Station wagon side windows

[John]

Regarding the 2 piece glass sliding window sections on the station wagon hard top sides. Due on my part for little or no maintenance or use for many years these glass panels are hard to slide and whilst they could be fixed I'm sure I will never open them again. I was wondering if I could remove them and replace with 1 piece of glass a side sealed in place without future drafts or vegetation growth.
Is a kit for this sold?
If I remove the existing glass, felt channels etc. would it be possible to manoeuvre one section of glass into the opening without cutting away sections of the existing alloy glass mounting supports, if you see what I mean..?

I feel its good to know before taking it all apart
and looking again I think it may be hard to get 1 section of glass in at both ends

[TimV]

Driving with fixed glass does mean the car can get quite hot and stuffy, an opening window at the rear would pull the air through. I havea spare set of sides with sliding glass in them, just got to redo the seals around the glass.

So I wouldn't recommend replacing sliding glass with fixed glass.

[GHOBHW]

replacing the channels is easy enough and well worth it, it is brilliant to have those windows opening in summer!

my tip though is to cut the bottom channels in half, then once you have the windows in, slide one bottom channel under the first glass, push the window to the side and drill your screw hole, then repeat for other channel, then again for the other glass and channel.

this way water cannot stay around for long, as it will leave via the middle of the cut channel, plus it means if you want to take the glass out, you only have to remove the lower channels and not the top and bottom channel as land rover intended....

plus flood the channels with hydraulic oil (or light oil of your choice) to save on moss growing on them within a month.

[diffwhine]

The Series 3 Club sells plastic runner kits for this purpose and very good they are too!
https://www.thelandroverclub.co.uk/product/window-channel/11?cp=true&sa=false&sbp=false&q=false&category_id=31

[John]

^^^ Thank You all
Yes I know its not that hard to replace these moss traps, I've done it before on front and these windows but now have ex. MOD door tops at the front with no problems and as both sections of these open I have never opened the rear windows and even on a hot day the roof top vents and those under the windscreen give great cooling and limits the windows to lock when parking as I fear I would often forget to close rear windows

However the plastic window pieces look good and would be cheaper than fixed glass, I might well give these a go when the weather gets warmer/dryer for non essential outside works