a old GM car and get the parts from it. Then it would be just modifying them to work in your car. The basic bottom frame is usually similar between the brands, with only length being the change depending on glass size.
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I actually talked to a local fab shop about making the mounting brackets that attach the channels to the regulators, so we'll see how that goes.

Russ Austin said:
The window channel is going to be a universal item. Go to a junk yard and pull one from basically any old car. Cut off the tabs, and weld up what you need. I fixed my 63 Superior channel that way. Used a 72 chevy truck glass channel.
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I bought a set of what was described as the correct complete channels from USA Parts Supply. When I got them, they were completely different than what I needed. The channel itself is the same, but the brackets were totally different. The eBay link that Jeremy has so awesomely shared is exactly what I'm looking for, thanks Jeremy!
 
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