So my wife's 01 LS sedan has a bad rear window motor. The window is stuck partially down...and its raining. Its going to rain for the next 4 days so I'd like to fix it.
I popped the door panel off and tried drilling out the 4 rivets that hold the motor in. I drilled through them, but there is a little left on each and they started to spin when I got the bigger drill bit in there. All they do is spin and I think I'm screwed.
Any tips on how I can get these buggers out?
Also, is there a way I could just move the window up and keep it there? The glad garbage bag looks a little too ghetto for me.
Thanks J-body peeps,
I use and air hammer, and a punch that attahces to it, to remove window motor rivets
- 2004 Cavalier - 124k, owned since new
I usually grind the heads off
Thanks guys. It started pouring last night while I was working on this and I got nowhere. I took it into the stealership and they are going to rape me for $375 but at least it will get done.
Thanks for the help. I hate GM power windows. EVERY car I've owned has either burned a motor out, or broken a regulator.
wow you really did get raped... you could have bought and installed a spal kit for much less than that. and had better motors.
all you needed to do was after they start spinning.. take a chissle (sp?) or a screwdriver of some sort and pop it out.... i did mine in about 2 or so hours.. no biggie....
Daryl Scott wrote:Thanks for the help. I hate GM power windows. EVERY car I've owned has either burned a motor out, or broken a regulator.
Amen - 'twas the case on my last two Century wagons. That's why I'm glad my sedan's got ye olde crank-em-yerself system.
Too busy driving to mod...
I used a drill, then once they spun came the Dremel with a cut-off disc in which I'd cut them in half, and pop them apart with a flathead. Worked wonders!
hell yeah, chisel the @!#$s off or grind them out! I grinded mine out, took me like an hour. Screw spending almost 400 at the dealership! They can eat my ass! You can get the new motor from autozone, oreilly's, advanced auto parts, pep boys, Big A, did I forget any?
Scott
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You've displayed wayyy too many acts of pushing people to their limits.
It's never cool to tear people down for what they want to do.
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SLO CAV (the autoxing one) wrote:Joe Schulte wrote:I used a drill, then once they spun came the Dremel with a cut-off disc in which I'd cut them in half, and pop them apart with a flathead. Worked wonders!
Yep that works too...
thats how i did mine
in retrospect a 1/2 drill bit will take the entire head right off .. saving you from having to hack the left over rivet.. did it this way when i did my 2nd door
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