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After doing a GT electric window conversion write up and video, I was going to throw away the 5 excellent condition regulators I had acquired during my latest car fix up. Sure enough, someone gave me schitt for throwing away good regulators and another guy asked if he could get one of them. So I fished them all out for inspection and to figure out which ones were right or left.
I have 2 right/left pairs with the small spool and one that has the big spool. I couldn't see markings to indicate right/left, even though I've done this before, or maybe my old man eyesight just wouldn't let me see them. I had to search for some old threads to find out where to look. It turns out that those threads were MY threads.
The marking is above the words on the rim of the smaller spools. They say "Re" for "rechts"(right) over the Opel "eye", with "2" over the word "Atlas", and "Li" for "links"(left) under the "eye", with "1" over "Atlas". The big spool one had an "L" on the hub of the spool. :
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I friggin' hate these dang regulators after 40 years of living with them in GT's and them making GT windows the absolute crappiest windows I have ever experienced. While I was searching through the old threads I found a section where I had gotten curious about why there was so much resistance built into them and pics of one particularly crappy one that I took apart. It turns out that that one was particularly crappy because the gear inside had cracked into 3 pieces. Yet, it still worked! Poorly though. The "resistance" in the mechanism is caused by a built in "clutch", whose grip you need to overcome to make the spool turn. It's purpose is to prevent the window from slowly sliding down to the bottom after being rolled up by binding the mechanism. Here's the pics:
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Pics are from this thread, which has other useful info and electric window suggestions.:
www.opelgt.com
I have 2 right/left pairs with the small spool and one that has the big spool. I couldn't see markings to indicate right/left, even though I've done this before, or maybe my old man eyesight just wouldn't let me see them. I had to search for some old threads to find out where to look. It turns out that those threads were MY threads.
The marking is above the words on the rim of the smaller spools. They say "Re" for "rechts"(right) over the Opel "eye", with "2" over the word "Atlas", and "Li" for "links"(left) under the "eye", with "1" over "Atlas". The big spool one had an "L" on the hub of the spool. :
I friggin' hate these dang regulators after 40 years of living with them in GT's and them making GT windows the absolute crappiest windows I have ever experienced. While I was searching through the old threads I found a section where I had gotten curious about why there was so much resistance built into them and pics of one particularly crappy one that I took apart. It turns out that that one was particularly crappy because the gear inside had cracked into 3 pieces. Yet, it still worked! Poorly though. The "resistance" in the mechanism is caused by a built in "clutch", whose grip you need to overcome to make the spool turn. It's purpose is to prevent the window from slowly sliding down to the bottom after being rolled up by binding the mechanism. Here's the pics:
Pics are from this thread, which has other useful info and electric window suggestions.:
GT Window Regulators
I discovered that my latest car had two left side window regulators, one of which has a worn out gear. Since I'll be converting to electric windows, I'll want good healthy regs, if not out right new ones. I saw that OGTS offered a rebuilding service for $45, so I asked them if they could just...
www.opelgt.com
