Window Regulator home remedy?

[Morpheus]

Well, my rear window regulator broke yesterday. not the whole thing just the little square plastic washet that fits into the window channel and slides when to window opens and closes, it there any home remedies to replace this washer or do i need to replace the whole regulator?

 

[DiscoDino]

Had the same thing happen to BOTH my Discos and I just went to a machine shop and got them to do 6 for me in aluminum...lotsa grease and they have been in for 4 years in one and 1 year in the other...

suggest you do the same...

 

[Morpheus]

Had the same thing happen to BOTH my Discos and I just went to a machine shop and got them to do 6 for me in aluminum...lotsa grease and they have been in for 4 years in one and 1 year in the other...

suggest you do the same...

they made the washers out of aluminum???? that sounds like a plan!!!

 

[DiscoDino]

If you're talking about those small quater-like thickish white plastic rollers that go in the channel, then yes.

 

[Morpheus]

thats exactly what mean...they fabricated them right onto the regulator? or did you have to put them on the shaft?

 

[DiscoDino]

Just parked the truck in the morning, came back at lunch, saw everything in pieces, saw the prototype, picked her up at dinner and it was working...the second was the same, but they had already done 6 (so now I have 2 spare)

 

[knebusch]

I posted something in the tech section a long time ago that might help.

Ken

 

[Moose]

Home Depot also sells metal (steel) washers that are almost exactly the same size.


You could do what I did when my passenger window did this ~18 months after the driver's door, and buy a whole "new" door off a parted-out truck!

 

[Ron]

I used a toilet part once and later a wiper bushing from the HELP! section of the auto parts store.

Both to my knowledge are still working 4 years later . . .

 

[D Chapman]

Ya'll are getting too deep into it. I used a regular washer, and a sawed off bolt. I drilled the hole where the plastic washer was to bit the bolt. i fit the bolt into the hole and put the washer on. I then wacked the bolt with a hammer to "mushroom" the tip out so the washer would not come off. Took 30 minutes and did not cost a thing.

If you have a welder, a tack weld would work better then the "mushrooming" deal.

It's been holding up on two doors for over a year.