Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 19:09:26 -0800
Reply-To: Roger Whittaker <rogerwhitt1@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Roger Whittaker <rogerwhitt1@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: WTB power window motor driver's side
In-Reply-To: <4d1b79350911021615wddcdbc6ted1d8d6442dc7b9c@mail.gmail.com>
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dear power windows
i do not know if this applies .. indeed i may be way off base with this ...
i used to have a ford product with power windows ... one day they stopped
working
i could hear the motor turning and some sort of gears grumbling ... but no
up or down
so i pulled the morot to have a look ...
a knuckle buster extraordinaire ...and i have to drill holes to gain access
to some nuts
so i get the whole thing apart and open up the grears area around the stem
that drives the window up down
inside is absolute mush with the grease ... little bits of some sort of
plastic ...
so i yank off one of the other that is working and there are these ball
shaped bits ...
these shapes run around the off centre tri-angle shaped driver ....
so when it works the tri-angle driver turns the balls and they transfer the
energy to an outside gear that cranks the window
i believe this set up is called a planetary gear ...
so i need new planets as it were to get it working again...
where i am working the guy collects old cutting boards that he buys at
garage sales ...
these are valuable bits of corion or teflon ..etc
so i cut myself out new pieces and use the grinding wheel and sand belt to
refine into shape
placed into the lace where the old ones were ... fresh wheel bearing grease
...
and zoom zoom .. up and down went the window
me happy then ...
so i am unsure if this fix applies to the vangon power window ...
but from what i can see of the pictures ... it appears to be of similar
engineering
yours
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Jim Felder <jim.felder@gmail.com> wrote:
> A comment and a question:
>
> Regarding the replacement, yes it is a horrible knuckle-skinner the
> first time through when you're guessing. But own vanagons with power
> windows as long as I did (mine are manual at present) and you'll get
> the whole job down to 20 minutes or so. I have a detailed writeup in
> the archives.
>
> Is that true that the motors or shared among several VW models? I had
> heard they are not. But that is good news if you can find some late
> models motors because the worst part of the whole job definitely takes
> place when you buy the motor.
>
> I have a couple of bad ones that didn't stay in all that long. Has
> anybody done a writeup on refurbing them?
>
> Jim
>
> On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Mike <mbucchino@charter.net> wrote:
> > The motor itself is replaceable separately (not too easy!), and, IIRC,
> is the same as any other power window motor on late VW's, Audi's, etc.
> > Should be cheap and plentiful at 'Pick-N-Pull'-type yards.
> >
> > Mike B.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Gilles H Turmel
> > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> > Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 5:13 PM
> > Subject: WTB power window motor driver's side
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> > I have an 89 Westy Syncro and have to replace the power window motor on
> the driver's side. Is there one out there? The VW part no is 251 959 801.
> > Best regards.
> >
>
--
roger w
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