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      06-22-2022, 08:35 PM   #1
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E85 window regulator removal?

Hey y'all. Yesterday my passenger window ground down to a halt and won't come up. I took the door off and where the T40 bolt should be accessible, it isn't. It seems the whole support cable has fallen off the pulley and thus the whole thing came down. Here are a few pics. You can see the large bolt hole in the top right and where it is actually on the bottom of the door.

Any advice on how to get that window up to get that bolt out? Or how the raise the window without breaking it?
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      06-26-2022, 03:54 PM   #2
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So in the end, I used a drillbit and dremel to cut a whole big enough for a torx bit to get thru and unbolted the glass from the regulator frame. Then it could be pulled up and the regulator came out from the normal spot it would come out of.

Manipulated the wire and got it back on the tracks and now remounting it in the frame today.
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      06-29-2022, 09:48 AM   #3
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Nice, definitely better than breaking that glass.
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