Rear window, not front. Rears are different.

-D

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> On Mar 27, 2017, at 8:56 PM, Curley McLain via Mercedes 
> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> 
> Late front ones are stamped steel, and the teeth wear/break off.  
> Car-part.com for a good used regulator and motor.
> 
> I put cast gear regulator in the driver door of one SDL.  It was from a gen I 
> 126.  You have to swap the motor and regulator together.  different sprockets 
> on the motor.
> 
> My guess is you have a stamped one, and it has the teeth gone.
> 
> I've only had slide/rivet problems on the rear.
> 
> with the door open, try pushing down the glass while your assistant switches 
> the window down (or up, in  case some monkey reversed the wires.)  If the 
> window works except clear up, then it is the gear rack.
> 
>> Dan Penoff via Mercedes <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com>
>> March 27, 2017 at 7:26 PM
>> Looking into the last of the issues on the 300SEL, I knew the PO said one of 
>> the back windows didn’t work, but that was a minor thing I haven’t paid any 
>> attention to.
>> 
>> I checked it out tonight and found the left rear window doesn’t work. I can 
>> hear the motor in both directions, but no movement of the glass. I looked a 
>> the regulators on some of the parts sites and the rear window regulators 
>> look very different than the ones I’ve been used to seeing. Is there 
>> something about these that is prone to failure, or that I should expect to 
>> find when I crack open the door panel? Sliding jaw issues? Mechanical 
>> problems?
>> 
>> They look a lot simpler than the regulators on the front doors.
>> 
>> -D
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