Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 22:33:54 -0400 From: "Pavel Brun" <paul_brunnopsamail.com> Subject: Re: Well - I blew it
I know you don't want to hear this option, but I would suggest taking the car to the service center and paying some $$$ to fix it rather than spending your time and money to (and frustations) to try to fix this. Paul "Dexter J" <lamealameadingdongnopsamlamelame.org> wrote in message news:3EA0887E.4A118C2Enopsamlamelame.org... > Salutations: > > OK - here's what I've done.. > > My passenger window ('89 9000T CD) was grinding and got stuck fully open > even though I had warned everyone that it shouldn't be opened until I could > spend some time and perhaps money taking it apart and fixing it.. > > I got the panel open and found, as I suspected, that the upper wire had > slipped off the plastic disk and was working on the pulley shaft behind the > disk instead.. > > When I got the crochet needle in there and pulled the cable trying to get > it to slide back onto the disk - I overshot and the cable dropped off the > front of the pulley disk.. > > In my panic - I started pulling the cable off it's lower disk trying to get > some slack to put it back on the top and got the cable itself free from the > plastic stay on the window brace.. However, I then tried to get some slack > by turning the main window motor on and off - it consumed all the available > cable so that now - I have nice extremely short loop of cable with no slack > even though it's not attached to anything on the window and have rigged the > window shut with a tie wrap under the brace.. Which is good - as the > 'rainy' season is upon us here in Nova Scotia.. God help me if I hit a > serious enough bump though.. > > I have really messed up here and was wondering if anyone had any details on > how to get the cable to slack off enough to get it back around pulleys then > tighten it up enough to keep it there.. > > I assume I'm taking the whole assembly (save the actual glass and > associated lower clip) out - but surely there is some way to get the window > motor to play out enough cable so I can rethread it?.. > > Please advise.. I'm tapped as usual - so long and often overlooked details > would be helpful.. > > -- > > J Dexter - webmaster - http://www.dexterdyne.org/ > all tunes - no cookies no subscription no weather no ads > no news no phone in - RealAudio 8+ Required - all the Time > > Radio Free Dexterdyne Top Tune o'be-do-da-day > Andrews Kaye - Bongo Bongo Bongo > http://www.dexterdyne.org/888/092.RAM