Date:         Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:45:42 -0700
Reply-To:     BenT Syncro <syncro@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         BenT Syncro <syncro@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: How does powerwindow motor come out of the door?
Comments: To: Mike <mbucchino@charter.net>
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On 3/11/08, Mike <mbucchino@charter.net> wrote:

> I had to bend and flex the tracks quite a bit to wrestle mine out, Ben.
> Even then, it was tough.
> I couldn't see any way not to.............
>
> Mike B.



Thanks, Mike. I will just have to try to wrestle it out. My tracks seem ok
that is why I want to yank out just the motor. Jim Felder gave me the magic
word to narrow my search. Once I ;lugged in his name I got this:

http://gerry.vanagon.com/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0601b&L=vanagon&F=&S=&P=24109

He took his tracks out so most will not apply to me. I have the motor
accessible by hand now so just a question of twisting it out.

On another matter, I noticed that every article I found on my search
mentioned having to re-use the old harness to hook-up to the new motor. My
replacement motor was in a Golf/Jetta rail so part of the Golf harness is
still there. I don't see why I can't just splice the pigtail
from the Golf into the Vanagon connector. If I'm careful I can have both
pigtails in place in my van so that if a replacement is needed again, I can
use either Vanagon or Golf without messing around with soldering again and
again. Simply put I will have a horse shoe shaped connector as stock in
Vanagon and square connector like the Golf. I use whatever future
replacement motors require. I'm thinking the only reason VW used the
horseshaped connector is to differentiate it from the powermirror harness.
It's a two wire deal.

Now it's time for my wrestling lesson.

Thanks guys.


BenT