Well, I got the passenger's side window and motor installed and working yesterday. Then my hoseclamps locating the motor on the track slid out of place while the window was down. So now the window is stuck. That was at 8:30 pm and I hadn't had dinner so I called it a night. I'm going to look at it some more tonight and at least get everything out of there and my window rolled/propped up.
Fitment is quite tricky especially if you leave the wing window separator in place. The motor causes the regulator to stick out from the inside of the door more than stock and is hard to get into place so I'm thinking I'll put it in a different place. All that would be required is to notch a rectangle out of the regulator channel. This time I'll weld tabs on the channel or something a bit more secure than the hoseclamps. Sorry, no pictures yet but I'll get the passenger's side operational and do the writeup and pictoral documentation on the driver's side.
It was quite exciting yesterday once I got everything bolted up and in place to see the window roll up and down with little effort from the motor. It's a bit loud but I think thats from the regulator resting against the door metal and not having the panel on there. It's pretty fast too, about 2 or 3 seconds to roll fully up or down.
After taking my really old cheap panels off and on several times for power locks and windows, they're pretty torn up. Plus, there's now that hole where the crank went. Looks like new panels are in order sometime soon.
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Jonathan Pribble
1967 Beetle - Wolfgang
1970 Beetle - Der Haufen
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