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Offline Harmon

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Power Window wire question
« on: October 03, 2010, 07:05:38 PM »
This is hard to explain, but I know it must be a common issue...

On the passenger side door, one wire has come off the metal tang that goes into the "black" harness that closes up into which the switch pushes into.  I could not get the old metal tang to open up to sodder the wire back into it.  Im not sure what to do, right now (door panels off) I have to touch the wire to the metal tang inside the black harness box to make the window go down....any suggestions on what to do to fix this..?
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Offline VileZambonie

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Re: Power Window wire question
« Reply #1 on: October 03, 2010, 07:35:02 PM »
Are you talking about the connector for the power window switch?

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Re: Power Window wire question
« Reply #2 on: October 03, 2010, 07:40:02 PM »
yeah...the wire goes into the "connector"....I have the connector but have had no luck Opening it up and crimping/soddering it to the wire...
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Offline modular93fox

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Re: Power Window wire question
« Reply #3 on: October 03, 2010, 10:34:47 PM »
buy a new connector or go to the junk yard, grab a few spare connectors or a few extra wires. or just keep touching the wires to the black connector to operate the window... few choices.
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Re: Power Window wire question
« Reply #4 on: October 04, 2010, 05:58:08 AM »
The metal terminal connectors can be bought new--pretty cheap.  I don't remember where I saw them, but they're out there.  Or as mentioned you could go to a junkyard and pull the whole switch connector as a pigtail.  I had a hard time finding any that had not already been cut off--apparently a hot item.  Finally found a driver's side from a truck that was a little difficult to get into because of door damage, but couldn't find a passenger one.  I finally decided to look at some different gm vehicles and found one in an old Vandura van that was the same.
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Re: Power Window wire question
« Reply #5 on: October 04, 2010, 04:47:49 PM »
Just get a new power window pigtail. If you use the search function you will see I posted a link to the very same connector a while back.
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Re: Power Window wire question
« Reply #6 on: October 04, 2010, 04:51:16 PM »
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Re: Power Window wire question
« Reply #7 on: October 04, 2010, 06:17:41 PM »
awesome thanks!
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Re: Power Window wire question
« Reply #8 on: October 04, 2010, 06:29:55 PM »
I would have bought that one, but I wasn't 100% sure if it was the right one.  I called the dealer and they gave me the part number, but said it was discontinued and also told me that acdelco wouldn't have it if his computer showed it discontinued.  I should have checked into it more but went the junkyard route.  Sorry, I didn't keep the gm part#'s.
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