Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2003 10:02:44 +0100 From: Grunff <grunffnopsam.com> Subject: Re: Well - I blew it
Dexter J wrote: > Salutations: > > OK - here's what I've done.. > > My passenger window ('89 9000T CD) was grinding and got stuck fully open > even though I had warned everyone that it shouldn't be opened until I could > spend some time and perhaps money taking it apart and fixing it.. > > I got the panel open and found, as I suspected, that the upper wire had > slipped off the plastic disk and was working on the pulley shaft behind the > disk instead.. > > When I got the crochet needle in there and pulled the cable trying to get > it to slide back onto the disk - I overshot and the cable dropped off the > front of the pulley disk.. > > In my panic - I started pulling the cable off it's lower disk trying to get > some slack to put it back on the top and got the cable itself free from the > plastic stay on the window brace.. However, I then tried to get some slack > by turning the main window motor on and off - it consumed all the available > cable so that now - I have nice extremely short loop of cable with no slack > even though it's not attached to anything on the window and have rigged the > window shut with a tie wrap under the brace.. Which is good - as the > 'rainy' season is upon us here in Nova Scotia.. God help me if I hit a > serious enough bump though.. > > I have really messed up here and was wondering if anyone had any details on > how to get the cable to slack off enough to get it back around pulleys then > tighten it up enough to keep it there.. > > I assume I'm taking the whole assembly (save the actual glass and > associated lower clip) out - but surely there is some way to get the window > motor to play out enough cable so I can rethread it?.. > > Please advise.. I'm tapped as usual - so long and often overlooked details > would be helpful.. Oh dear - your story is ver familiar - I was in exactly that situation a few years ago. FWIW, this is what I did. I removed the whole assembly, as you are suggesting. I just couldn't figure out how to get enough cable play to get it back to how it was. So I foolishly opened up the cable 'drum'. I found that the cable had been chewed in one place. So I got on the phone. Apparently the cable is an off-the-shelf item, priced at £40. Before I went ahead and ordered one, I popped down to my local scrappy, to see if they had anything useful. Found a 1990 9k, and they only wanted £30 for the *whole* mechanism. So I removed it, took it home, installed it, and never looked back. The only advice I can offer is to try and get a replacement mechanism. Once you have that, you're only 10 minutes away from a working window. Good luck. -- Grunff
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