Re: Conversion of 1941 hydraulic windows

Posted by Tim Cole On 2010/1/8 20:52:59

Oops, Sorry folks for the long delay in responding to the 6 volt Chrysler conversion question.

A little history: The car had been previously converted to bombay door lifts from a B-52 Stratobomber. They were a disaster.

It just happened that there was a junk 120 and a junk 52 Imperial in the back yard. The Chrysler was sold to the Packard owner.

For the front, I took the motor unit from the Chrysler and drilled out the crank pinion from the 120 regulator. The Chrysler unit was a total bolt in, as was the 120 regulator. And they worked beautifully.

The back windows were a problem because the door glass would not clear the motor. Fortunately, they had a bunch of division regulators from Rollson, Brewster, or somebody, and these were used as remote actuators for the rear door glass.

Finally, the Chrysler did not have five electric windows and I left for fall term while a real old time restorer who worked for Pre-Turnquist Hibernia (Walter - deceased) got something working for the division. I never saw it work.