http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xva8tdnzkyQ

I think my window motor is about to die. For the people that have had the motors die or had those plastic rollers on the track break, did it make this noise?

If the motor is about to die, is there some type of bearing or bushing that can be changed to breath new life into it? I would like to know before I pull the door panel off.
My thunderbird had both window motors mess up over time and I fixed one with some urethane that I shaped with a Dremel and the other I dropped some nuts into to fix it. Those motors were two gears that were connected to each other with three urethane bushings and when they got to be about 17 years old they were deteriorating pretty bad. On the Thunderbird, the motor would spin the inner gear and it would press on the urethane and the urethane would spin the outer gear.

 

I can't really tell from the video what too look for, are you talking about the initial clack when you first push the button up or down?

My passenger side regulator had a plastic wheel crack in half, I too shaped a little wheel with a dremel, popped it on the regulator and greesed the bajesus out of the track (about a year ago), and so far so good, knock on wood.

 

i have a similar problem on my 98. my driver side is fine but by passenger side is slower and makes a slightly different noise. It dosent bother me enough to look at it.

 

Yes I'm talking about the initial clack. I hit the driver window for comparison. Both have always sounded like the driver window until recently. Did your window roll up crooked when that wheel was busted?

It's not that the noise bothers me, it's knowing that it could take a dump when the window is down that bothers me.

I roll the windows down every time I drive the truck too because I prefer the 2x60 A/C in the summer as long as I'm not in Oklahoma even though my A/C works perfectly fine.