Can someone tell me how to remove the power window motor on my 74.

Thanks in advance..

 

This is a post I made to another thread, but mine is a '72 vert. You need to remove the door panel, but that's a given.

This is all from memory, I have misplaced my service manual. When I took mine out, the window was first out, had to bump it up and down to line up the holes to remove the bolts holding it to the regulator. After the glass was out, I took out the regulator and motor as one piece, again bumping it up and down as needed to get it to drop it's rollers out of the channels and to angle out the large opening at the door's bottom. After that it was just unbolt the channels and small piece up on top of the door. I also took out and replaced the wiskers on the outside top of the door, I can't remember where that happened, in the process. When I put it back, I went in reverse order. The biggest problem was getting the window to work properly, as I didn't think to mark my channels location and in cleaning everything up, I eliminated any paint or dirt marks that might have indicated where to start. Just take a deep breath and go to it, it will sort of work itself out. Good luck.

PS I guarantee the second one will be easier than the first.

You can stop with the motor and then you need to line the regulator up so you can put a bolt thru to hold the spring. See service manual if you have one.

PS; Why are you removing it?

 

If and when you unbolt the motor from the regulator you might want to vice grip the regulator so the spring tension and scissors action of the regulator doesn't injure or completely remove any fingers.

 

I didn't take the window out. I ran the window all the way to the top and then used a wide piece of masking tape, applying half to the glass and half to the door to hold the window up. Then I removed the bolts holding the regulator in place in the door frame. I was then able to slide the regulator fore and aft as needed to work the rollers out of the slides on the window and door frame. You can then work the regulator assembly with the motor attached out through the access hole in the door.

I guess if your window motor is totally DOA then you might have to remove the roller track from the window to get it free from the regulator mechanism. My window motor was just very slow and weak. Getting the windows worked into the door frame on my '68 was such a PIA that I didn't want to remove it. I don't know if later year c3's are any easier.

Don't forget to block the arm in place with a bolt before removing the motor or the tension spring will unwind and give you a surprize, if not hurt you.

 

I'm removing it because it recently quit working. If I bang on the motor it will work, but only long enough to move it up or down once or twice.

Thanks for the info.