99 cherokee sport drivers window

[rojasrich81]

I have the same exact problem, cheap American engineering? I found a window regulator on ebay for about $40.

[Star_Base]

I have a 1999 Jeep, and the hard white plastic that rides up and down in the metal channel of the tube [about 3/4 inch in length and 3/32 in width] fractured on both regulators. My repair is as follows. 1. Remove the entire regulator from the car. 2. Remove the 3 nuts retaining the electric motor, remove motor. 3. At the top of the metal tube bend the stop out of the way and push the cable out of the tube so you have 6 – 9 inches sticking out. 4. Place cable in a vise leaving the old plastic potion stick out [the part that breaks off that was attached to the part that bolts to your window glass] and cut it off with a saws all. 5. The drive cable is made up of a speedometer like cable wrapped in a felt like material then wrapped with very hard steel wire with a gap between the winds that the electric motor drive gear pushes on. Take the saws all [A reciprocating hack saw] and remove about an inch of the speedometer cable [core of the hole] and felt from the end leaving the outside cable winds. 6. Take the part that attaches to the window glass and line it up to the channel / cable [note you may want to do this first] 7. Take a heavy gauge square wire staple [the type you use a hammer on to retain you romex wire inside your house] and place it on the portion that broke so you know were you are going to drill holes. [ It may help you understand by winding the stable into the very hard steel wire with a gap between the winds that the electric motor drive gear pushes on, where you removed the core, so the points stick out trapping the stable inside the very hard steel wire with a gap between the winds so the staple replaces the core you removed . 8. You are going to drill thru the plastic and metal of the part that attaches to the window glass. 9. Now line up the wholes with the staple and push the part that attaches to the glass to the cable [make sure you have it on in the correct way and not 180 out]. 10. Slide the cable and assembled components back into the metal tube with the channel and you will see the staple now replaces the plastic 3/4 inch in length and 3/32 in width that fractured. Make sure things fit tightly and bend the stable ends over very tightly using a ball peen hammer. 11. Assemble the electric motor and don’t forget to bend back the stop at the end of the metal tube. Reassemble into car. I have done this to both sides and have only had to redo the passenger side. Hope this helps.