Damn Power Windows

[firelt90bronco]

I have a '90 with a problem in the passenger side window. The motor works,, but the window won't go up or down, it just bounces until you have to push it up with your hands. How do I fix it? Why does it have to break on the night before it rains?

 

[Bully Bob]

----"Why does it have to break on the night before it rains?"----

....MURPHYS LAW...

Remove door panel....Insp. for broken gears (plastic) or other failed parts.

Grease the new parts up & good to go....

 

[Wormy]

It sounds like the window has come out of the metal holder that it sits in. There is a peice of rubber that goes inbetween the glass and the metal, and over time the rubber piece will dry up and deterioate to the point that it will not grip the window any more.

 

[Seabronc]

It is very likely that the drive gear has self distructed. The part looks like the attached picture. Remove the motor and look at the drive gears, you will probably find it is just a bunch of little pieces. If that is what it is, let me know I have two sets of them in the garage that came from bad motors but the drive gears were good. The little round yellow things you see will occasionally disintigrate.

Another possibility is the window is off track or what Wormy said.

Good luck,

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[firelt90bronco]

I think its is the drive gear, its been giving me trouble up til' yesterday.

 

[va92bronco]

It is the round plastic gear drive bushings in the motor. They sell them at Auto Zone in the HELP section. They cost like two bucks. Pull the trim panel and pull the motor. The easiest way to pul the motor is to drill two holes in the inner door skin to get to the motor mounting bolts. There are dimples in the skin just in front of the bolts so you know were to drill. Then you can just use a nut driver to get the motor out. Replace the bushings and reinstall the motor and you are good to go.

 

[firelt90bronco]

I have the original tailgate in my yard (redneck thing), so I pulled the power window motor out of that and replaced it with the door window motor. Haha its the same motor!

 

[Seabronc]

I have the original tailgate in my yard (redneck thing), so I pulled the power window motor out of that and replaced it with the door window motor. Haha its the same motor!

That is one of the advangtages of having a few things laying around just incase /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" /> .

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[firelt90bronco]

That is one of the advangtages of having a few things laying around just incase /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" /> .

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Just incase? I was too lazy to take it to the scrapyard, then grass strted growing around it and it got lost in the bushes.