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Electric rear window
I have been contemplating running an electric rear window in my 72
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Re: Electric rear window
You can buy it here. I have one in my truck and love it.
http://www.crlaurence.com/ProductPag...1.html?Origin=
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Re: Electric rear window
Check with board vendor WES. I bought a regular slider from him 3 years ago as he is a vendor for CR Laurence. He may be able to get the POWR- Slider. They retail for about $400. It sounds like you want a vertical slider though.
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Re: Electric rear window
Do you mean a rear window that rolls down into the cab?
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Re: Electric rear window
I remember seeing them in some trucks a few years back that had them, I think they were conversions though. The companies that put the aftermarket wheels on and spice up the paint a little and charge 10K more for the truck.
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Re: Electric rear window
Someone (maybe two) has done this on the board. I'll try to find it but you can try a search.
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Re: Electric rear window
I think someone did it using the stuff from a Tundra?
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Re: Electric rear window
there was a mercury from the mid 60's that had a vertical rear sliding window. That might give you some ideas for doing one youself. Dont remember the model of car. Maybe someone knows the car im talking about.
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Re: Electric rear window
Yeah it's a mid-to-late 50's Mercury Monterey with the "Breezway" package. Very cool car, indeed. Now back to the question at hand. If I recall my Pop's mid 70's Buick Vista-Cruiser wagon had a power window in the rear gate....i'm sure there are other vintage "Land Barges" that also had a power window in the rear gate as well.
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Re: Electric rear window
One of the guys who has a shop here at the forum posted pictures of a show truck with a vertical slider. They didn't have any pictures of the guts to show us how it worked.
This thread/question comes up at least once every 4-6 months in this forum, but I have yet to see any real proof or evidence of how this is done, exactly. There are a ton of options - Toyota Land Cruisers have a rear slider in them, and so do a few other truck/SUV type vehicles. You could easily borrow from one.
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Re: Electric rear window
I got this picture a while back off of the forum and saved it for future referance.
He got an electric window regulator out of a 86 Chevy blazer. He narrowed the sash a little, cut out the pinch weld around the back window and welded in a window channel, cut out the back of the cab under the window ( just the inner peice above the gas tank) and added a 1" box to the back for the window to roll down into it, fabricated a custom stand to bolt the regulator to and then used a piece of custom tempered glass cut 3" taller than the factory glass. Thats all I have on it. If any one has more infromation or some good ideas of how to pull this modification off I would like to hear them. It would be nice to have some pictures of the internal workings.
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Re: Electric rear window
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VERY cool. I want to know how to do this. |
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Re: Electric rear window
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Re: Electric rear window
the mechanical part on a toyota tundra sells new for $600. its a sissors action it looks like you get all the guts of it plus the motor for this price, wheres them toyota yards at
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Re: Electric rear window
5 maybe as much as 7years ago on the original show trucks back when stacey used to actually do stuff before he became a pitchman he did a sliding backwindow conversion that came in a kit but still required alot of fabrication// i've al;so known people who have used capricse guts(motor ,downlimit uplimitswitches sissorsassy aand bottom rail) out of a tailgate and fabbed up trhe tracks drain and other stuff// all the ones i've seen take up at least as much room as the original gastank some were even more bulky than that
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Re: Electric rear window
for you people with the small windows you could probably get away with a kit from a honda del sol
they're pretty small and the rear window rolls up and down,. |
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Re: Electric rear window
I have a honda del sol regulator that I'm going to use on my 61; small window. I'll post pics when I do it. Those regulators are cool. All cable driven and very compact, but only ~9" of travel.
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Re: Electric rear window
I built myself a rear back window using the 86 blazer regulator. I have to relocate fuel tank and add a 1" box to the back of the cab. I haven't finished my project yet but the back window works. I had to fabricate a rear bracket to hold the regulator and you can see in the pics. Had to have a piece of custom glass cut also.
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Re: Electric rear window
Thanks guys, Here in australia we have some station wagons that run an electric rear wind so I might just steal it out of one of the. I'm not too bad with the fab so I'll prob fab all new guide rails myself. I was thinking of either getting a new/larger rear screen made or actually closing up the whole and using the origional screen. I will keep you posted with my activities.
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Re: Electric rear window
what about using one out of a 90ish bronco? theyre power and have pretty good travel
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Re: Electric rear window
something like the top half should work, right?
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Re: Electric rear window
toyota 4runners used sliders forever if you can understand the japanese engineering behind them
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Re: Electric rear window
Was having a good look at my body today and I'm also going to remove the drip rail.
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Re: Electric rear window
don't forget to incorporate a rain gutter in there todevert water from rain and washings that seeps past the bottom seal out of the cab before it reaches the carpet. it won;t be hard to do but is very much needed, it's not like a tailgate where you just put weep holes outside the seal
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this mod sounds great!!!!.............i would love to do this to mine.....need morte info !!!!
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