Well, I ventured to remove the cover on the gearbox and found the
cable had gotten sucked into the worm gear.  Worked to delicately
extricate the cable, then used a small bolt and extra-thin nut to
re-attach the plastic lower guide back onto the slide rail.  Works
good, but that cable got a bit tweaked so it's noisy as it slides
through the housing.  Don't know how long it'll last.  Thanks, that
saved me some big bucks for now.

On 5/21/05, Stacy <vwcrewman@comcast.net> wrote:
> They are easy to fix,take it out through the speaker hole and bolt it back
> together.After you do that onr take the opposite one of and fix it as well.

Casey
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