I wish you luck, ive bent these back and reinforced tham as well to no avail. The design is $&#@. I plan to adapt a modern regulator to the coupe rear window next year for mine. Please let us know if you get this to work long term. I can get mine to work a couple times but after a week it just folds the parts up into a bent mess again. I believe the answer lies somewhere in the lubrication of the front rail as that is where the dustruction originates, the bent tab is simply an effect of the sticking front roller.

The reason they go half way down after they are bent is because the small arm over centers and goes past its lower mount point. In the correct function the small arm always stays above the regulator slide, when the tab bends it allows it to go past and then pull down instead of pushing it down which results in a huge loss of travel

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