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What Is This?

01/18/2015 11:47 AM

What is its function? A normal application would use 4 of them per vehicle.The round object, top left is 7/8" diameter.
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01/18/2015 11:51 AM

Depends upon the make of the car but it looks like the actuator that moves the door locking button up and down. It's too small to be the window motor.

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01/18/2015 12:55 PM

Would that not more than likely be a solenoid for the lock buttons?

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01/18/2015 11:59 AM

Air pressure monitor....?

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01/18/2015 1:18 PM

One post shy of 10,000

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01/18/2015 12:03 PM

mirror adjusters?

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01/18/2015 1:09 PM

I'll go for that. External mirror tilt and swivel adjuster motors. Motor size dictates it's either that or beam height adjusters. But since hint is about four... S.M.

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01/18/2015 12:49 PM

Probably the engine from a Cavalier.

Did you find it lying dead on the road?
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01/19/2015 1:17 PM

if that is the engine from a Cavalier found dead at the side of the road, then what is this also found dead at the side of the road?

Cavalier nowhere to be found.

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01/19/2015 2:04 PM

Looks like the engine from our high school bus.
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01/18/2015 1:07 PM

Your hearing aid?

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01/18/2015 1:45 PM

No. THESE are my hearing aids.

North of 60 got it right. Mirror adjuster motors, two per mirror. I had to replace one of my mirrors, so I dissected the corpse.

BTW, I didn't find any bundles of cash when I took off the door panel, but the job went surprisingly quickly and easily.

An 18V battery really makes this baby scream.

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01/18/2015 2:30 PM

"An 18V battery really makes this baby scream. "

Now stop that!!!

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01/18/2015 2:32 PM

Number 10,000. Congrats.

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01/18/2015 2:58 PM

Wooohooo tnks...

Must be cold up North....

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01/18/2015 3:11 PM

This week has been cold. Has been low -30s all week. Last night... it was -40 and -55 with the windchill. Deg C by the way...

We leave her the 5th of March for our annual "bake on the beach", 3 full weeks on the beach in the DR, a full month out of town.

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01/18/2015 1:36 PM

Windows actuators
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Re: What is this?

01/18/2015 1:52 PM

I'm in with the "Window Actuator."

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01/18/2015 1:58 PM

North of 60 got it right. Mirror adjuster motors, two per mirror. I had to replace one of my mirrors, so I dissected the corpse.
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01/18/2015 3:55 PM

What this picture shows was one of my nightmares in a previous job. Moulding those gears and housings to survive the temperature extremes was a real challenge.

By the way, that motor was made 20 March 1999.

You might note the other motor probably has a green worm drive that is opposite hand to the one shown depending on model and vehicle make (Blue Oval or GM??)

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01/18/2015 5:03 PM

Nope, both black. Ford.
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01/19/2015 7:53 AM

Seat adjustment motor

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01/19/2015 4:14 PM

If you're asking me, you're in trouble.

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01/19/2015 4:28 PM

Nope, it was a question posed to the collective intellect of the forum.
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01/21/2015 6:02 PM

Dies ist Verwechslungsgefahr der Spannrollen, nicht?

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02/01/2015 8:10 AM

Was haben Sie damit gemeint ?
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02/02/2015 8:42 AM

Ich weis nicht!

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02/02/2015 10:21 AM

Dass habe ich vermutet !
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02/02/2015 2:49 PM

This is a danger of mistake of the idlers? What the heck, I thought I had something figured out there for a minute - oh wait - squirrel, squirrel, squirrel!

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02/02/2015 3:03 PM

Ich kann, leider, ihr texanisches Dialekt nicht verstehen. Bitte Übersetzen Sie den Satz.
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02/02/2015 3:31 PM

Dies ist Verwechslungsgefahr der Spannrollen, nicht? odor dies ist verwechslungsgefahr der spannrollen, ja?

My Texas dialect is just good for me, certainly not for a good German. Ich sphricht Deutsch gut nein. Ich cann nicht ubersetzen der Satz. Hande Ho!

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