Question about window regulators
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Racer
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From: Cordova, TN. U.S.A.
Question about window regulators
My regulators have plastic rollers that ride in tracks. Some rollers are lose and wobble, other are tight and barely rotate. Which is correct. Are the lose ones wore out? Or are the tight ones binding?
Team Owner
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From: Orange Park Florida
Re: Question about window regulators (Shaggy)
IF you take it all apart and soak in a pan with gasoline for a couple of hours you will find the rollers and everything is fairly loose, and will roll just fine...
but you gotta scrub the dried grease from the tracks and such completely....
I never used anything on my tracks when I did my install 7 years ago....work fine today...mostly in Florida sun now when doing that also degrease and rework the motors....and of course the sector gear is famous for rusting out and falling apart....so when you buy new ones....like Yogi Bear someone... you need to heavily paint and grease the new one's so they will never rust again....
GENE
but you gotta scrub the dried grease from the tracks and such completely....
I never used anything on my tracks when I did my install 7 years ago....work fine today...mostly in Florida sun now when doing that also degrease and rework the motors....and of course the sector gear is famous for rusting out and falling apart....so when you buy new ones....like Yogi Bear someone... you need to heavily paint and grease the new one's so they will never rust again....
GENE
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Racer
Joined: Feb 2001
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From: Cordova, TN. U.S.A.
Re: Question about window regulators (mrvette)
Thanks for the help. I already used gasoline on the tracks. This is one of those thankless jobs. You have to do all the nasty, hard work, and yet no one ever walks by it and say, "Wow! Great window regulators man. You should be proud."
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From: Okeechobee Florida
Re: Question about window regulators (Shaggy)
go to this link and it will probably answer most of your questions...
i bought all of the parts and my windows will be rebuilt next saturday :yesnod:
BTW...there is one part that they dont mention that you will need in order to a complete rebuild...i dont remember off hand what that part is...the parts are all at my shop...
if you get the parts from Zip as i did they can tell you what that part is... http://zip-corvette.com/techarticles/win/win.htm
i bought all of the parts and my windows will be rebuilt next saturday :yesnod:
BTW...there is one part that they dont mention that you will need in order to a complete rebuild...i dont remember off hand what that part is...the parts are all at my shop...
if you get the parts from Zip as i did they can tell you what that part is... http://zip-corvette.com/techarticles/win/win.htm
