[Zmagnette] Window stuck

[charles durning]

Steve,

I'll have to take a look at one of my regulators when I get home.  If the
sheet metal parts are held together with rivets you may be able to drill
them out to get it apart.  If spot welds you may be able to drill out the
spot welds.

If there is room you may be able to put it back together steel pop rivets
or some screws and lock nuts.

Sounds like the pinion could be attached to the shaft with a roll pin.  If
that's the case another roll pin just could be the answer.

Charlie Durning

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On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Steven Trovato <strovato at optonline.net>wrote:

> 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.
>
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