1966 satellite convertible rear window regulators who rebuilds them?
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Jeremiah
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Are they stiff? I have had luck soaking them, blowing them out, and drilling a hole to spray lithium grease into the regulator. I also recommend tack weld on the scissor arms because the rivets have a tendency to come loose.
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Google repair kits and also YOU TUBE has some video's on repairing them.
PurpleBeeper
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Wow, sorry to hear that. Be VERY careful with those regulators since the back ones on convertibles are rare as heck. I'm no expert on this, but my 2-cents is it sounds like what you think ("feels stripped") is probably correct.
I suggest you pull out at least one rear interior panel & maybe get one of those little "dentist mirrors on an antennae" things and look at the regulators really close while cranking the windows. There must be some kind of small gear (what I suspect is stripped) behind or inside the "box looking thing" where the window crank spline comes out. That small gear turns and moves the "1/2-moon big flat gear looking thing." I bet there's a good chance you could gut a regular hardtop regulator and find a way to take apart that "box looking thing" (drilling out rivets & replacing with screws?) and swap just the small gear since I bet the two gears are the same. However, I would want to be pretty darn positive it would work before I started drilling open some rear 1/4 convertible window regulators. Maybe you could cut open a hardtop regulator and get some idea if it's possible?
I suggest you pull out at least one rear interior panel & maybe get one of those little "dentist mirrors on an antennae" things and look at the regulators really close while cranking the windows. There must be some kind of small gear (what I suspect is stripped) behind or inside the "box looking thing" where the window crank spline comes out. That small gear turns and moves the "1/2-moon big flat gear looking thing." I bet there's a good chance you could gut a regular hardtop regulator and find a way to take apart that "box looking thing" (drilling out rivets & replacing with screws?) and swap just the small gear since I bet the two gears are the same. However, I would want to be pretty darn positive it would work before I started drilling open some rear 1/4 convertible window regulators. Maybe you could cut open a hardtop regulator and get some idea if it's possible?
Jeremiah
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Purple you are correct. The regulator from a sedan rear door or 1/4 window works good. If the OP needs them I have some 4-door regulators that could donate parts.
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