And now for another episode of “Adventures in Redneck Auto Repair” Ok. Here’s the scenario. You embark on a journey to town to do some necessary food shopping. Three miles from home you decide to open your vehicle window just a little to vent out the smoke from the cheap cigar you’re smoking. You hit the switch too hard and it opens all the way, in the rain. You pull the switch to close the window and it breaks internally so the window will not close. What do you do? Well first you turn around and drive back home so you can work in your garage of course. ;-) Next, if you’re a wise redneck like me you’d have purchased a set of service manuals for your vehicle. You get them out and turn to the section on Body Electrics. You locate the schematic for the window switch wiring and figure out what terminals you need to connect in order to close the window. This is only for the type of redneck who is familiar with reading schematics and has some experience with electric circuits, which I assume there are quite a few. Being I worked with this type of thing for 25 years I know enough not to try and do it willy nilly and wind up blowing a fuse – which reminds me that I need to buy spare fuses and perhaps a full set of spare bulbs. Next, you cut a couple of short wires, preferably 16 gauge solid copper which is stiff enough to push easily into the terminals, to jump the necessary terminals. You then remove the switch panel – mine just pops right out easily - disconnect the plug on the window switch unit and with the ignition switch turned off you insert the two wires – you need two because it’s a DC polarity thing – and if you did it right when you turn the ignition switch on the window will close. Keep the wires in the vehicle in case you forget and open the window again until you can locate a replacement for the switch module, if you can. I’m lucky because I just found an internet dealer that has the one I need. :-) On the next episode of “Adventures in Redneck Auto Repair”, 101 uses for Duct Tape. ;-)
Posted on: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 03:07:13 +0000
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