Getting new tailgate window runners back on!!! *&%&£

[Sylux]

I'm ####ing fuming!!!!!

After taking most of the morning just to take the old runners off...I now can't get the new ones on!!!!!

Like shite am I going to smash the window...but if they don't go on soon...I'm going to smash the ####ing window!

These were £50 from Roughtrax and there's no way to get them on without too much pressure on the window.

I've tried lubing up with fairy liquid (great trick...usually, and it dries off) with no joy.

I've tried rubbers first then runners over the top. I've tried rubbers inside of runners first...and then try.

Nothing.

Any tips lads? I'm going to go mental

[BUSHWHACKER]

Rubber mallet and silicone spray. (Furniture polish works too)

[Sylux]

Worried about the pressure and damaging the new runners with my rubber mallet

Maybe opening them up, slightly, may help. Although in the long run...it may not.

All it's doing is stretching and deforming the rubber. It's that tight.

[BUSHWHACKER]

Fit the rubber into the channel, spray the glass edge and inside the rubber before tapping onto the glass.
It's toughened glass so swing that mallet with gay abandon.

[Sylux]

Yeh...you defo have to put the rubber in first (to stop deformation)...but the reason I'm worried over the glass is because you read (here) about how weak it is and will break under its own weight

Also...if I bash the runners...they'll bend and defeat the whole point in putting new ones on.

####ed off because I was mean to go and collect the kids today. Now I'm stuck with the dumb window. 2pm on a beautiful sunny day.

AGGGGGGHHHH!!!!!!

#### it...I'm going to swing with "gay abandon"!

[BUSHWHACKER]

At least the weather is dry where you are.

Have you tried 'sliding' them on from the ends of the glass?

[Sylux]

Cheers, man. But doesn't work as the rubbers go all over.

I'm ready to smash this thing up. If I bash it it'll break.

Unbelievable.

Nowhere has any tips. Just broken post after post of "read here".

I'm going to have to put it all back in and hold it up with something.

#### am I wasting a day on this crap.

[Sylux]

http://www.yotatech.com/f116/4runner.../#post51726710

Like you said...this guy found bashing the life out of it worked.

Thing is...if this window "can't hold it's own weight and will crack"...how the hell can it take a bashing.

The two major bits of advice (web wide), regarding this window, contradict each other.

Also it will ruin the new channels.

If I break this window...I'm screwed. 4 new tyres, timing belt to be fitted Monday, and loads of other stuff, mean I have no cash for a new one.

I'm so depressed.

[Sylux]

So the window can take some welly. But the runners can't.

DO NOT WELLY THEM!

Obviously I braced the insides...but in makes no difference. The least they could have done is included some plastic blocks that slipped into the channels and helped them keep form.