Hi John, hi all the others :-)

On Sat, 1998-06-27 19:28:33 -0500, John Koloen wrote:

> My passenger side power window suddenly stopped working. I get a clicking
> sound from the motor when I press either the passenger or driver side
> switch. Has anyone else had this problem?

At least I had a similar problem (the power window  didn't work, but the
motor made   a clicking  noise.  In  my  case it  was  the driver  side,
though).  I  managed  to  solve it.    I can't   give you  the  detailed
instructions of how to remove motor and  mechanics out of the  passenger
door, for that, see Bentley or  some similar publication.  However, here
is  the critical point: you're  instructed to roll   down the window for
about one centimeter or so in order to

1. get two   screws in alignment  with  two corresponding wholes in  the
door, and

2. put the whole mechanics into a state where it's removable.

In case  you fail to  accomplish this (and you  _do_  fail to accomplish
this, because your motor is striking) you're instructed to cut the steel
cable (which would ruin the whole assembly).

Now,  #1 is no problem  at  all, you  can  rather easily undo the screws
without aligning  them with those  holes.  #2 indeed is   some sort of a
challenge.  But  gently trying to and  fro,  despite of  the instruction
manual, I   finally managed  to remove the   whole  assembly without any
damage.  The   top end, where  the  glass is attached    has to be moved
backwards, the motor  unit has to be moved  forward and out  of the door
... I never clearly found out what I did wrong (according to the manual,
that is  :-),  but after several  tries the  bastard suddenly was savely
out.

Maybe, it would suffice to  only get the  motor and the gearbox attached
to  it out of the door a bit, and leave the  rest  more or less in place
... but somehow it's a more easy job when the whole assembly lies neatly
on the work bench.

Anyway: it's save to open the gearbox (at least if your's is the same as
mine, straight forward  job, five, six   or seven screws,  no parts will
jump at you like a jack-in-the-box), but at least in my case the problem
wasn't in the gearbox.  I removed the four screws attaching the motor to
the  gearbox and  then  removed the motor.   The  motor axle sits rather
tightly in an elastic plastic cylinder which transfers the torque of the
motor axle  to   the spindle  in the  gearbox,  but  you can  cautiously
persuade the motor axle to let go ...  :-).  It then  turned out that in
my motor the axle simply  had locked.  I applied  MoS2 spray to the axle
and its bearing, and after a while of cauiously twisting and turning the
axle, the motor gave in and started to behave  normally.  I then applied
12V to it, and lo and behold!  it worked again.  It does still.

And of  course: before putting  everything back into  place I generously
rolled down the window for about one centimeter to align the screws with
the wholes and thus to prevent me from having to cut theese steel cables
... :-)

Hope this helps.

Sincerely
 Rainer

PS: I'm new to this list, living in Germany, and driving a 89 16" Syncro
with a  2.1l gasoline engine with cat.   Are there any other  Germans on
this list?

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