the passenger side window in my door feels like its slipping, well did week ago, now it feels like it only has one "tooth" catching. ( takes a full revolution for the window to go up at all) Any idea what this is? Or what the easiest and cheapest way to fix it is?

 

take your door panel off and look to see if anything is broken or it might just be full of dirt and crap. if something is broken,check junkyard for good parts. both my front windows are like that,if their rolled past the plate for the window vent lock, the cranks just click when rolled back up,i have to pull on the window until they catch and rolls up on its own. havnt gotten around to checkin or fixin them yet,since i need a whole new driver door anyways.

 

lol its not like it won't pull at all, it just pulls at the same point around. and it sounds like a gear trying to catch in the door. I pulled the panel off a while back and could find nothing wrong or broke that I could see. did find out its felt? that goes though a cable to work the window, but that doesn't seem to be the problem

 

make sure your handle is good, i have stripped the handle from sticking windows before and did similar things that you are talking about

 

handles good, took it off as soon as it happened, im thinking its the mechanism behind the handle

 

any news on how to fix this???

 

Guys, I posted a thread on this exact issue a couple weeks ago.

Basically what you are experiencing is that the gearing inside where the handle attaches is worn. This is a pressed together mechanism which acts as a type of worm gear or archimedes screw as it is attached to a inverted "V"-shape tube, where the other end is attached to the moving part that has the piece connected to the glass which rides up and down on a coil embedded with felt for smooth operation as you rotate the handle.

My problem was the gearing inside the handle part (not the handle itself, the housing the handle attaches to) was stripped.

Depending on your year, when you remove the door panel and the plastic sheathing, there are either 6 rivets or 6 bolts holding this mechanism in place. There is also a vertical flat plate "strap" thing which one side (bolt or rivet) has to be taken off in order to get the mechanism (i.e. regulator) out of the door panel.

Junk yard has them sometimes for like 25 bucks.

One caveat here tho folks......don't do what I did.......

When you re-attach the glass to the mechanism, MAKE SURE the little flat bar plate thing where the glass attaches is in the 12 o'clock position, not in the 6 o'clock position (relative to the tube it is attached to).
If you attach the glass with the flat bar at 6 o'clock the mechanism will try to ride up and over the curve of the tube and really f it up. You don't want this. So again, make sure that flat bar which secures the glass is facing 12 o'clock before you reattach the glass.

hope it helps!

cpnwrench

 

yeah mines still disabled yet to getting around to fixing it