Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 21:04:50 GMT From: Paul Halliday <pjghnospamyonder.co.uk> Subject: Re: Stuck Electric Window Regulator
in article slrnccp7ov.abd.rotten_NOSPAM_nospamam.example.com, John B at rotten_NOSPAM_nospam.org wrote on 13/06/2004 19:38: > On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 12:24:48 GMT, Paul Halliday <pjghnospamyonder.co.uk> wrote: >> The car: 1989 SAAB 900 T8 > <snip> >> I'd appreciate some words of advice from people who have "been there ... >> Done that" - thanks in advance. >> > > > Paul, > > I've replaced one of these before, although it wasn't completely frozen in > place. I found it to be a fairly simple job with the help of the Bentley > manual. I think you will have to remove the glass to get the motor out. Try > spraying some WD-40 down onto the motor sprocket; maybe you'll be able to get > a > little motion out of it. In my case, the sprocket was badly rusted. > > Here's a summary of the procedure as detailed in Bentley (should be similar to > your Haynes, but I don't have a Haynes to compare with): > > Disconnect battery, remove door trim/moisture barrier. Remove weatherstrip > spring clips & interior weather strip. Disconnect motor electrical connector > (if you can reach it anyway). Get someone to hold the glass and remove the > screws that hold the glass onto the regulator (at the bottom of the pane) (I > think you need the window to be down to expose the screws through the hole in > the door). Then take out the glass (this takes some creative manipulations). > Then remove the four bolts which hold the regulator assembly to the door, and > take the whole thing out through the hole in the door. > > Then just take the motor off and replace it. I replaced it with a new (used) > motor which has been working well ever since. Thanks John - that works very nicely with this article (the PDF) on this page: http://www.nospam.com/product_info.php?products_id=1640 Unfortunately, I can't get the motor to budge at all. I'm half inclined to smash the glass, replace the motor (which I can get a brand new one by tomorrow morning) and blame it all on football violence (what with having a Swedish car, eh?) and leaving the last part of the job to our friends at Autoglass :) At the mo', I'm stripped down to the bare door. I just can't get enough swing on the toothed mechanism (with the motor attached) to get the thing out of the door. Grrr! I'm sure there's a "trick" to it somewhere - I know my garage could fix it! Paul 1989 900 Turbo S http://saab.go.dyndns.org/
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