Rear window, not front. Rears are different. -D
Sent from my iPad > 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 > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com