I tore apart my door pannel today to replace the electric window motor. But when I drilled out the rivets that hold the motor to the moon shaped gear, the spring flew off with the gear. I looked in the tech. articles and found the instruction on how to do this procedure, it would have been nice to have those in the first place, because it would have saved me this trouble! Now I got the new motor, and I am going to install it but I need to know how much I should wind up the spring? Oh, and as long as I am writting this, what one of those arms slide into the track first? When I was taking it apart I couldn't see how it was all working, and didn't see the order they are when installed. Thanks for the help.

-Eric

 

some pictures of the window regulator assembly with the spring attached are avaliable if you follow the link in my signature.

 

Well I put it in with a half of a turn, it would have been real hard to get a full one in there. When I finally got it all put together again the window comes up alot slower than the window on the other side. I think this is due to the spring, I should have tried to put another turn in the spring. Also, after spraying some white lithium grease on the window, it slows down in one spot. It will be going fine then slow down, and start going again. I thought there was a sticky spot in the tracks so I sprayed more grease on it. It was fine then, so I thought I would grease it up some more. After that the window started slowing down in another spot. Any ideas why it might be doing this? I looked and it doesn't seem to be hitrting anything. Is it possible that I put grease on something that isn't supposed to be greased?

-Eric