I (with a little assistance from Mrs B) got my butt out to the garage yesterday and did a little work.
I found out just what an art 'roping in a window' was. It took three attempts to get this window pressed in properly....and when I stood back to take these pictures, I realized I needed to install the lower trim piece BEFORE the window gets installed. #weightreduction
Then, since I'd had [some] success with the quarter window, I moved on to the driver's window regulator swap. I've had a set of manual (parallel arm) regulators for a while. The passenger side was already manual, with some wonky power conversion. But the driver's side had been converted properly, so I had to swap the whole regulator assembly. I'd read that you needed to swap the rail/channel that the window sits in and the regulator actually pushes up/down. I was under the impression that it was because of the sliders/rollers being quite different. So I endeavored to swap the rollers from the power setup to the manual reg and then shove it all together.
LOL JK
The other, unbeknownst to me, reason you have to swap the channel is because the power channel is too far forward for the manual reg and when lowering the window, the manual reg just rolls on out the back of the channel. (insert expletive riddled rant here)
I'll get a picture later. But for now, I'm off to the classifieds to find a window rail/channel as I'm far too cheap to spend money on a new one.