You SOB's jinxed me and the window!

[Ingo Rautenberg]

Cody,

I did just that -- except used the clamps for steel cable instead of  
soldering.  At the time I bought the cable at my local Home Depot.  I  
had to piece together pieces from two window regulators to make it  
work properly and fit properly ('83 Urq). Took the better part of a  
day, but worked flawlessly.  It CAN be done.  Just depends on how far  
gone things are as to how long it will take to remedy.

Ingo
'84 urq - '91 V8 5 spd - '93 V8 - '90 V8 (project) - '90 90s



On Jul 3, 2006, at 9:29 AM, quattro-request at audifans.com wrote:

> Ok now this is getting freaky. You guys jinxed me too! I just had  
> to replace the drivers regulator 2 weeks because of a FUBAR cable  
> (incredibly frayed but not broken), now just this morning my  
> passenger rear quit and makes the noise of a frayed cable. ARGHH!!
>
> I just though of a repair method that I may try. When you get a  
> badly frayed cable why not cut it a few cm from the slider and cut  
> off a few cm from the other end where it attaches to the motor  
> pulley then find some replacement cable (Lowes?) and solder in the  
> right lenth of brand new cable? Seems to me that it would not take  
> very long at all and the cable would cost just a few bucks for  
> enough cable to do a whole car's worth of windows. What am I  
> forgetting and/or why won't that work?
>
> -Cody Forbes
> http://www.5000tq.com
> '86 5k noT noQ
> '86 5k noT noQ - Parting Out
> '87 5ktq
> '87 5ktq - Fast. Really Fast.