This is for a 2000 4.0L Cherokee. The rear passenger side window is stuck in the up position. I've determined that it is the motor that has failed. I am in the process of removing the motor and regulator, but with the window in the up position, I cannot reach the torx bolt holding the window glass to the regulator. Is there a way to lower the glass manually or otherwise in order to get at that torx bolt? I didn't see a thread on this particular issue, so maybe I am missing a simple solution. Thanks.

 

I'm sure this may be a redundant question being the diagnosis that the motor is dead - But have you probed the contacts of the motor with direct power from per say a drill battery or directly from your jeeps battery?

Typically from my experience it's easier to access the windows bolt when the track is unbolted from the bottom mount, it's already pretty congested in the door as is but maybe with the bottom unbolted you'll be able to get a 1/4 drive ratchet and torque bit up to it ?

 

Thanks for the reply. Yes, I tested the motor with a DeWalt 14 volt battery. I just double checked to make sure the battery was charged.
I'll see if I have any more room after removing the bottom bolts.

 

I have extra doors that I might get squirted and put on my '00.
I gutted one of the rear doors completely.
To be frank even if I don't use them was just curious about how it did come apart.
LOL.
Anyway pretty sure the window was up and pretty sure I did not put power to it to lower it.
And don't remember anything difficult about it.
Did you unbolt the window regulator and the bottom and try to slide the bar over to get at the torx?
Cause my guess is that is how I did it.

 

Thanks Ralph. I did unbolt the regulator from the door and was able to push the bottom of the track back against the front of the door, but where the regulator and glass are attached stayed pretty much where it was. I did not try to move the track to the side. I tried using a long armed torx wrench, but the short side was too long.

 

Little more sure that I did not put power to the window to lower it.
Still can't say for sure if it was all the way up though.
And the reason I think that is going back through my pictures I came across these.


Want to say that my little jump box, the real small kind that you can also charge devices with, would be in the pictures.
LOL.

 

Upon a further search of my pictures now pretty sure that the windows were up.
Probably taken on the day I bought them.
LOL.

 

Thanks for the follow up pictures, Ralph. Maybe I can remove the fixed window first. That may allow the movement of the larger window to get access to the torx nut.

 

Good thinking.
I did not even think of that.
And might have done it that way.
Sorry it was just so long ago.
And even if it wasn't my memory is not what it used to be.
LOL.