One other common problem with the windows is that the nylon rollers
may also be stuck, or have been stuck for some time & have developed a flat
spot . This would require that they be replaced or the window will still bind,
no matter how clean the track are.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 11:21
PM
Subject: Re: IML: 57-63 Window
Motors
Rebuilding the forward look window motors is
difficult to impossible, and about 10 electrical motor rebuilders that I
contacted declined to even try. I have gotten into this several times
before, and they are generally not rebuildable due to rust.
Their position in the door subjects them to water coming down from
the glass on its way to the bottom of the door. They tend to rot and
rust internally. I think that those are fitted with thrust bearings, and
not ball bearings, and the races just go to pot. The motors are riveted
together on the earlier ones, and putting them back together is a chancy
proposition.
Should you meet with success, I'd suggest slathering petroleum jelly all
over the top surface where the dust boot is to try to keep water out.
Maybe make a larger dust-boot?
The other component that's at work here is resistance in the window track
mechanism, and this goes for the later 64 and later cars. The grease
that they used back then is now congealed and hardened. It creates so
much resistance that it can burn out an otherwise good motor when you use it
if it's not been used much and is gummed up.
A nice, clean power window mechanism for the 57-63 models should go up
and down so fast that you start to fearfully wonder what it would feel like to
leave a finger in the wrong place. It's not unlike a guillotine and is
really rapid - like no other power window I've ever seen.
In general, most cars that I've seen have 4 different windows operating
at 4 different speeds due to such varied conditions. Steam-cleaning or
pressure washing the tracks seems to be the way to go. Taking them out
of the door is difficult, and reinstallation of mine is something that I'm not
looking forward to, so if you look at yours and can think up a way to strip
the grease (looks like petrified chicken fat) off without removal that doesn't
leave residual solvent in the tracks to break down the replacement grease that
you put in, I'd like to hear about it.
There was once a rumor that Summit Racing or some other high performance
vendor was selling electric water pumps that used an electrical motor with the
identical dimensions and the same output shaft, but I couldn't find it after a
casual search. That thing "should" be less than the $100 that some
folks are charging for a good replacement motor.
If you really need one of these, I may have access to some. They
won't be inexpensive. There are 2 kinds - one that has
no black covering and is metal, and one that has black rubberized covering
with an exposed band of metal in the middle to allow the clamp to ground the
motor. They are two different lengths, and if memory serves, one has
rivets and one has threaded rods holding them together.
-Kenyon
Chad Smith <hemi_powered@xxxxxxx>
wrote:
Paul and list:
No, have a 1959 Imp, and three windows work most of the time, and a
four doesn't work at all. The ones that do work work intermittently,
or are extremely slow....sometimes sticking. Ideas
appreciated. I haven't rebuilt these before, but I do have the
MTS for this issue.
Thanks.
Teresa
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 4:25
PM
Subject: Re: IML: Window Motors
I can tell you that they won't work in '59. Do you have a
'64?
Paul
In an email dated Mon, 15 11 2004 10:06:31 pm GMT,
"Chad Smith" <hemi_powered@xxxxxxx>
writes:
>Darn, wish I would have held onto that '91 Dynasty now!
Ok, so which year Imps does this work with?
>
>Teresa
Smith
>1959 Custom South Hampton
> ----- Original Message
-----
> From: Hailey (Morgan) Moore<mailto:materialgurl@xxxxxxxxx>
>
To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 3:07 PM
> Subject: Re: IML: Window
Motors
>
>
> Hello Brandt
>
> The best
source for a window motor is out of a dodge dynasty, or
> plymouth
acclaim. I have found out that they are an identicle motor.
> Some
of them even have the same plug. My dad has a friend who owns a
>
salvage yard. We figured this out when one of the window motors
died
> in a 64 Imperial. It is the same motor as a bunch of other
60s mopars
> with power windows too. You can probably get a cheap
one from the
> local dealer if you order one for say an 89 Dodge
Dynasty. Just make
> sure it is not the dynasty with the cable
driven power windows.
>
> Let me know if you need any more
window motor info, I have a lot of
> experience with
them.
>
> -Hailey
>
>
> On Fri, 12 Nov 2004
08:28:20 -0800, Brandt Daniels <bdaniels@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:bdaniels@xxxxxxxxx>>
wrote:
> > Hey Crew...so after the couple weeks of heavy rains in
so cal, the driver side window wouldnt roll up and down any more. I did
the usual troubleshooting and discovered that the motor casing was full of
rusty water...so ive cleaned all these motors a couple of times now but
never anything this bad...im assuming the motor is shot? whats the
cheapest fix here?
> >
> > Brandt
> > 1963 Le
Baron
> > Lake Forest, CA
> >
> >
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