power window motor?
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very good point! i think ill just fix what i need to on the cheap end. thanks for the help and yeah i think ill be fine doin it but if you can post some pics as a reference that be great!
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My power window problem ended up being the plastic bearings in the motor...
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93_F250, wow man, you really did it the hard way - if you drill and grind like I mentioned all you remove is the motor and gear box assembly, the arm and linkage stays in the door and there's no need for replacing rivets and all that.
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But the trucks running good - so I'm driving to Tijuana in early AM... 3 days of Bull Fights and Negra Modelo.....
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Just a heads-up, if the motor has never been replaced you'll have to drill holes and also grind a slot in the inboard sheetmetal skin of the door. Basically the motor assembly is held to the window regulator assembly with three bolts, the front bolt you can get with a wrench but the top and the bottom ones are buried but there are small dimples as if from a punch in the sheetmetal that hides them - you use these dimples for centering your drill and go to town, a 1/2" hole allows you to freely insert a 5/16" or 8mm 1/4-drive socket and reach the offending bolts, the front bolt you can fight with the wrench but I just made a slot over it and used socket there as well. Why the factory didn't put holes there I dunno, they took the time to make the dimples and there are tons of other holes already cut in the skin so why not make just three more is beyond me...
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That's cause you were doing it the hard way, I did the same thing first time around but then found a trick to it - you insert the small gear on the shaft and in the big gear deep enough to where the gap between the edges of the two gears is small enough for one 1/4" nut to barely fit - you insert one nut in each slot and then carefully push them down a bit but not all the way down, you want them to sit pretty much flush with or slightly below the edge of the large gear, then you insert the second layer of nuts and press down on the small gear real good, basically you use the small gear to compact the whole assembly. Does that make any sense? lol
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That's cause you were doing it the hard way, I did the same thing first time around but then found a trick to it - you insert the small gear on the shaft and in the big gear deep enough to where the gap between the edges of the two gears is small enough for one 1/4" nut to barely fit - you insert one nut in each slot and then carefully push them down a bit but not all the way down, you want them to sit pretty much flush with or slightly below the edge of the large gear, then you insert the second layer of nuts and press down on the small gear real good, basically you use the small gear to compact the whole assembly. Does that make any sense? lol
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well thanks to LCAM-01XA i fixed the window motor with like he said six 1/4" nuts 30 min of my time from the time i started getting the tools ready till the time i put the last one away and absolutely NO $$$! thanks alot bud! 
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I do the 1/4 nut fix on so many fords it's not funny. I have two waiting for it to cool down today right now. Usually takes me an hour a side to do the job. Although when your idiot friend rolls the window up on a piece of tree branch sticking in the window the window gives before the branch.
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It ain't just trucks, many cars use the same motors as well - basically when you pull the door panel if you see the tooth-rack medieval torture device instead of cables then in all likelihood the motor has the same setup and can use this backyards fix.
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Sweet thats good to know! i will definitely remember this one!
