HOW TO REMOVE A WINDOW REGULATOR FROM A JEEP CHEROKEE

Video Transcript

What's up, guys. It's Matt with Bleepinjeep.com, and today we're going to be doing a quick DIY and Drive tutorial with Pull-A-Part Used Auto Parts. Let's do it. All right, so I want to show you how to pull the window regulator out of the door.

Now, the window regulator is what makes the door go up and down. You either have a crank one or you have an electric one. So the first thing you need to do is remove the panel. I've got another video on that if you need a lot of detail, but it's pretty simple. You just take some screws out. You pop the plastic clips on the back there, and then you lift usually up and to the right, and it slides right off. Under there, you might find some electrical connections attached to that panel, so just disconnect those and disconnect those little plastic clips and pull those off.

The next thing we need to do is just pull this off exclude. So we're just going to peel this back, so we can get inside the door. Now, you can keep this, and it might come in handy when you get home to seal up your door. This basically just keeps air and water out. OK, so the window rides on a track. It's kind of like a chain system that pushes it up and down. Now you notice that the window is rolled up. If you had a manual window, it wouldn't be a problem. You could just roll it up and down however you like. But with an electric window, it's a little bit more difficult. Here is my solution to that problem. Just take yourself a battery from a cordless drill. This one happens to be a Ryobi, and put some electrical tape around the top. I've got two alligator clips, one on each side, that's touching the positive and the negative. OK, so the other two, we're going to connect that to the motor.

Now, what you do is you just take your knife, I found the motor. The motor is sitting right back here, and I found the wires that are coming out of the motor. And I just stripped some of the insulation off of those wires. Now, we're going to hotwire that motor. If you want it to go down, you do it that way. If you want it to go up, you just switch these around and go up. There's only two wires, so either one's going to go down, one's going to go up, and that's all there is to it. Now, we want to get the glass out, because that's going to give us access to getting the window regulator out/ you're going to have to take the glass off first. So let's pull this back down, and those are the bolts that we need to get to.

All right, now the glass is free, and we'll pull it up to the top. While the glass is down, go ahead and remove as much of this weather stripping as you can. That'll help get the glass out easier. Now, let's go ahead and pull it through. There you go. OK, now we've got that taken care of. All we need to do is unbolt some bolts and try to figure out how to get this thing out of here. There is the bottom of the track, top of the track, the motor, and the wiring harness. So let's start with these bolts. After taking two of those out, I realized that I've got holes on the top, so you just have to loosen them up a little bit on this particular vehicle. Slide it up and back, and it comes out. That's cool. Let's do the same thing with the motor. OK, and now it's going to be like a fishing game trying to get this fished out of there. It's got one of those plastic clips, so it looks like I can pull it off of there, I'll be able to access it better. There we go. All right, now, we you just got this clip. Now, on these with the little red piece gone through, it actually-- you have to pull that out before you can unclip it. So it's like a little safety mechanism, and then you still have to push here and slide out. So that's it.