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.

----- Original Message -----
From: "BenT Syncro" <syncro@GMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 5:58 PM
Subject: How does powerwindow motor come out of the door?

> Hi Gang,
>
> During the last heavy rainstorm, something went kaput in my powerwindow
> motor on the driver's side. I traced the problem to the motor itself. No
> movement when I apply power. I found a replacement motor out of Golf which
> looks like it would fit. So now I unbolt the old motor assembly in the
> door
> and now have the motor hanging loose. I tried to twist it out but could to
> get it to turn enough to come out of the small opening. Now it's very
> close
> if I could only get another inch or two of horizontal movement. Before I
> twist too far and possibly break something, I though of asking y'all.
> Someone here must have done this before. I tried to do an archive search
> but could not locate something specific to the motor removal. Hurry my
> time
> is cheap right now. If I take too long, I'll get into my non-free time.
>
>
> TIA,
> --
> BenT
>
>
> ps: can you believe "y'all" passes by the Google spellchecker?
>