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noisy window
Any results yet on the "awful tearing noise when the window operates, like a cable unraveling"?
Just replaced my passenger window regulator with a good used one. The old one made squeaky balloon/grinding/crunching noises for a little while, while working fine. I didn't stop using it right then because I thought the noise was the interior rubber gutter rubbing against the sticky back residue from the window tint I had just pulled off. After about 15 ups and downs, the window stopped operating. Ordered a good used regulator from Woody, put it in, and it went up and down once smoothly, but then the next time it did the same grinding/cable chewing noise that preceded the death of the original regulator. I took it out and saw that the cable had come off one of the white pulley wheels. So, it turns out that the crunching noise was the cable running behind and not on the pulley. Do it enough, and the cable ends up shredded, as I saw in the original regulator. Don’t know how it happened that the cable in the replacement regulator came off the pulley- possibly because I adjusted the window clamp screw to replicate the position on the original regulator, but without allowing for tension or slack to be taken up elsewhere in the system.
There was enough tension on the cable that I could not get it back on the pulley except by separating the motor and the spool. When I did that, the spring tension of the cable around the spool made it pop off the spool and I had to re-thread the cable on the spool- kind of a three handed job. But I got it back together, put it back in, and it has worked great for a coupla weeks so far, no issues.
In hindsight, it could be that if I had stopped using the window the first time I heard the grinding, I could have gone in there and found that the cable was off the pulley- and i might have seen it before it started shredding itself. Could be I might have salvaged the whole thing.
With the new/used cable in the passenger door, the window does the proper 1/2" drop whenever the door handle is used. Driver's door window stopped doing the full 1/2" a while ago so soon I will insert the bike brake cable barrel adjustment to restore that.
Let us know what goes on with the noisy window.
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