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K5 Endgate Window Poll

Where does your K5 Endgate window fall

  • Power - Works great, use it all the time, never touched it

    Votes: 120 28.4%
  • Power - Works great, use it all the time, but I've rebuilt it

    Votes: 66 15.6%
  • Power - You mean that window is supposed to roll down?

    Votes: 72 17.1%
  • Power - What Window?

    Votes: 18 4.3%
  • Manual - Works great, use it all the time, never touched it

    Votes: 45 10.7%
  • Manual - Works great, use it all the time, but I've rebuilt it

    Votes: 33 7.8%
  • Manual - You mean that window is supposed to roll down?

    Votes: 31 7.3%
  • Manual - What Window?

    Votes: 37 8.8%

  • Total voters
    422
My manual falls about an inch if it's not locked, if locked it falls typically about 4 to 6 inches, I have ignored it long enough that it falls all the way down. I suppose it's time to replace the regulator. The springs are shot!!! I've replaced every other component already.
 
took my factory tailgate off. replaced it with pickup tailgate. much lighter,and im ordering a softtop once my lift gets here and installed. anyone need any parts off factory tailgate let me know.
 
mine still works but is getting real slow, need to replace the motor, i tried the cable already , no diff, the side windows were the same way, have replaced one motor and its great now..
 
Right now It doesn't work to great because of the cold weather, but in the summer, I have never had a problem.
 
It works but it has taken some adjustments you might say. Can't wait to get that soft top, then the whole end will be replaced with a pickup tailgate.:grin:
 
LOL this thread has been viewed 2x as much as the sticky "Pleas Read Before Posting" thread
 
Is the pick up tailgate a direct swap?

Damn window. But kind of usefull in wintertime :D
 
BigCountryx said:
My power window works fine, but does make some noise and it has a "Clunk" about half way up.:confused:




That clunk means its gonna stop half way up soon. Now I have to pull the window up while turning the key.
 
MarcS said:
That clunk means its gonna stop half way up soon. Now I have to pull the window up while turning the key.

So what's the fix for the clunk? If I apply a little pressure to the window from the outside while it's going up, it doesn't clunk. I guess I'm gonna pull off the back panel and check out what's going on in there.
 
Mine works fine. Had the "clunk", but it seems to have healed itself after a couple of months of having to help it along.
 
it'll go down no problem :waytogo: . goin up is a different story some times it will and sometimes it wont. the regulator cable keeps gettin pulled out :doah: oh well i dont use it that much anyway.
 
My motor is real weak and the cable pulled out of the connector to it. I took a cordless drill and hooked it to the cable and now it works real well. Not convinient but functional.
 
Mine has the same problem it will go down but won't even try to go back up.
 
Guys, if the glass is slow to move chances are the rollers are flat on one side and so now they have to slide back and forth with the window moves up or down. The tracks they ride in can and will get wet when it rains due to water running down the glass and past the weather stripping. The tracks will hold water due to the shape and eventually get rusty. As they get rusty they are no longer nice and flat/smooth for the rollers to move over. The rollers snag on the rust and stop spinning, but the force of the motor or manual crank overcome the resistance and begin the process of grinding them flat on the bottom side. Pretty soon the nylon roller wears down to the rivit and you have metal on metal contact, plus the arm that the roller is rivited too is not centered in the track anymore. Between the mis-alingment of the arm to the track and the flat rollers sliding on a rusty track they eventually "freeze up" or stick.

Like I said before in an earlier post, when the regulator sticks due to the rollers, the power motor can overheat, strip the gears or break the cable (manual windows usually break the crank arm). Lubed up with new rollers and clean tracks I can turn the manual crank on mine with one finger. It don't take much to pull the panel off the tailgate to at least look at the condition of the rollers and tracks. It didn't take that long for me to drill off the old rivits and install the new ones with the regulator removed.
 
Occasionally my window won't go down; 'damn safety switch in the gate. Maybe I'll bypass it. In the winter it moves real slow (so don't I :D )

I was planning to switch to a manual window as it was a PITA when camping (gotta store food in the truck: bears).
 
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