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I always had problems on the drivers side only with the brass geared motor not quite able to raise the window without help. I disconneced the lower ends of the guides while raising and lowering the window, and slotted the door frame holes so all stress was (apparently) removed. I also shimmed the regulator out from the door a bit for the same reason. Both these helped- a little.
In disgust in early '06, I spent a bunch of money on Ted's 'Vader' system & installed it in 40 minutes (for both sides). Zero troubles since. The Vader system includes his own pre-formed window guides and seems to have a more powerful motor that somehow uses less amperage than stock for 2-6X quicker roll-up times. Bonuses are the almost 15 lbs of weight lost for the stock stuff no longer used, and the glass now goes all the way down level with the door tops. The single hitch I had was, on the passenger side there was so much undercoating on the inside of the door-skin I had to scrape some off to allow the window to roll down completely. This incidently is covered in the illustrated 4 pg instructions. And it still only took 40 min for both, with no holes drilled, no bending or twisting, hand tools only and no naughty words needed during installation. Written up in Oct 06 POCA News and highly recommended!
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