Type 44 power window lift cable off pulley

Smeins, Larry lsmeins at ball.com
Tue Jun 5 09:48:15 EDT 2001


14 years and 270k miles after being built and the drivers side power window
sticks in the down position.  Oh, the terrible reliability of these old
Audis, not.  Anyway, late last week when I tried to raise the drivers side
window on my 87 5kcst it came up a bit and stuck.  It would go back down but
refused to raise more than 1/4 up.  I finally got into it last night,
expecting broken bits, and found the lift cable was off of the upper pulley.
I suspect the cable came off the pulley when the window was being  lowered
due to excess slack in the cables.  I haven't attempted a fix, yet.  Bentley
wasn't very helpful so I'm coming to the real source of Audi information.
Is the cable popping off the pulley a sign of other problems or will putting
it back on fix the problem for another x number of years?  Can the slack be
removed by adjustment if that was the root problem?  The window cannot be
raised by hand at this time and the cables are taut.  How should I proceed
to get enough slack in the cables to put the upper one back over the pulley.
Or, how do I fix the problem?  I miss my Audi.

Larry



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