The capacity windows on the Dodge Dakota subsume multiple components, even conforming other vehicles. This includes the glass, the window regulator, the bound channel and the wiring connecting the regulator to the switches. You may desideratum to alternate any one of these to repair the window on your Dakota. Not all models of the Dakota compass efficacy windows, and the fashion to repair one can vary depending on the vehicle's mould year.
Instructions
Removal
1. Disconnect the Dakota's battery, loosening the cable clamp seed on the denial (melanoid) cable and removing the cable from the battery terminal.
2. Pry gone the window charge switch panel with a trim stick; on the Dakota this is normally placed diagonally above the door's inner pull handgrip. Disconnect the electrical connector, production undeniable the window is all the course down.
3. Connect the power switch plate to its electrical connector and reinstall it on the door trim panel.14. Reconnect the negative battery cable.
Unscrew the trim panel's mounting screws -- cast for them along the top and backside edges and inside the handles -- and then lift the panel off its clips and pull it off the door.
5. Peel gone the plastic baptize shield that blocks access to the window and other in-door components. Fabricate definite you don't tear the plastic information.
6. Disconnect and remove the window's vertical gallop channel, removing its two bolts with your wrench.
7. Remove the nuts connecting the window glass to the regulator at the backside with your wrench and slide the glass up and outside of the door terminated the slot. Application caution and wear gloves whether the glass is cracked or broken.
8. Unplug the regulator's electrical connector and remove the regulator's bolts to remove the regulator terminated the door's access gap. Remove and moderate the wiring from the door provided it needs replacing.
Installation
9. Contain the replacement regulator into the door complete the access hole and bolt it in deposit with your wrench. Connect the electrical connector.
10. Slide the glass -- virgin or replacement -- into the door and connect it to the regulator using the equivalent nuts as before.
11. Install either the debilitated jog channel or its replacement -- making sure it engages with the window glass -- and bolt it into place.
12. Reconnect the trim panel with its clips and then the screws. Reinstall the weatherstripping to the door slot; install new strips if the old ones were worn out and cracked.
13. Pull away the weatherstrip along the upper window slot. This may be in two pieces; pry up the inner strip's rear cusp and slide it toward the rear to remove that strip.4.
