I took the regulator out of the passenger rear door yesterday, and it was pretty tweaked. I've seen pics of them bent, but this looks twisted.
So I spent about 2 hours trying to straighten it out, but I may have straightened it too much, or maybe not enough, I don't have a good one to go by. The window lift arm ( the thing with all the teeth on it ) moves freely, the motor slips right into two of the mounting posts, and halfway into the other and seats in all three when tightened.
I had to push the window lift arm in about an inch to bolt it to the rail on the bottom of the window. There wasn't a whole lot of stress involved, I didn't have to push it really hard to get the bolts in. It used to stick when it was raised and lowered, now it just goes really slow and the motor sounds loud compared to the others. I'll be just leaving it up till I pull it again, since I want to take the motor apart and clean and lube it.
I did notice that the mounts where it attaches to the door are not perpendicular to the regulator itself anymore, but I couldn't find a way to grip it in a vice to with the lift arm attached to it, does this come off? I tried to get it off, but it won't just pop off, and I didn't want to get to violent with it, the base being pot metal and all.
Anyone have pic's of a proper window regulator?
Also, is there supposed to be a gap in the rail on the bottom of the window? Am I missing something, partwise? There was quite a bit of rust crumbs in the bottom of the door, but aside from a bit of rust right in the bottom seam of the door, it's very clean in there. So unless whatever is missing rusted into crumbs and was sitting in the bottom of the door, I can't imagine where all that rust came from.