Power windows in 64

All of the following pages were written a year ago! Everything worked ok, however as I continued on the car, there were several modifications that had to be made. (the car has been a long term project!)

The first is that as stated in the following pages, there are several different gear ratios used in the older power window regulator assemblies. You can't just change the gears! You have to change the whole assembly. The motors appear to be the same and should interchange. The windows went up and down just too fast! I ended up going back to the junk yard and found assemblies that had a larger "driven" gear and went through the whole process again. They now appear rather fast, but I think it's as good as it gets.

The other problem that I encountered was that the cool relay assembly that I made up was in the way of the Vintage Air kit that I wanted to install (November 98 Chevy High Performance magazine--shameless self promotion). I ended up having to make a totally new assembly that was long and thin. All of the relays are now mounted in a row and the assembly mounts below the lip of the glove box. At the same time, I mounted a fuse block to the assembly.

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This page is being added just to give ideas on what can be done with some creative junk yard hunting and modifying.

I decided that I wanted power windows in my 64 2 door wagon. There are several problems with this. The first is the fact that although power windows were an option in 64, they were real rare! I also had to make door panels due to nobody making any for the 2 door wagons (the truth is that I could use El Camino door panels, but you can't get the rear panels). The other thing that added problems was the fact that I wanted to wire up the door switches so that they were "grounding" and controlled relays that ran the motors (part of the reasoning for this is due to having the alarm system roll up the windows when activated).

Most of what is contained here was originally on my "service bay" page. What was unknown at that time was if the completed set-up would work. Well, it's now all together and the glass does indeed go up and down as it should (although rather fast).

If you have a 68 or newer car, I'd recommend that you skip this page and just head off to the junk yard.

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In order to do this, I had to have my "parts dog" Snarfy hunt down the stuff to be able to do the conversion.

This is a photo of Snarfy. Without his help, the project wouldn't have been possible. He just lives for junk yards.

go to part 2 Modifying regulators

go to part 3 Boots and wires to the doors

go to part 4 Wiring the relay assembly

go to part 5 Making the door panels

 

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