96 Caprice Power Window Tract Guide Replacement

I've got the door panel off and the window mechanical and metal mechanisms are functional. I have got to get the white wheel tract guides into the tract and want to know what the proper way is to do this. Should I drop the front of the window and pry the tract or is there a slot in the tract I can insert these guides into. Would appreciate any assistance.

I've got the door panel off and the window mechanical and metal mechanisms are functional. I have got to get the white wheel tract guides into the tract and want to know what the proper way is to do this. Should I drop the front of the window and pry the tract or is there a slot in the tract I can insert these guides into. Would appreciate any assistance.


- drill out the pop rivets for the armrest support and the rivet at the back of the roller channel.
- the end of the roller channel is slightly crimped together; undo this with whatever tools you can so you can get the roller in
- position the roller in the channel, and then pop the stud into it using vice-grips.
- pop rivet things back in place.

As an aid I chamfered/countersunk the hole in the plastic guide to allow it to go onto the ball easier with less chance of damaging the guide.

Thank you for your responses and helping me in learning about this site. Wanted to give an update. I was lucky with this project. I was able to remove the glass with sash/tract attached without having to remove any rivets. Being limited on tools available, I slightly pryed the lower lip of the tract out enough to get in the universal replacements. The original parts looked more like shuttles; not round but oblong in the tract with a center hole for the stud. Once the guides were in the tract I used vice grips, needle nose pliers to eyeball the tract back into its original shape by curving the lip back up into position. I then used a c-clamp to force the stud into the hole of the guide. It is working correctly and don't want to do that again but unfortunately, all the windows seem to have come out of the channels at the same time. It looks like the original parts and replacements are made of nylon but didn't think they would all go at the same time. Again, thanks for all your help.-Terry

I got my pats from nassio. thry provided a complete removal and install guide with pictures.. The hardest part was getting the arm to pop back into the guide.. I as well used C-clamp. and though the window was gonna brake after it SNAPPED into place