[Zmagnette] Window stuck

[Steven Trovato]

OK, here's the update.  The door panel came off without much 
trouble.  The window itself was fine, but the regulator was frozen 
solid.  I removed the regulator from the car.  The regulator looks 
very good, no rust, just some very old grease.  The mechanism 
consists of the crank, a shaft, a small pinion gear and a large 
sector gear.  With enough fiddling, I was able to get the mechanism 
moving, but it intermittently binds at various points.  I have a lot 
of play between the shaft and pinion gear.  I can move the window 
crank 40 degrees back and forth without the sector gear moving.  The 
other window regulators in the car have some play, but not this 
much.  This play seems to be coming from the attachment of the shaft 
to the pinion gear.  When the mechanism binds, the shaft is tight, 
but I can make the pinion move back and forth easily by pushing the 
arm.  This is odd, because when this was all  in the car, the crank 
moved easily 40 degrees and something past there was frozen.  So I 
guess I need to figure out why the shaft is binding, and how the 
pinion is attached to the shaft.  The biggest question is whether or 
not any of this can be accessed for service.  It doesn't look like 
it, at least not easily.  Comments welcome!

-Steve T.