The last couple times I drove my 97 ZJ to work, I rolled my window down to badge in past security, and it wouldn't roll back up. Then at the end of the day when I headed home, it rolled up fine.
The last couple times I drove my 97 ZJ to work, I rolled my window down to badge in past security, and it wouldn't roll back up. Then at the end of the day when I headed home, it rolled up fine.
I don't think that's a terribly common one. If it was acting like the it just wasn't getting power to the window motor, I'd inspect the wiring bundles that go to the doors for any damage.
Could be that the motor is worn out and overheated, or (more scary) you have bad wiring that increased amperage in the circuit, over heating the motor. I'm going with Tired Motor
Try rolling down 1/2 or 3/4 way and then try to roll up. If it doesn’t, try to roll it the rest of the way down. Might tell you if you’re getting juice to the switch
Tired motor or sticking in the track.
Thanks everybody, I'll pull the door card and see what I find.
I have a friend that has one, his is the passenger window. Rolls down and won't go back up. He just quit using it.
On old chryslers the power windows are on a circuit breaker. Electric motors are weird because they pull more amps the slower they spin. So, you get a little bit of a E36 M3ty connection across the commutator of the motor, and it doesn't matter on the way down because you have gravity assist. Then on the way up it goes slow and pops the breaker. Won't do anything for just long enough for you to walk away from it, then it clicks back in and you have power. If you can grab the top of the window with your hand you can almost certainly help it go up.
Window motors pretty much only go bad one way which is crappy connection from the brushes to the commutator. You can take it apart and if the brushes aren't totally worn out you can just sandpaper the commutator and put it back together for another year or two.
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