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WELL!
Out in our '66 landau and my beloved found the passenger window didn't want to go down, it's done that in the past once or twice. over the last decade or so.
The cure used to be to take off the door card (and all that go with it!) and slacken the four bolts holding the electric motor and mechanism in place then hit the switch again, normally the bit of play resulting from slackening the bolts frees up the window.
Not this time!
Mrs Scumdog operated the switch but the window still only wanted to go up, not down, after I took out all four bolts completely and a few tries she succeeded in winding the rack right off the little pinion, now we're in the doo-doo! -then the rollers came right out of their channels leaving the window free to drop (But see below) in place, now we we're in deep doo-doo!
After painfully wrangling the whole shebang out the door I retired to the workshop and with the aid of a battery, some small jumper leads and a vice I managed to get the rack and pinion working together and attempted to introduce the set-up the window, much sweat (and a few nasty words from me) Mrs Scumdog and I came to the conclusion that the three rollers were never going to get into their appropriate channels
So, we came to realise the best chance was to remove the short channel that is attached to the inside of the door with two studs that go through two slotted holes , (took photos of where the bolts were positioned in the slots), we removed it and got the other two rollers into their respective channels then replaced the aforementioned short channel after sliding it onto the roller.
Hooked up a battery using jumper leads to the motor and the window worked!!
Turns out it was only the dang switch that was faulty!! - it worked for going up but not down. (Now adjusted so it mostly works, I could be looking for another one soon though)
So the tip is: Take out that short channel when refitting the rollers to the channels - and use a 19" or so of wood to hold the window up to give your hands a spell from holding up the window.
Out in our '66 landau and my beloved found the passenger window didn't want to go down, it's done that in the past once or twice. over the last decade or so.
The cure used to be to take off the door card (and all that go with it!) and slacken the four bolts holding the electric motor and mechanism in place then hit the switch again, normally the bit of play resulting from slackening the bolts frees up the window.
Not this time!
Mrs Scumdog operated the switch but the window still only wanted to go up, not down, after I took out all four bolts completely and a few tries she succeeded in winding the rack right off the little pinion, now we're in the doo-doo! -then the rollers came right out of their channels leaving the window free to drop (But see below) in place, now we we're in deep doo-doo!
After painfully wrangling the whole shebang out the door I retired to the workshop and with the aid of a battery, some small jumper leads and a vice I managed to get the rack and pinion working together and attempted to introduce the set-up the window, much sweat (and a few nasty words from me) Mrs Scumdog and I came to the conclusion that the three rollers were never going to get into their appropriate channels
So, we came to realise the best chance was to remove the short channel that is attached to the inside of the door with two studs that go through two slotted holes , (took photos of where the bolts were positioned in the slots), we removed it and got the other two rollers into their respective channels then replaced the aforementioned short channel after sliding it onto the roller.
Hooked up a battery using jumper leads to the motor and the window worked!!
Turns out it was only the dang switch that was faulty!! - it worked for going up but not down. (Now adjusted so it mostly works, I could be looking for another one soon though)
So the tip is: Take out that short channel when refitting the rollers to the channels - and use a 19" or so of wood to hold the window up to give your hands a spell from holding up the window.
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