New '89 4.0, Introduction And Quick Question About Manual Window

[condopresident]

Hey folks, after years and years of driving old Subarus and old Miatas, I picked up two things I've always wanted two weeks ago: an old Jeep and an old pickup. This is Eugenia the Jeep, my new-to-me 1989 4.0 5-speed with 121k.

 

 

 

I've been hunting for a small, fairly simple but still interesting truck for months and two weeks ago I saw her sitting for sale and bought her the next day. Had a few electrical quirks (turn signals not working, but they're fine now), fuel gauge pegged way past full, radio and a/c not working (I'll worry about that later) and a very soft clutch.

 

I bought the old gal with intentions of doing as close to 100% of the work myself. I'm pretty comfortable working on small stuff, changing alternators, fluids, plugs and brakes and things like that, but I want to learn as much as I can and I figured this was a good truck to learn from. There seem to be plenty of resources and I went ahead and picked up an old Haynes manual for $2 until I can spend a little more on a real shop manual. Unfortunately the slave cylinder gave up the ghost a week into my ownership and I wasn't in a position to tackle it, so I brought her to a shop and they fixed her up nice for me. New clutch kit, flywheel, oil pan gasket (rubber), rear main seal and some little odds and ends. But, after spending money on labor that could have been spent on beer and bandaids after doing it myself, I'm vowing to try to keep her out of the shops from here on out.

 

Anyway, sorry to be long winded but I'm glad this forum is here and I'm looking forward to reading up on as much as I can.

 

I do have one minor tech question for now, and it's probably pretty simple. When I bought the truck, I was told not to roll the driver's side manual window down all the way, so I've been leaving it up about three to four inches. Last night I forgot about this and the window dropped into the door. I pulled the door panel to investigate, and it was easy to get it back up (just had to lightly lift the glass while cranking the window up) but for the life of me I couldn't see what was causing the problem. Any suggestions? Tried searching for an answer but mostly found the problem with electric windows.

 

Sorry to be long winded but bear with me, and thanks in advance!

[91Pioneer]

Welcome! You probably need a new window regulator, when I bought my truck I could only get the passenger window a little over half way before it would get stuff and bind up. I actually just replaced the regulator yesterday and it goes down like normal now.

[condopresident]

A-ha! That makes sense. I always assumed window regulators were a power window thing. Just looked one up to see a picture. I'll get on it. The fella who sold me the truck just said something about a "catch missing" that would cause it to drop anywhere below three inches above the door. Thanks!

[91Pioneer]

Here's the old one I took out, bent a bit.

 

[condopresident]

Thanks a lot. I'm going to pop the panel off in a little bit when it cools down outside and have a better look. It was pretty dark when I went in and lifted the window up last night so I'll try and get a better idea of what's happening in there!

[91Pioneer]

Things will be pretty obvious after you get the panel off.