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Originally Posted by Gilly
Seems to me you can't take the motor off with the regulator installed. Make sure you get the big kahuna rivets that hold the regulator to the door. Although you need this big kahuna rivet "gun" to install these rivets, which probably will involve a favor from a body shop to get done, so I might suggest replacing the rivits with nuts/bolts/lockwashers.
I would disagree on the 50-50 failure rate of motors to regulators. Usually it the regulator that breaks, where the pivot is that joins the regulator to the window, probably about 75% of the time, this is the failure. The window will stop going all the way to the top first (that's when it first breaks), then it stops all together.
Gilly
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I had an old Craftsman rivet gun that had interchangeable tips and one was big enough to handle the kahuna rivets. However I got Carpel Tunnel syndrome after doing 1 or 2 (at least it felt like it...) I think bolts would work as well but I would use loctite or nylocs probably.
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1998 C230 330,000 miles (currently dead of second failed EIS, yours will fail too, turning you into the dealer's personal human cash machine)
1988 F150 144,000 miles (leaks all the colors of the rainbow)
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