SQLGuy

Still could be a bad switch. These motors draw quite a lot of current. If the switch isn't making good contact, it may pass just enough current to get the motor to move a little bit. I'd still try swapping switches before opening the door panel.

The problem I've most often seen with these switches is not dirty contacts, it's that the contacts get hot and melt the plastic of the base of the switch; the contacts then sink down into the plastic so you have to push harder to close the switch. Eventually they sink so low that you can't close the switch anymore.

If you do need to get into the door, there's a nice writeup, with photos, here: http://www.landsharkoz.com/forms/928...el_removal.pdf.

DonS

I've got the same problem of a down passenger window and have isolated the problem to a seized motor. Need to be out and about in the car so while I'm waiting for a replacement motor is there not a way to go ahead and get it closed manually?

Alan

Well you can remove the motor - raise the window manually and hold it there - then reinstall the motor to hold it in position... door need to be opened up of course and quite a bit of fiddly work on the motor...

I'd be working on the motor first before re-assembly they can often be saved...

Alan

DonS

Thanks for the reply, Alan. Went ahead and pulled the motor. You're right, I might as well take a look at the motor and find out why it seized. I found the write-ups on it.

M. Requin

Another way to keep it up is have a passenger hold it while you drive around, OR raise the window and put a cable clamp around the guide tube.

Jetdriver69

The guide bushing on the regulator arm broke off on my 82.

Until I could pull everything out and fix it, I took a piece of PVC pipe and cut a slot in the end.

I pushed the window up and put the bottom of the window into slotted end of the pipe.

The end of the pipe rests on the bottom of the door. Window didn't move at all until I fixed the problem.

DonS

When I pulled the motor I used the clamp to temporarily to hold it up. Thanks!

FredR

If you here that click then it sounds to me like the winder motor is stalling.

I have experienced a number of times when the motor has stalled because there was too much resistance to motion caused by dried out grease. I cleaned all the grease off the moving parts and nowadays squirt a bit of WD 40 on the moving parts once a year- it is not exactly high friction stuff but the quadrant gear needs to be clean.

The main trick to r/r of this item is undo the [four?] bolts that hold the assembly to the door panel and then undo the three bolts that hold the motor to the drive assembly before trying to remove anything out of the door panel.

When you are used to what needs to be done I reckon you can get the whole lot out/cleaned and back in little more than an hour each side but the caveat here is that invariably something does not quite go to plan!

Regards

Fred

Alan

The few of these that I have fixed were just the motor and easily fixed with good cleaning of the motor, commutator and/or brushes.

In this case you can just prop the window up and remove the 2 motor case bolts. I'd start there.

Alan

danglerb

If the window isn't all the way down, pull up on the glass while a helper or spare toe pushes the button. I prefer to use a helper and put one hand on each side of the glass to push it up without any of me in the way.