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04-19-2020, 08:15 PM
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Power Window Switch
My 69 GTO has power windows. I have a love/hate relationship with them, with wishing they were of the Armstrong roll up variety winning out more often than not.
But..... Is it possible to repair a power window switch? They appear to be crimped together, I’m wondering if there is anything in there that can be adjusted or tightened or cleaned or whatever if I went through the trouble to take it apart? The passenger side switch will get the window down but not up. The driver switch gets the 3 other windows but doesn’t work the passenger window. I’ve tried aftermarket replacements without much luck.
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 frittering and wasting the hours in an off hand way.... 1969 GTO, 455ci, 230/236 Pontiac Dude's "Butcher Special" Comp hyd roller cam with Crower HIPPO solid roller lifters, Q-jet, Edelbrock P4B-QJ, Doug's headers, ported 6X-8 (97cc) heads, TKO600, 3.73 geared Eaton Tru-Trac 8.5", hydroboost, rear disc brakes......and my greatest mechanical feat....a new heater core. 
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04-19-2020, 08:26 PM
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can you jump the plug on the backs of the switch with the switch off and make em work ?
and yes only flatten out 2 of the tabs enuf to slide the 1 switch style apart.... are the intermittant also??? I find 1/2 the time its a broken wire in the door jamb.... |
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04-20-2020, 07:08 AM
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On the driver side, I’ve done nothing, just confirmed lack of passenger side operation with the 4 way driver switch. On the passenger side, I’ve run power around the switch and the motor runs the window up and down. Possibly I should run power directly to the switch and check it’s operation that way before I take the switch apart or is the fact that it lowers the window good enough to confirm power is there and the switch needs attention?
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frittering and wasting the hours in an off hand way.... 1969 GTO, 455ci, 230/236 Pontiac Dude's "Butcher Special" Comp hyd roller cam with Crower HIPPO solid roller lifters, Q-jet, Edelbrock P4B-QJ, Doug's headers, ported 6X-8 (97cc) heads, TKO600, 3.73 geared Eaton Tru-Trac 8.5", hydroboost, rear disc brakes......and my greatest mechanical feat....a new heater core.
Last edited by David Jones; 04-20-2020 at 07:18 AM. |
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04-20-2020, 12:31 PM
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After staring at one of the OEM passenger switches on the workbench, I decided I’d take it apart. Why not. I folded two of the ears up and pulled the “motherboard” out. A pair of multi part thin brass/copper (?) contacts mounted on a piece of resin, activated by a plastic rocker. There are 2 contact areas per side (stacked up), similar to sanding a set of points, I turned some fairly cankered contact areas nice and shiny clean with some 1000 grit.
We’ll see soon if it’s really that simple.
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frittering and wasting the hours in an off hand way.... 1969 GTO, 455ci, 230/236 Pontiac Dude's "Butcher Special" Comp hyd roller cam with Crower HIPPO solid roller lifters, Q-jet, Edelbrock P4B-QJ, Doug's headers, ported 6X-8 (97cc) heads, TKO600, 3.73 geared Eaton Tru-Trac 8.5", hydroboost, rear disc brakes......and my greatest mechanical feat....a new heater core.
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04-21-2020, 04:26 PM
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In my case, taking the switch apart, cleaning it and reinstalling was the cure.
Driver switch is about to come out now.
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frittering and wasting the hours in an off hand way.... 1969 GTO, 455ci, 230/236 Pontiac Dude's "Butcher Special" Comp hyd roller cam with Crower HIPPO solid roller lifters, Q-jet, Edelbrock P4B-QJ, Doug's headers, ported 6X-8 (97cc) heads, TKO600, 3.73 geared Eaton Tru-Trac 8.5", hydroboost, rear disc brakes......and my greatest mechanical feat....a new heater core.
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04-21-2020, 04:38 PM
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sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeet
be nice pulling the switches out of the retainer ring thats bent over the door panel also........... |
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#7
04-21-2020, 04:51 PM
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Driver switches now work.
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frittering and wasting the hours in an off hand way.... 1969 GTO, 455ci, 230/236 Pontiac Dude's "Butcher Special" Comp hyd roller cam with Crower HIPPO solid roller lifters, Q-jet, Edelbrock P4B-QJ, Doug's headers, ported 6X-8 (97cc) heads, TKO600, 3.73 geared Eaton Tru-Trac 8.5", hydroboost, rear disc brakes......and my greatest mechanical feat....a new heater core.
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04-21-2020, 04:53 PM
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better pull em and sell em while they are still working ?? !!
nice job ... 2 more to go ..... |
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#9
04-21-2020, 06:04 PM
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Nah, the back windows worked 15 years ago. Why tempt fate by trying them......
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frittering and wasting the hours in an off hand way.... 1969 GTO, 455ci, 230/236 Pontiac Dude's "Butcher Special" Comp hyd roller cam with Crower HIPPO solid roller lifters, Q-jet, Edelbrock P4B-QJ, Doug's headers, ported 6X-8 (97cc) heads, TKO600, 3.73 geared Eaton Tru-Trac 8.5", hydroboost, rear disc brakes......and my greatest mechanical feat....a new heater core.
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