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[Gizzum]

Hey Guys n Gals.

My brother in law has recently broken a vectra and asked me if i wanted any bits off. The term " Yeah!" was used and off i went to bristol for the weekend with a boot load of tools. I knicked lots of stuff but most interesting item was the electric windows and switches.

I thought it would be a long drawn out process of butchering the new setup to work in the mini and so I left it for a few months til I had some time. Last weekend I finally got of my arse and started. It only took bout an hour and a half or so to get functioning electric windows. So here goes!........

[biggav]

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[bert998]

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snap!!

[Gizzum]

Here are the window mechanisms I got off the vectra



And the current state of my doors!!!



And yes, they are like that ALL the time!!!

[biggav]

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did ya get very far.................

[Gizzum]

Took the winding mechanism out of the mini and had a damn good head scratching, then decided to see if the handle cog was similar to the cog on the motor.

So after some work with the battery dremel (One HELL of an investment by the way!!)

Before...



5 Mins after...



Closer inspection of the winding gear on the winding mechanism

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and?

very intereted in this....

[Gizzum]

Took the motor off the vectra winding mech and then compared it to the back of the handle mech



Then I got bored and decided to see how the cog fitted into the motor



Close up of the drive cog from the motor

[Gizzum]

Righty then... I thought, bit more head scratching (can you see where I am going with this yet?)


Drilled a 8mm hole through where the shaft of the drive gear of the handle drive was!

through this bit



This is to take the bigger drive shaft of the motor drivey bit (the bit with the cog on )

Drilled holes to secure the motor to the winding. Stuck the motor on, took it off again and then redrilled the holes in the right place!.. And then screwed it down.



and the other side

Edited by Gizzum, 09 February 2007 - 08:44 PM.

[Gizzum]

Next, came the wiring..

Now i didn't have a vectra bible to hand so another bit of headscratching!!!!



Having winged a few electrical jobs in my time, and not yet started a fire.... yet!

I came up with this. Red wire - Live (easy!)
Brown Wire - earth (EASIER!)
Brown / Black - ?????
Blue/ Red - ?????
Grey / Green - ?????

the other three have to be the control and luckily i thought to pinch the switches from the vectra as well. 10 mins with the fluke revealed that the brown/black was a common and the other to had to be connected up to this and that controlled up and down

The TEST!!!!

[Gizzum]

OOOOHHHH happy days!! me it works. A little juddery, but i put that down to the drive gear on the motor being slightly bigger than the handle drive.

The best thing about this is that once back on the car



All that is needed is a live to the motor. The control switches can be mounted to the door cards (once built!! )

So that is It guys and girls...

Hope you like

I will put up the pictures of the door cards when I have built them (probably bout another 3 months!!)

Jez

[Jammy]

Oooooh, great mod! Is there much of a weight difference between the motor you took off, and the Vectra one?

[Gizzum]

come on Jammy! I hope that was a windup? excuse the pun, windup!

The new motor was slightly heavier than the old motor as the old motor was of the hand driven type! did you read the post? god, admin's these days!

Edited by Gizzum, 10 February 2007 - 12:49 PM.

[bert998]

Great work! how juddery is it? any chance of a video?

[Jammy]

Ha ha! Hadn't been in work long before I posted that, or I wasn't wide awake at least! Whats that motor looking thing on the 2nd pic down?