Hey everyone,

Just got my 88 F-150 road worthy (bad spring shackle) and actually on a camping trip this weekend. Thankfully I'm about only about 2miles from my house but I digress

Having some trouble with the power Windows.

The passenger side window has worked wherever it wants, had it apart about to do the motor and it started working, put it back together and it worked for a while and stopped.

Fast forward to last night, had radio on listening to baseball, when the game was over, tried to roll up window and it wouldn't move. Then out of nowhere passenger side starts working like nothing happened.

Now tonight neither window works, and they are both down. Logically. Both motors appear to be drawing juice (volt gauge drops when button is pushed, can hear a little pop like a circuit breaker if you hold the button long enough, tried taping on the motors incase they were stuck, no dice. Replaced drivers side motor (before I owned the truck) tried swapping switches, nothing.

I just want my Windows to work correctly. Any suggestions or tricks? I'm still out camping and trying not to bring my work with me. Lol.

 

Bump, Anyone?

 

have you checked for power at the door jambs? pull back the rubber boots and inspect for pinched wires, could be that they are rubbing out and shorting.

 

Guarantee I know your problem. I just had this too and it's fixed. It's the plastic bushings that are in the motor under the cover plate. You have to take the motor out and take the plate to it off then it'll likely have a bunch of yellow pieces that were once 3 round cylinder shaped bushings. I'll find a pic of mine in a second. I'll post a YouTube video that helped me too. I think he used nuts instead of the actual bushings. If you need I have some extra bushings since the package was enough for 4 windows.

Oh and I was told and it makes a lot of sense that if you remove the speaker its much easier to hold the motor while re installing it. Another thing is you don't have to remove the door handle like this guy does.

One last thing I thought of is you need to hold the window up somehow. Don't know how that'll work since yours is all the way down but once you get it up I used duct tape to hold it up by taping to the outside of the window to the top of the door frame