[Shotimes] door lock motor

[George Fourchy]

On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 19:26:53 -0500, Hartberger, Jason M.  AT2 \(AW\) wrote:

> The door lock motor on my wife's 95ATX on the driver side
>refuses to work any more.

Hey Jason....

The actuator is mounted to the jam side of the door, below the latch.  It is in a
bracket that is held to the door with one rivet, visible about 6 inches below the
latch.  You have to get into the door to replace it...you are lucky it is a front
door...the rears require removal of all the latch linkage from the inner handle to
the latch.

Take the inner trim panel and weatherseal off the inside of the door.  In a gen 1
car, there are 5 screws holding it on, two under the grasp handle and two down just
above the tray, plus the one behind the mirror/sail panel.  I don't know about Gen 2
door trim panels...they are probably different.  

With the window up, remove the short runner that has two nuts holding it in
place...it guides the rear slider for the window.  The window will stay in place
with it out, but will not go up and down properly, so don't move the window with it
out.

Remove one bolt (same size as the nuts above) that holds the lower rear window
channel in the bottom of the door.  Now you can get to the lock actuator.  Chisel or
drill off the rivet, and fold the actuator and bracket up so you can get to it...it
will pivot on the attachment point to the lock button linkage.  Unplug it, and take
it out.  

Put the new (from PnP...[10 bucks there, 90 bucks at the dealer]...take a battery
powered drill to take the door there apart...you can test the actuator (and learn
how to get to it), and not have to pay the return fee) actuator in place, the same
way the old one came out.  I use a nut, lock washer and bolt to replace the rivet
(you have to remove and replace the bracket to get the bolt installed)....you will
have to replace that actuator again later on, so might as well make it easy for
yourself.   

Put everything back.  The hardest part for a new guy inside the door is the lower
window channel.  It snaps into place into a spot where the upper rubber window run
stops.  If it isn't right, the window will bind.  When you get it in place, don't
fully tighten the bolt that holds it until you run the window up and down a couple
of times....make sure it is in the right place.

Questions??.....you know what to do!!

;-)

George