window regulator

[my85mustanggt]

how do i remove a window regulator on a power window and install a manuel one

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Subscribing. I'm thinking about doing this project as well on my passenger door.

[KCoker]

Take a punch and punch the middle of the rivet out. Take a 1/4 drill bit and drill out the rivet. You will need new rivets and a big rivett gun to re instal the new regulator. You can use 1/4 bolts if you want but I dont like to use them.

[bigjason_5]

Take a punch and punch the middle of the rivet out. Take a 1/4 drill bit and drill out the rivet. You will need new rivets and a big rivett gun to re instal the new regulator. You can use 1/4 bolts if you want but I dont like to use them.

+1. Don't use bolts unless you use plenty of thread locker. One more thing worth mentioning is the manual and power window regulators use some different mounting holes in the doors due to being a different size. It's nothing to worry about, but if you are wondering why holes don't line up, try looking around for other holes. The holes are already there, you just need to line it up to figure out which ones. It will only work one way, so that makes it much easier.

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Turns out that the manual door I took the regulator out of was a conversion from power somewhere back down the road. I took the door panel off and was greeted by nuts and bolts holding the manual regulator on, and very clear evidence that whoever did the job had one hell of a time getting the 2 front rivets off the power regulator! LOL!

The swap was amazingly easy, took all of 30 minutes, including swapping in the new key lock assembly. So now I have an '85 car that is all '85, including both doors (no more '88 door! yay!), and I can now lock the car and roll down both windows. What a deal!