I'm taking the power window motor on the driver's side out to have it overhauled, any pointers as how to do it? (i have taken the door trim a dozen times, so that will be no issue) i could use some directions or advice, just so i don't get down there and screw something up by being ignorant. Also, when overhauling the elec. motor, is there anything else i should be looking for? i will be lubbing the window mechanism as well, with graphite grease.

Thank you all in advance for your replies.

P.S.: The poll is there for some humor, have fun with it, i won't mind.

 

darn truck on fire, damn english is hard

I think the door cover is held on with plastic clips that are easy to break but easy to replace. They are like a fuzzy pin that pushes into a sheetmetal hole. It's like a tack, and I think the tool to pull them looks like a tack puller.

 

If you actually read more, you would find that that expression is used to actually avoid cursing...

If you're referring to the "in", look at your keyboard, do you see that vowel next to it? mistakes happen...

And also, damn, writting in a language that isn't your native language sure is hard, i still manage to have very few mistakes. You should try it some day too.

 

Not sure anymore but I think that the motors are rivoted to the door. Also I would swap out the gear pack while it is out. Ford used plastic gears and they are known for going bad. With my luck they would go south after I put it all back together. As for your use of the english language, I must say you do better than alot on this site. At least you use caps and punctuation lol.

 

Luckily that motor was extracted a while ago, so there will be no rivets (my guess), and the gears were swapped already, i guess that will make things easier.

 

Encho, when you get the door panel off. Where the motor assembly is bolted to the door. Ford was nice enough to put 3 dimples in the door frame. Behind the dimples are the bolts that attach the motor assembly to the door. Drill the dimples out large enough for a 8mm. socket to go through the hole. A 1/4" ratchet, 8mm socket and an extension, and your good to go. Have the window in the up position so you'll have room to get the motor out.
Kenny

 

Exactly what he said, word for word. I will just add that a 1/2" drill bit makes a nice and large hole for even a fatter 8mm or 5/16" socket to fit through it. 7/16" bit may be large enough too, but I always went straight for the 1/2", easier this way.

On the actual motor overhaul, do make it a point to check the condition of the three plastic dowels that live inside the large gear and lock into the smaller gear that slides inside it (large gear is plastic and usually white in color and is driven by the motor, small gear is metal and usually gray in color and it drives the window regulator). Those dowels are actually a safety thing, in case someone ever gets their hand or something stuck between the window glass and the door frame - the dowels will deform then and cause the small gear to skip inside the large one, and so the bodily appendage will not be hurt by the window too much. The dowels do deform and deteriorate with age and use, and when a window stops going up without help it is usually exactly those dowels that crumbled into pieces - every time I pull a window motor from a Ford truck I make it a point to remove these stupid things and replace them with 1/4" steel nuts (two nuts stacked per dowel location, six nuts total per window motor), as those will never fall apart and disable the power window. The downside of the steel nuts fix is that should someone's fingers get caught by the window they may very well end up being crushed by it, but my friends who get that fix know better than to blindly roll the windows up, and so a bit of common sense is all that's needed to avoid potential injury.

 

Thx guys! i already have the steel nuts mod done, so i'm guessing it's the motor itself that needs some care.