Re: IML: 57 Power Windows

["Hugh & Therese" <hugtrees@xxxxxxxx>]

Tim,

It is far less of a chore than you'd imagine.  The retention clips are 
pretty simple.  A large flat bladed screw driver will be fine to gently pry 
the panel away.  Be careful not to lose the clips themselves.  Also, some of 
these may be very fragile and may break.  Their spring element may be long 
gone.  I cannot advise you where more such springs can be found, I'm afraid. 
The door handles must be removed first, by the way.  This is a small matter 
of gently pulling them out of their positions.

The motors themselves are sturdy and well worth rebuilding.  Anything you 
get from a scrap yard will be likely to be in the same condition anyway.  Be 
careful not to lose the special connecting piece between the window motor 
and the winding mechanism itself.  You can also check the window mechanism 
itself but turning the mechanism by hand.  This is a very, very, very, slow 
process.

For what it's worth, I was told the motors on my 58 were beyond all hope. 
The drainage slits on the bottom of the doors had become silted up and in 
one case the door retained at least a gallon of water!  The window motor, of 
course, had sat in this puddle for a while.  On the basis that I could not 
make them any worse than the "ruined" condition they were in, I took the 
first Least bad one apart, cleaned everything up with barely a clue what I 
was doing.  Dislodging the mechanism in the center was not easy because 
everything was so rusted.  Of course I didn't force it, I just used a bigger 
hammer!  Anyway, for grins, I cleaned everything up, reassembled it and put 
power to it.  To my own surprise and the downright astonishment of the 
naysayers, it worked!  I fixed another two. The fourth one still worked.  I 
found one at a junk yard later and have yet had to use it.

These motors come up on e-bay quite frequently, too.  I think they are a 
standard Chrysler item.  The key thing here is to retain the unique part 
that connects the motor to winding mechanism.

Hugh
58 Imperial

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <tcrowley2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 6:50 AM
Subject: IML: 57 Power Windows


> Next week I'll be taking my 57 Imperial Crown in for work on her two front 
> power windows which don't work.  I'll probably be spending the day with my 
> mechanic as he problem-solves this one.  I'm sort of paranoid about 
> getting into the business of taking the inside panels off, etc., and am 
> wondering what suggestion people might have about problem solving this 
> before we start dissasembling the inside panels.  Please help.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Tim Crowley
> 1957 Imperial Crown
> Vermont
>
>
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