%$#&% window motors

[polara71]

Says you..I love roll up windows.

 

[commando1]

Says you..I love roll up windows.

I was referring to power windows. I love Armstrong Power. Never fails unless Arthur Itis comes to visit.

 

[kmccabe56]

Left rear. Yes. Rears are much easier. It's not the r&r of the motor that I dislike it's the r&r of the door panels I detest. The crappy fiberboard backing always deteriorates where the clips attach and the clips themselves are a nightmare.

I have 4 new motors (2left, 2 right) that I'm hoarding for when I run out of used ones. I know. WHY won't I use the new motors? Because I'm anal....

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Have you got one of these? I know the door panels are on the PITA hit parade, but this tool (which also looks remarkably like a dandelion weeder) seems to help.

http://www.amazon.com/Lisle-35260-P...id=1354500498&sr=8-1&keywords=door+panel+tool

 

[kmccabe56]

Machine? Sorry, but that's funny. The "machine" was the big rubber mallet. If he was lucky! Otherwise it was his fist.

 

[commando1]

Have you got one of these? I know the door panels are on the PITA hit parade, but this tool (which also looks remarkably like a dandelion weeder) seems to help.

http://www.amazon.com/Lisle-35260-Plastic-Fastener-Remover/dp/B0002SRCMO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1354500498&sr=8-1&keywords=door+panel+tool

That's the exact same tool I use

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[commando1]

Machine? Sorry, but that's funny. The "machine" was the big rubber mallet. If he was lucky! Otherwise it was his fist.

What would have been really lucky was a car passing through that work station with ALL the clips correctly in the hole instead of being smooshed over and crumbling the door panel backing board which I swear was made out of compressed flour. water, and sawdust.

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[kmccabe56]

What would have been really lucky was a car passing through that work station with ALL the clips correctly in the hole instead of being smooshed over and crumbling the door panel backing board which I swear was made out of compressed flour. water, and sawdust.

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If you ever had a tour through Jefferson Assembly in the last 10 years that it built cars, you'd know that any car that got built and actually ran was purely accidental.

 

[commando1]

You should read the Harvard Business School case study of Tarrytown. What a hell hole it was. Incredibly scary.

http://hbr.org/1979/07/quality-of-work-life-learning-from-tarrytown/ar/1

 

[1978 NYB]

I bet the guy banging them on could do it in his sleep. I wish the backboard material was made out of better materials.

 

[kmccabe56]

Read the Tarrytown case study. As scary as it sounds, it's actually pretty typical of the relationship between management and labour in most `Big 3' automotive assembly plants during that time. Relationships have progressed considerably since then. There are still no `love-ins', but M&L have now come to realize that as the autoextremist says "It's all about the product, stupid." Anyone who has a favourite car from that era has probably put in hours and hours of their time working out the bugs that were inherent in the designs of the cars. I know I have with my '79 daily driver. It's now a dependable reliable piece that gets favourable comments whenever I'm out with it. We play with these cars because we like them and the fond memories they keep going.

 

[commando1]

Read the Tarrytown case study. As scary as it sounds, it's actually pretty typical of the relationship between management and labour in most `Big 3' automotive assembly plants during that time.

That IS the scary part. It being typical...

 

[1978 NYB]

That IS the scary part. It being typical...

That's typical with most big business. I've always been in the Management side of the house and it's always an "us verus them" mentality. I had 137 out of a 2000 man workforce working for me and it took about 2 years to convince them that I wasn't out to get anybody......wanted everybody safe and productive.