The other important thing to check is your window seals. If they are bad rain water can drip down into the door cavity and messup power window and lock components.

--- On Mon, 7/14/08, Todd P Last <Rubatoguy@COMCAST.NET> wrote:

> From: Todd P Last <Rubatoguy@COMCAST.NET>
> Subject: Trouble with power window motors rusting?
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Date: Monday, July 14, 2008, 5:53 AM
> I recently troubleshot my driver's power window problem
> which turned out
> to be that the motor was bad.
> Well, the motor shaft was rusted as it comes out of the
> body of the motor.
>
> Has anyone experienced this? Can you take the motor apart
> to fix it?
> I'm guessing that it is important to have the shaft
> lubricated with
> grease so that the shaft does not pick up moisture and
> rust.
>
> Todd
> '88 Vanagon