and the damned thing is STILL slow

not nearly as slow as before, but its still not as fast as the driver's side -- which is STOCK with about 56k miles on it.


brand new aftermarket (siemens) motor.

grrrr

 

grease up the track and the the gears

 

yea i sprayed it down with some white lithium grease, not sure how much that helped


shoebox, two suggestions for your R&R window motor tutorial:

1) make it big bolded red blinking text that the SMC in the door is bad for you, cause i aparently missed that and now i'm coughing up that crap. YUCK!

2) aparently 98+ doors are slightly different, they use different bolt holes in the motor and require different drilling spots. please update your site to mention this.

 

I do mention warnings about the material in the door panel (second paragraph with a red "Caution". It's up to the reader to heed it.

You are the first person to tell me that there are different mounting positions for the motor. I need some more confirmation on that.

 

thats why i said make it big bold flashing red text, silly shoebox thinking people pay attention to simple "caution" warnings


and as for power window motors

mine:
http://www.thesazi.com/ss/windowmoto...ndow_motor.jpg

yours:
http://shbox.com/page/windowmotor18.html

unless i'm looking at it upside down ... but my door also didn't have the same grooves, holes, and ridges yours did so it was very difficult to mach it up. i ended up drilling a pilot hole by accident to find the correct hole location ... DOH!

 

ohh, i see now. your pics are from the drivers side, and my pic is from the passenger side.

explains why its upside down.

 

You have a LOT of corrosion on that motor. I would be checking the wire harness and connector ends. It is helpful in some cases to clean the parts before relub. Also the window alignment adjusters can put dragging forces on the window if not set correctly.
My bet is on the connectors/wires being corroded.

 

I'm trying to R&R my motors. Both sides are pretty bad. The passanger side will go up most of the way, so I'm going to just try lubbing up the tracks for now.

I've removed the drivers side motor and am now trying to revive it. I connected it to the switch with no window attached and it would 'die' going up after about 1 second. I lifted up the seal where that gear is and sprayed a bunch of WD-40 in there.

After having it move down for a few minutes (with sprays every so often) I started on the upwards movements. They are working ok now. I can get the motor to spin for about 20 seconds before it'll shut off (Still with no window connected..) Right now it's resting in some solvents.

Tommorow I'm going to blow it all out, and fill it with some lithium grease and see how it goes. If the motor will spin upwards for 30+ seconds I will try to reinstall the entire assembly.

A question though, when you guys remove the motors, do you remove the scissor tracks as well? Or do you just remove the motor itself? I have a feeling these scissors are going to be a little aggravating to reinstall, anyone have any pointers?

 

read shoebox's site

as for all the work your doing, they're 55 bucks each brand new from autozone with lifetime warranty ... totally not worth rebuilding unless you make it beefier somehow.

 

Two threads discussing slow windows:

http://web.camaross.com/forums/showt...ht=window+slow

http://web.camaross.com/forums/showt...ht=window+slow

 

http://web.camaross.com/forums/showthread.php?t=269680

hmmm

 

hehe scott its reversed...

as for the thing, I can verrify it works just fine for 98+

And scott try that thicker wire crap out and tell me how it does.

 

I'll try the relay+thicker wire trick as well. I *will* get this working, as I really don't believe there's anything wrong with the motor.

 

whats reversed?

 

ttt


whats reversed? i'm thinking about doing this and it was never really explained in the original thread.