How to put a Manual suburban rear window regulator into a blazer tailgate.

[kaharshs]

Hello,

Not sure if some one wrote this up already didnt see anything when I searched. But I have been having trouble with my electric rear window. The damn cable from the window regulator to the motor kept breaking. I have been searching the junkyard over and over to find a manual tailgate blazer and only see suburbans with them. So I bought the rear window handle and regulator from the 84 suburban that was easy to get to in the junkyard. For a toal of $36 out the door. I went home and did a little research from the lmc catalogs to find out the cranks for the rear windows are the same part number and just the regulator are different. Look the the manual one and the electric one I had showed they would bolt up. So I went to installing them only to find out the the regulator was about a 1/2" to long protruding into the crank handle. The simple fix make it a little shorter and weld it back on. Bold right in and work great now. The only thing is the window rolls down byt stays sticking out about 2 inches. Not sure if this is normal for the door or mine is just messed up . Either way for $36 you cant beat it. And here are the pictures.

Kyle

 

[kaharshs]

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[S Coulon]

You said in the description that the window sticks out 2" but in the picture i cant see it sticking out in the picture, im just wondering want to be sure because ive been having a similar problem on my 85 K5 and would like to just go manual on a budget

 

[kaharshs]

In the picture I took the window out because i am doing body work for paint and needed to take the handle off. I think it may just be a problem with my window or regulator hitting on something but I will figure it out and post what was wrong or how to make it go all the way down.

 

[S Coulon]

alright thanks man, appreciate it, always wanted to go manual on the tailgate

 

[mnstrburbon]

Mine goes all the way down on my sub factory manual. I think if it does not go down all the way it locks out the latch so you cant open it, a safety feature.
My handle is a Little sloppy good to hear the blazer is the same part number.

 

[kaharshs]

I was looking at my handle too because it was kinda sloppy and its designed that way. So you can roll the window down in pretty much any position and still get it to lock into itself, instead of hanging. Its really only a c clip that keeps it from pulling out too. Kinda shady but works forever.

 

[lectric80]

In the picture I took the window out because i am doing body work for paint and needed to take the handle off. I think it may just be a problem with my window or regulator hitting on something but I will figure it out and post what was wrong or how to make it go all the way down.

I can't be absolutely certain, since I haven't tried the manual regulator from a Burb, but rough measurements last year while stripping some parts from a Burb shows that the window, and the opening on a Burb are shorter than on a Blazer. Some parts will interchange between the two, but the window and regulator are different because of this. That may be why it doesn't roll down all the way, since the Burb didn't have to move the window as far as a Blazer does.

It you want I can probably grab exact measurements of the glass in both and tell you how much different they are, but from memory I want to say around 1.5".