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You made it look so easy, I remember some of the old Suburbans we had in Saudi Arabia, that was a staple in our parts inventory. Window regulations, door and rear door. We had about 250 Suburbans and summer was always busy.
I use the Lisle window holder and it works well. I just used it recently when replacing the power window motor on a 92 Cavalier. I wish that job had been as easy as yours. Drilling out rivets and hardly any access holes in the door made things difficult.
as a 77 yr old retired mechanic i can say some things today are actually easier to repair. the window regulators from my early days contributed to the sale of a lot of alcohol.
I am a 64 year old retired mechanic. My experience has been the exact opposite. My main hobby is vintage cars. I currently own a 1964 Ford Fairlane and a 1967 Ford Mustang. I have replaced window regulators in both. Both are manual crank windows. Window regulators are not the easiest things to replace on any car, but I found them to be easier than pretty much any modern car. Just about everything is easier to work on on older cars.
They use to be real aggravating. You would have to line all the rollers up and run the "scissors" up and down until you found the right combination to make it fit. Don't know how many times I've been pinched and cut.
@@InsideOfMyOwnMind Yes. My first had the big 1.6 Iron Duck. Then I upgraded to the bigger 1.9. I found that one to leave me stranded, but only a few times per week.
Eric actually rolled the window down when cleaning the window to get the very top side of window. No idea how hard it is to get professional detailers to do this one simple step for a complete job of window cleaning. Eric O does it just out of his standard practice.
@@Jimbah599 Well, I sold that car back in 2017. It was a 2003 Toyota Camry. The black marks re-appeared nearly instantly. Car had only 50,000 something thousand miles on it too, not an old car nor an abused car, always garage kept, all of the rubbers and plastics were in tip-top shape too.
You have to love it when someone takes pride in their work. I know a lot of shops that would have never taken the extra effort to clean the window and door panel.
@@Pidroe I learned that from an old guy I worked for a long time ago. It didn't rain a lot in Southern California, but it was always the little things like that that customers remembered. You know: put their seat back where you found it, as well as their tilt wheel, leave the radio station alone, except to turn it off, and so on.
As a non-professional backyard mechanic, I was amazed that you did not cut you hands on the metal stampings around the regulator. I guess that is what a professional does. 🙂
I'm pretty sure he missed that one. That said, I'm equally sure that, considering that he's situated in the rust belt, the vehicle will dissolve before that bolt head rubs through the wires. 😛
Made me smile watching you wash the windows after the repair. When I was 16, I worked in a "service station" and every repair we did came with washing all the windows and filling the tires. The boss said it made people "feel" better about the repair... and I believe him.
Well done. It might be a good idea to use a little silicone spray on the window channels to decrease friction and prolong the life of that Dorman regulator.
So many videos of new car reviews of base models. and when people see crank windows and they are screaming about manual widows, this is why I love them. Every time my daughter borrows my truck and complains about the manual everything I tell how much I love my unlock with a key, crank window you adjust mirrors, it makes me love them even more.
Listening to the rain and the quiet explanation by “Dr. O” as he tore the door apart felt almost like one of those “Calm” selections that’s supposed to help you sleep…then you hear “Come on, baby…”, and it’s back to working on cars.
When you went to call the customer you must have been reading my mind. Brilliant. I imagine the conversation went something like this: "Hi Bob. It's Eric O. at South Main Auto. I've been looking at your Buick. The issue with the window is that-" "Read my lips Eric O. I don't care. Fix it. Fix it now." Click. And for us old-timers, a nice dial tone at the end.
In my experience, most of the really good mechanics I worked with were not good at trim jobs. I think it's because it requires much slower work, a lot more patience in R&R, and doing a lot of checking to get the fit and fasteners right. But once again, Eric shows why he is the renaissance man of vehicle repair.
Retired mechanic here, just did this exact repair on my 2007 Buick Rainier Same vehicle as this one .Be careful folks, those regulators have some sharp edges
Now I know why your a top notch mechanic and so "in demand". It's what I learned in the military..."ATTENTION TO DETAIL". You clean the windows after completing the job. Bravo Zulu to you Sir. You are the only auto mechanic/Christian man that I watch as a D'yer.
Hi Eric. I did a similar job on my daughters Honda Civic . Took a chance with a. dormon replacement.& just to de sure bench tested and Film fluid on worm gear & cable. I find the Honda mechanically friendly. Always watching and enjoying no matter what job you’re doing 👍⚔️🛠⚒🇺🇸🇨🇦P.S. I APOLOGIZE ON CANADA ‘s behalf about the smoke. 💨💨
Only one thing you forgot? But it’s nothing really just challenging myself to see if I can ever spot anything for fun really. You forgot to snap the wire harness to the new regulator. All these years and finally seen one thing. Lol. Your still one of the best to ever do it.
That was a WHOLE bunch easier than replacing the window regulators in my 1984 K10. Trying to get those suckers out was a real ordeal. Thanks for the video, Mr. O.
You get a 10 on this job for 🛠assembly and cleanliness !!! At least it's cool while it is 💧🌊🌧raining !!! Unbelievable that you tested the window more than once !!!! That's the quality of a PRNY Avoca SMA Certified 👨🎓SAE Master Automobile Mechanic !!!! Yes, you get what you pay for - Eric is not cheap, but worth his weight in 💰💰💸💸Gold !!!! On to the next job !!!!!
Hi Eric, We had a Trailblazer, 07, replaced the lt. frt window regulator and the remote mirror switch. 200k miles we traded it, the wife wanted a pick-up, She was wanting one since I bought my first one in 73 a 1968 F-100 LWB 2WD in Tucson AZ. had it for 26yrs. Got her a crew cab to haul around the Grand Kids. The women loves pick-ups!! We live in SW Pa.
Another fine job, Mr. O!!! I like that you cleaned the windows where you made the repair, i had my car in the dealer for a similar repair and they didn't even clean their finger smears off the interior door panels they touched, yet alone the window they touched all over.
"It's unlike GM to do something that makes sense." Very true Eric! If you only knew some of the BS hoops they make us parts guys jump through at their dealerships. 😆
Brought back memories from when I did auto glass for a living. I was saying the steps in my head watching you. never a dull moment watching your videos
As a backyard hacker, I have done dozens of regulators and power door lock actuators. Engineers assigned to cococt these contraptions must be limited to C- students exclusively. The cable acuated type was definitely a step backward, they just don't last. I replaced the regulator on my daughter's Town and Country. Every time, the same cable failed. It required removal of an entire interior section of door, After removing the door card, and including removal of the door latch and a half dozen wiring harnesses, speaker and more. The window wasn't bolted to the regulator, you had to pry it off of two plastic clips. The only good thing was , by the third time, I was able to the whole job start to finish in less than an hour.
You never miss a step in the proper procedure in doing something such as this window regulator install.even going to the point of cleaning the window. Kudos to you Eric.!and again thank you for my evening entertainment.
I've changed several window regulators in my day. No matter how careful I am I ALWAYS get the black insulation sealant on me. Its murder on the arm hairs.
That shit is bad. On the clear plastic ones I slice them down the middle and tape them back up. That adhesive gets everywhere on everything. I also use the newer style of pressure adjust suction cups to hold the window up. I find the door panels fit into the top groove a lot easier with the window down.
I was cringing the entire time you were pulling that door skin off. Three years ago January, I was pulling apart my kid's 10yo Mazda... and 8 out of 10 of the little clips broke. I sent my other kid to O'Reilly's three miles away to get replacements... and on the way, they lost control of my truck, slid off the road and wrecked it. No injuries, but the truck was totalled. Which ultimately led to the insurance company declining to renew my policy. So those little clips.... they scare me. 😂
@@2tommyrad The roads were not great, but the shoulder was bad, and the grass beyond the shoulder was terrible - long thick matted-down weeds over soft mud, with a couple inches of wet slush. The silver lining that day - apart from "no injuries" - was that the state police said "look, if you have to get it towed out of there, I'll have to write a report, and if I have to write a report, I'll have to write a citation.... soooo....." I said "......soooo if I can get it out of that stand of trees under its own power, and limp it to the collision place down the road, we don't have to bother with any of that paperwork?" Exactly. So with the full blessing of two PA state police troopers, I put the truck in 4WD and just BLASTED it backwards out of the stand of trees where it was buried, backwards through the ditch, and slid to a stop, slewing the front end around sideways to park neatly in the shoulder of the road. That was FUN. 😂
You are a fine auto technician you always take the time to do the best job you can the people in your area are lucky to have you. See you in the next one MR, O!
Building AC guy says EasyPeasy but we love it... keep them coming...nice watching somebody else grow old Eric. When your posting are delayed I watch your stuff when you were just a kid ( TH-cam wise anyway)..God Bless you and fam.
On the Firebird forums they always recommended aftermarket window motors that have a life time warranty, the thought process was that the aftermarket motors were a quarter of the price of the OEM part, they seemed to last as long as the OEM part, but if they failed, you had a life time warranty. I hope the rain cleared up the smoke for awhile.
That went well. Seems like it’s always a crap shoot taking a door panel off. After having lived in the desert for the last year it was nice to hear the rain in the back ground. Monsoon season is just about here.
That rubber liner looks a lot more robust than the flimsy, foam rubber material they use on most of the cars we see over here in the UK. It's virtually impossible to pull that stuff off without tearing it. I usually end up putting them back on with strips of gaffer tape (duct tape) all over them. Glad I'm retired now and that's one more job I don't have to do any more.
Eric, tomorrow's a big day for me. My Autel scanner arrives! After 10 years of doing my own repairs, thanks to you and a couple others, I'm upping my game. I'm now the neighbor's mechanic, too.
That went very easy! My experience with European cars is quite different - it's a pain to get the plastic cover out intact (pegs tend to break) and regulators used to have 4 cables and it took forever to get them out (usually had to drop the glass to the bottom, to get enough space), have them repaired (much cheaper than a new one) and refit the whole thing, praying for no plastic damage.
A-ha! At around 18:00, you spilled the beans and told us this was a Dorman part. I was wondering when you said that the 3rd bolt wasn't quite lining up - that was when I thought of Dorman. Last year, when the driver side rear window dropped into its track on a rainy evening, on my 2003 Saturn L series, I found out that eBay had some, priced pretty low but might not have as many cycles in it as that Dorman. The worst part was having to keep the window taped shut for the few days it took for the new one to arrive. It's sure easier when you don't have to wait for the part.
Some nice rainstorm ASMR in this episode, very relaxing. I vote that all future episodes are filmed with background foley mics capturing high-fidelity sounds of the great outdoors.
My father was an engineer at Ford, he's long since retired and passed, and his job was working out the kinks that the designers put into their stylish vehicles, making them more user friendly. He would have had a hole drilled in the speaker panel for that last bolt to make it easier for the window regulator to be replaced.
That speaker seems to have a baffle which would be for audio quality. Or that's what I thought of when I saw it. Kind of solves multiple problems at once. Neat.
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Couldn't find the wedges that I had but these rubber door wedges look like they'd do the trick IMO. Any how, happy wrenching!
-Eric O.
You made it look so easy, I remember some of the old Suburbans we had in Saudi Arabia, that was a staple in our parts inventory. Window regulations, door and rear door. We had about 250 Suburbans and summer was always busy.
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I use the Lisle window holder and it works well. I just used it recently when replacing the power window motor on a 92 Cavalier. I wish that job had been as easy as yours. Drilling out rivets and hardly any access holes in the door made things difficult.
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A later Ford Fusion video had you using suction cups and a string. That was genius!
as a 77 yr old retired mechanic i can say some things today are actually easier to repair. the window regulators from my early days contributed to the sale of a lot of alcohol.
My 96 Firebird was terrible. Window was scratched to hell when I was done and so were my hands.
I am a 64 year old retired mechanic. My experience has been the exact opposite. My main hobby is vintage cars. I currently own a 1964 Ford Fairlane and a 1967 Ford Mustang. I have replaced window regulators in both. Both are manual crank windows. Window regulators are not the easiest things to replace on any car, but I found them to be easier than pretty much any modern car. Just about everything is easier to work on on older cars.
@larrysperling8801 and band aids
They use to be real aggravating. You would have to line all the rollers up and run the "scissors" up and down until you found the right combination to make it fit. Don't know how many times I've been pinched and cut.
That's no joke. Some of them were nasty. This one looked to be fairly easy.
That rain in the background is really soothing 😌
Eric is “The mechanic with the on the go lifestyle “.
I laughed out loud when he said that.
@@tetedur377 But wait! There's more!
I always get a good laugh out of the way Eric mocks popular sales slogans like Chevy Thunder and my first new car "had the big 1.0."
@@InsideOfMyOwnMind Yes. My first had the big 1.6 Iron Duck. Then I upgraded to the bigger 1.9. I found that one to leave me stranded, but only a few times per week.
Eric actually rolled the window down when cleaning the window to get the very top side of window. No idea how hard it is to get professional detailers to do this one simple step for a complete job of window cleaning. Eric O does it just out of his standard practice.
The good ones will
On one particular car, the window always got a black line at the top from the seal, even after cleaning. Not worth.
As a former pro detailer i alwas clean the top of the glass with 000 steel wool to get rid of that black streak from the window seal.
@@Guillotines_For_Globalists000 steel wool will remove that without scratching the glass
@@Jimbah599 Well, I sold that car back in 2017. It was a 2003 Toyota Camry. The black marks re-appeared nearly instantly. Car had only 50,000 something thousand miles on it too, not an old car nor an abused car, always garage kept, all of the rubbers and plastics were in tip-top shape too.
You have to love it when someone takes pride in their work. I know a lot of shops that would have never taken the extra effort to clean the window and door panel.
They're the ones that don't have a TH-cam channel with a stadium full of onlooking critics just hankering for something to nitpick.
Yep," because only customers pay wages"😊
And backing the car into the bay so the customer does not have to go out in the rain
The amount of ppl that want a prideful and good mechanic but want to pay like guy that works at your parts store parking lot is insane
@@Pidroe I learned that from an old guy I worked for a long time ago. It didn't rain a lot in Southern California, but it was always the little things like that that customers remembered.
You know: put their seat back where you found it, as well as their tilt wheel, leave the radio station alone, except to turn it off, and so on.
The sound of the rain added a relaxing ambience to watching you work the magic.
One of the easiest window regulators installs ive ever seen wish they were all that simple lol , love your vids keep em coming
As a non-professional backyard mechanic, I was amazed that you did not cut you hands on the metal stampings around the regulator. I guess that is what a professional does. 🙂
😊I believe has " asbestos hands" or " Kevlar klaws" hardly ever see a cut or burn😊
@@joedavidzuniga1993i was just gonna say he has caloused hands but your description is spot on lmao
Knowing how to avoid the sharp edges is helpful!
After a few inside door repairs, cleaning blood off gets old!😂
For sure. Every time I have worked inside a door I end up looking like I lost a fight with a wild cat.
Yea, those damn things are notorious for lopping off appendages 😂😂
I was mechanic for 50 years. Glad to see someone doing proper work these days.
I found the rain very soothing.
Nice job, didn’t see you reattach the wiring harness on the upper right of the regulator, but I bet you did !
no, he missed it
I'm pretty sure he missed that one. That said, I'm equally sure that, considering that he's situated in the rust belt, the vehicle will dissolve before that bolt head rubs through the wires. 😛
he forgot it. it doesnt have enough slack to get into any trouble though.
I'm sure that vehicle already has plenty of louder rattles. They'll never hear that little cable banging around 😄
Geez, Louise! I was waitin' to see a carp floppin' around in the background!!!😆
I told a mechanic friend about the Subaru rear bearing replacement and he watched the video. Thanks to you from him.
Made me smile watching you wash the windows after the repair. When I was 16, I worked in a "service station" and every repair we did came with washing all the windows and filling the tires. The boss said it made people "feel" better about the repair... and I believe him.
You gotta love the CSI clean at the end ……😂🤣🤣🤣
And I am thrilled to see a shop using the best damned glass cleaner on the planet! Good job Mr. O!
I didn't see him use Invisible Glass? Also, he used a regular paper towel not a microfiber towel. Ok, let's flame war over glass cleaning! 🤪
When you were on your knees I fully expected Mrs O to show up !!! 🤣🤣
As a retired mechanic these videos are joy to watch.
The Master at the controls again. More satisfying than a Snickers bar.
Eric O is one heck'va Auto Technician with probably the best one-liners and jokes on the internet 😉👍🏾
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Well done. It might be a good idea to use a little silicone spray on the window channels to decrease friction and prolong the life of that Dorman regulator.
I am EXTREMELY surprised that he did not do this as part of the replacement.
So many videos of new car reviews of base models. and when people see crank windows and they are screaming about manual widows, this is why I love them. Every time my daughter borrows my truck and complains about the manual everything I tell how much I love my unlock with a key, crank window you adjust mirrors, it makes me love them even more.
You did forget one little thing - the tiny Christmas tree clip 7:45 for the wiring clipped to the door handle/latch bracket
I commented on that as well!
Yep this guy is a professional!
Wow it’s hard to find mechanics like this anymore, someone raised him good! Nice shop too! 👍🏻💯
Listening to the rain and the quiet explanation by “Dr. O” as he tore the door apart felt almost like one of those “Calm” selections that’s supposed to help you sleep…then you hear “Come on, baby…”, and it’s back to working on cars.
When you went to call the customer you must have been reading my mind. Brilliant. I imagine the conversation went something like this:
"Hi Bob. It's Eric O. at South Main Auto. I've been looking at your Buick. The issue with the window is that-"
"Read my lips Eric O. I don't care. Fix it. Fix it now." Click. And for us old-timers, a nice dial tone at the end.
Watching this at midnight in Texas, that rain sounds relaxing as hell and I must put me to sleep...
Really enjoyed a least one shot of the pouring rain. Thanks from Oregon. We don't tan, we rust.
In my experience, most of the really good mechanics I worked with were not good at trim jobs. I think it's because it requires much slower work, a lot more patience in R&R, and doing a lot of checking to get the fit and fasteners right. But once again, Eric shows why he is the renaissance man of vehicle repair.
Retired mechanic here, just did this exact repair on my 2007 Buick Rainier Same vehicle as this one .Be careful folks, those regulators have some sharp edges
Now I know why your a top notch mechanic and so "in demand". It's what I learned in the military..."ATTENTION TO DETAIL". You clean the windows after completing the job. Bravo Zulu to you Sir. You are the only auto mechanic/Christian man that I watch as a D'yer.
Hi Eric. I did a similar job on my daughters Honda Civic . Took a chance with a. dormon replacement.& just to de sure bench tested and Film fluid on worm gear & cable. I find the Honda mechanically friendly. Always watching and enjoying no matter what job you’re doing 👍⚔️🛠⚒🇺🇸🇨🇦P.S. I APOLOGIZE ON CANADA ‘s behalf about the smoke. 💨💨
Only one thing you forgot? But it’s nothing really just challenging myself to see if I can ever spot anything for fun really. You forgot to snap the wire harness to the new regulator. All these years and finally seen one thing. Lol. Your still one of the best to ever do it.
That rain is relaxing
The background sound of rain is very soothing :)
South Main ASMR Repair...the rain in the background and the smooth repair was very soothing. Thanks Eric, you are a real stress reliever on this one.
I was waiting for you to say "There comes the rain again, falling on my head like a memory..."
The one and only time I replaced a regulator it was held in place by rivets. Now that shows a lot of confidence that it will never need to be replaced
Loved the sound of the rain in the background. Thanks for the video Mr O.
Being from Phoenix (119 today), I sure do appreciate the sound of that rain!
That Sprayway glass cleaner is amazing stuff.
F150 got the secret bolts behind the secret plastic behind the door handle. :)
That was a WHOLE bunch easier than replacing the window regulators in my 1984 K10. Trying to get those suckers out was a real ordeal. Thanks for the video, Mr. O.
You get a 10 on this job for 🛠assembly and cleanliness !!! At least it's cool while it is 💧🌊🌧raining !!! Unbelievable that you tested the window more than once !!!! That's the quality of a PRNY Avoca SMA Certified 👨🎓SAE Master Automobile Mechanic !!!! Yes, you get what you pay for - Eric is not cheap, but worth his weight in 💰💰💸💸Gold !!!! On to the next job !!!!!
The best part of your videos is how you end them, always a treat to hear you come up with a clever finishing line!
Where is the outro power chord after the “Thanks for watchin’” ??!! I’m shaken!
Loved your ending where you laughed at your self. Thanks for keeping me company while I ate my Lunch.
I thought at first that downtown Avoca had a lot of traffic until you mentioned about the rain!
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Hi Eric, We had a Trailblazer, 07, replaced the lt. frt window regulator and the remote mirror switch. 200k miles we traded it, the wife wanted a pick-up, She was wanting one since I bought my first one in 73 a 1968 F-100 LWB 2WD in Tucson AZ. had it for 26yrs. Got her a crew cab to haul around the Grand Kids. The women loves pick-ups!! We live in SW Pa.
I miss rain.....
- The South
Another fine job, Mr. O!!! I like that you cleaned the windows where you made the repair, i had my car in the dealer for a similar repair and they didn't even clean their finger smears off the interior door panels they touched, yet alone the window they touched all over.
Nice warm rain storm to set the pace, and back down the Canadian smoke! That's another one for the books. Thanks Eric! GMC
That rain added a nice mood to the video.
That rain sounds wonderful. Gotta love the smell of rain and a garage. They should make a body spray.
I really enjoy all repairs on this channel
“..for the mechanic with the on the go lifestyle.” Fabulous. Among the many DIY jobs I do window work usually results in the most blood loss.
At the end, I swear I thought you were about to say "If you can do it, I can do it!" 😁
Thanks Eric every time I watch you it reinforces the need for patience and to think about what you are doing.Regards to Mrs O.
"It's unlike GM to do something that makes sense." Very true Eric! If you only knew some of the BS hoops they make us parts guys jump through at their dealerships. 😆
Brought back memories from when I did auto glass for a living. I was saying the steps in my head watching you. never a dull moment watching your videos
As a backyard hacker, I have done dozens of regulators and power door lock actuators. Engineers assigned to cococt these contraptions must be limited to C- students exclusively. The cable acuated type was definitely a step backward, they just don't last. I replaced the regulator on my daughter's Town and Country. Every time, the same cable failed. It required removal of an entire interior section of door, After removing the door card, and including removal of the door latch and a half dozen wiring harnesses, speaker and more. The window wasn't bolted to the regulator, you had to pry it off of two plastic clips. The only good thing was , by the third time, I was able to the whole job start to finish in less than an hour.
You never miss a step in the proper procedure in doing something such as this window regulator install.even going to the point of cleaning the window. Kudos to you Eric.!and again thank you for my evening entertainment.
You even cleaned the part of the window that pushes up into the molding! Very impressive.
And no rust hit the floor in this video! Thx as always .
You forgot to snap one white wire clip back into place before putting the rubber shield back on!
I've changed several window regulators in my day.
No matter how careful I am I ALWAYS get the black insulation sealant on me. Its murder on the arm hairs.
Also. You are welcome for the smoke. Everyone loves the smell of a campfire....
That shit is bad. On the clear plastic ones I slice them down the middle and tape them back up. That adhesive gets everywhere on everything. I also use the newer style of pressure adjust suction cups to hold the window up. I find the door panels fit into the top groove a lot easier with the window down.
The last one that I did, I had to drill rivets out that were holding the regulator. That chevy was a lot easier. Thanks Eric.
Almost lulled me to sleep with the rain sounds. 😂
I was cringing the entire time you were pulling that door skin off. Three years ago January, I was pulling apart my kid's 10yo Mazda... and 8 out of 10 of the little clips broke. I sent my other kid to O'Reilly's three miles away to get replacements... and on the way, they lost control of my truck, slid off the road and wrecked it. No injuries, but the truck was totalled. Which ultimately led to the insurance company declining to renew my policy. So those little clips.... they scare me. 😂
Lesson? Never ask for help. lol It always costs you in the end.😎
@@2tommyrad The roads were not great, but the shoulder was bad, and the grass beyond the shoulder was terrible - long thick matted-down weeds over soft mud, with a couple inches of wet slush. The silver lining that day - apart from "no injuries" - was that the state police said "look, if you have to get it towed out of there, I'll have to write a report, and if I have to write a report, I'll have to write a citation.... soooo....." I said "......soooo if I can get it out of that stand of trees under its own power, and limp it to the collision place down the road, we don't have to bother with any of that paperwork?" Exactly. So with the full blessing of two PA state police troopers, I put the truck in 4WD and just BLASTED it backwards out of the stand of trees where it was buried, backwards through the ditch, and slid to a stop, slewing the front end around sideways to park neatly in the shoulder of the road. That was FUN. 😂
You are a fine auto technician you always take the time to do the best job you can the people in your area are lucky to have you. See you in the next one MR, O!
It’s kinda peaceful listening to the rain…….!
Building AC guy says
EasyPeasy but we love it... keep them coming...nice watching somebody else grow old Eric. When your posting are delayed I watch your stuff when you were just a kid ( TH-cam wise anyway)..God Bless you and fam.
That is definitely one of the easier ones to do ! Some can be a real challenge!
Being in a summer drought three years running it was a joy hearing the rain.
As an added bonus we got to see pythons in our trip to the gun show.
On the Firebird forums they always recommended aftermarket window motors that have a life time warranty, the thought process was that the aftermarket motors were a quarter of the price of the OEM part, they seemed to last as long as the OEM part, but if they failed, you had a life time warranty.
I hope the rain cleared up the smoke for awhile.
Always nice to see the rain
I love the relaxing rain sounds today Eric ... 😉
That went well. Seems like it’s always a crap shoot taking a door panel off.
After having lived in the desert for the last year it was nice to hear the rain in the back ground. Monsoon season is just about here.
That rubber liner looks a lot more robust than the flimsy, foam rubber material they use on most of the cars we see over here in the UK. It's virtually impossible to pull that stuff off without tearing it. I usually end up putting them back on with strips of gaffer tape (duct tape) all over them. Glad I'm retired now and that's one more job I don't have to do any more.
Gaffer tape is not duct tape. It's stronger, sticks better and has to be cut ( can tear it lengthwise).
Far too many times it isn't even butyl, it's often just polythene sheet which tears as soon as you look at it.
My 95 sierra just had clear plastic.
After watching some vehcor videos it seems GM has the best liners in the biz
Wait. You put the liner back on? 🤣
Good mood today! That's always nice. Thanks!
Eric, tomorrow's a big day for me. My Autel scanner arrives! After 10 years of doing my own repairs, thanks to you and a couple others, I'm upping my game. I'm now the neighbor's mechanic, too.
That rain sounds amazing
Open and shut case, good video.Thanks for taking the time
That's what I always suspected about you Eric... That on-the-go-lifestyle mechanic... That ACTIVE lifestyle. That must go well in the PRNY.
😂😂😂 love when you promote the wera.. it’s always the same speil ❤
That went very easy! My experience with European cars is quite different - it's a pain to get the plastic cover out intact (pegs tend to break) and regulators used to have 4 cables and it took forever to get them out (usually had to drop the glass to the bottom, to get enough space), have them repaired (much cheaper than a new one) and refit the whole thing, praying for no plastic damage.
Great video as always. The struggle to get the regulator out made me smile. Been there a few times.
The rain sounds fabulous! Great video as always Mr O!
A-ha! At around 18:00, you spilled the beans and told us this was a Dorman part. I was wondering when you said that the 3rd bolt wasn't quite lining up - that was when I thought of Dorman. Last year, when the driver side rear window dropped into its track on a rainy evening, on my 2003 Saturn L series, I found out that eBay had some, priced pretty low but might not have as many cycles in it as that Dorman. The worst part was having to keep the window taped shut for the few days it took for the new one to arrive. It's sure easier when you don't have to wait for the part.
Some nice rainstorm ASMR in this episode, very relaxing. I vote that all future episodes are filmed with background foley mics capturing high-fidelity sounds of the great outdoors.
I like the fact that you treated the vehicle like it was yours....ex you cleaned the window.
You are awesome Eric! Not even an extra charge for the rain sounds
Great job Eric. I usually break a few tabs by pulling the panel off.
Yeah me to half the time haha
love the sound of the rain
Man the way you work is the same as a marine cleaning his rifle blind folded.
Love your Tic Toks. You were the rainman that day.
That speaker coming out like that is genius. That opens the space up so much. Most of the time you have to work in 2 little squares...
My father was an engineer at Ford, he's long since retired and passed, and his job was working out the kinks that the designers put into their stylish vehicles, making them more user friendly. He would have had a hole drilled in the speaker panel for that last bolt to make it easier for the window regulator to be replaced.
@@clintshiplett8548 I was a Ford mechanic for a lot of years. I remember having to drill holes in those panels. They were dimpled, but not drilled.
That speaker seems to have a baffle which would be for audio quality. Or that's what I thought of when I saw it. Kind of solves multiple problems at once. Neat.
Love the sound of rain! Send some my way....to Arizona!
So sweet, backing it in so the customer doesn't have to get wet.