Chinook RV

I should ask it on a Ford forum, but let me try here first.

I was replacing the window regulator and remembered that the driver side speaker only have a humming noise. No voice, no music. So I swap it with the passenger side speaker, and found that both speakers work on the passenger side. So it must be either the radio, or wiring. Do I pull out the radio, and try to see if the radio is sending out the right signal? There are other speakers in the coach, and I have not try to use them. Anything that I should try first? Not that urgent, but it will be nice to get it working again.

Might as well while youre in there, yank the radio and test continuity of the speaker wires with an ohm meter.

I personally don't like the cheap stereo and door speakers in the cab of my 1998. I have wonderful speakers in the back in the coach and a new stereo cd player player mounted in the overhead . I simply made sure I bought a stereo with a REMOTE and I MUCH prefer my music coming from behind me than from those 2 muffled door speakers. Just what I did and something for you to think about.

chin_k wrote: August 3rd, 2020, 7:51 pm ....I was replacing the window regulator ....

chin_k, any pics of this process? My driver side window won't go up. Motor still grinds on, but no movement. I purchased a complete motor/track assembly and still searching for a removal/installation procedure. I also bought a pair of good Kenwood speakers to replace the in-door OEMs.
Any info would be appreciated.
thx

HoosierB wrote: August 7th, 2020, 3:03 pm

chin_k wrote: August 3rd, 2020, 7:51 pm ....I was replacing the window regulator ....

chin_k, any pics of this process? My driver side window won't go up. Motor still grinds on, but no movement. I purchased a complete motor/track assembly and still searching for a removal/installation procedure. I also bought a pair of good Kenwood speakers to replace the in-door OEMs.
Any info would be appreciated.
thx

Here is a pretty good YouTube video of the process. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImQ7zByM2yg

HoosierB, I think Clay have a good video link there.

What happened to my regulator is that there is a plastic piece that hold the regulator cable to the carriage that move the window up and down the metal rail. Due to age, the plastic piece broke, and the cable came off so it can't pull the window up. If you have not moving the motor too much, you maybe able to fixed this by adding a metal piece to replace the plastic piece, but if you try to move the window up and down, the cable cassette and/or the cable maybe ruined, and you will need a new regulator. A non-OEM chinese regulator is about $35.

Anyway, the most difficult thing is to drill out the rivets if the regulator is original. You can use the center punch to push out the pin first and skip drilling the soft aluminum. The window is attached to a tap, so the rivet are not directly on the glass. But I would put something behind the carriage to give it more structural support before going at it with a center punch. I tried, but the pin did not come out, so I did an extra step.
Anyway, what I did was to drill out the rivets partially using a CRL "rivet eater", then use a center punch to push out the steel center (it was easy three taps, and it came out easily), then finish it off with a 1/4 drill bit.

https://www.harborfreight.com/spring-lo ... h-621.html

I replaced all the rivets (7 total) with 1/2" long 1/4-20 bolts instead of getting rivets and install them back. I use Loc-tite on the thread.

Being a bit OCD, I put paper behind the panel to catch all the shaving and loose pieces. I don't want to carry extra weight on my RV to cause my MPG to go down

chin_k and Clay ...
Excellent info and reference! The video link was a big help as well.
Thanks to you both!

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