Slick 60's

Would you care to detail your power window conversion for the rest of us - your solution looks much better than the$350 a pair at the retailers and certainly a lot better than those universal lift deals.
They look perfect for me for sure
thanx in advance for your time
Ken

Hopefully I will get home at a decent time on Tuesday and I will get you the info on my power windows. They are salvage yard parts.
Kevin

Yeah nice job Kev,make sure you tell them to be carefull when unloading the spring!,I nearly lost my courting finger .

Alan,

The power window motors came out of a 2000 Saturn four door. You can get the front door regulators cheap if you find ones that the regulator mechanism is damaged. All you want off of it is the motor itself. The salvage yard that I went to gave them to me because they were worthless to them. The teeth on the motors meshes perfectly with the teeth on your stock regulator. Take the stock handle out(careful of the spring).
I had to weld a bracket on up top for the third mounting hole. I also had to notch the stock regulator behind one monting tab to allow for clearance of the motor.
Tilt the motor towards the front of the truck or it will hit the window channel. It will all make sense once you get your regulator out and have the motor sitting next to it.

Mine are very smooth running and they were cheap to make.
Kevin

that's pretty cool.

Saturn = GM usually

Does that mean any GM power window motor should work? Wouldnt think that the tooth pitch would be any different from model to model?
Or did you have to go thru a few motors to find one that worked?

Thoughts?

Kevin do you have any close up pictures of the bracket you made? I have the motors just haven't had the time to work on this. thanks

I am not sure if any GM window motor will work. I went to the salvage yard with my regulator and was looking at any and all motors. My criteria was the thin flat motor and the teeth to mesh up, didn't care what they came out of. A lot of GM windows are tape drive and won't work. Then I found the Saturn front doors and they were perfect. The Saturn rear doors are tape drive. Some of the newer Ford motors were thin but the teeth didn't mesh up right.
The bracket that I put on my regulator is just a triangle piece on top to mount the third hole in the motor. You can see the bracket on the right motor at the top on the right. The opposite side has to be notch out behind the original mount to allow for clearance on the motor.
I hope that helps
Kevin

I'm digging up an old post here, sorry.

Has anyone completed the power window upgrade with the saturn or any other salvage yard parts? If so, have any photos to share? I also wonder what was used for the window buttons.

Thanks.

hey for those of you guys that can't see it that well. open up a new file on your desktop and save the pics of the regulators to to that file on your desktop. then open it up FROM your desktop to full screen. you will have a menu of items to choose from at the bottom. you can enlarge it from there and see the notched out side really well and triangle welded to it for the third mount of the motor.

it's a good thing there are some out there keeping up with the times on technology. that pic blows up nice and is still visible. [/i]

hey for those of you guys that can't see it that well. open up a new file on your desktop and save the pic of the regulators to to that file on your desktop. then open it up FROM your desktop to full screen. you will have a menu of items to choose from at the bottom. you can enlarge it from there and see the notched out side really well and triangle welded to it for the third mount of the motor.

it's a good thing there are some out there keeping up with the times on technology. that pic blows up nice and is still visible.

Excellent work kstone! HUM, I wonder how may of those Saturns are out there in the 'yank a crank yards'?

Sounds like a nice upgrade... Tim, wanna go to a pull a part one of these weekends? Heh

might go sunday afternoon after I play with splicing in an inline fuel filter. Give me a call if you want to go.

I am guessing this sunday? I have a big paintball game at my house tomarrow at about 1:00. If next sunday then I am up for it for sure.

Tim, did you ever make it to the pull a part Sunday? If so then any luck finding these motors? I am considering it once I see that more people are doing it and if it works then I will get some and buy some switches from Speedway Motors.

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I didn't make it up there to look yet. The place I go to marks the vehicle manf, model, and year on the car - not always correct on the year but with in a year or two usually. I'm sure they go by what's on the title or whatever the seller tells them, both of which can be wrong.

i went to the pull a part yard the other day. it looks like saturn didn't change much on their windows for like the last 15 years from what i had seen. you just need some metric hex headed bitsor allen keys, a hammer, a small chisel or punch, and some wire cutters at the minimum. the outer door shell comes off the frame. the two door cars look to be the same also. take one of your 12 or 18 volt drill battery packs with you to make sure it works. dont get your fingers in the way! some 70 era cars out there have some great swtiches that are chrome with bezels for surface mounting. i also think the help section of parts stores sell these indivdiually but are like ten bucks a pop.

the power door locks look really easy to convert on these also. go buy a 50 dollar box for keyless with the relay plus a bottle of tylenol for a headache and your set.

Could you post a picture of the reverse side of the regulators? I'm curious about the brackets and the required clearance. Did you have to alter the regulator mounting depth to fit the motor inside the door? it looks like the motor is taking the place of the window crank handle, which is inside the truck... I may just need to pull mine out and look a little more closely...