Windiow swiches

[Dave84]

I have window swiches out of a 79 olds they look simular to the ford ones, but only have 3 wire's and the for ones have 5 wires, any ideas how i can make um work?

they are for these door panels, if u havent seen my readers rides

[gadget73]

without seeing the switch logic for the Olds, no idea how to make it work. it might not even be possible. unfortunately my evtm doesn't have the switch setup for the single window switches. I sort of doubt it would work tho. 3 wires means its just a basic on/off/on momentary switch. One wire would be +, and you'd get voltage at one wire or the other depending which way you moved it. The ford window switches have a + and a - feed, and 2 wires out to the motor. It actually switches polarity to the motor. I'm guessing the Olds motor had 2 sets of windings inside it, one for forward, one for reverse. The Ford motors have just a single winding.

[86VickyLX]

I have window swiches out of a 79 olds they look simular to the ford ones, but only have 3 wire's and the for ones have 5 wires, any ideas how i can make um work?

they are for these door panels, if u havent seen my readers rides

I could go to the junkyard and pull the switches for you if they're still there.

[Dave84]

how much do u figure?

[86VickyLX]

Hmm, I don't know. I'll have to see how much the yard wants. Do you want the wiring to go with the switches?

[Dave84]

yea all the wireing also, but find out how much first

[86VickyLX]

ok, I don't know when I'll be going. How much wire do you want? just enough to splice into the existing wires in your car?

[1987cp]

I don't know for sure about the switches, but you probably know that the motors just run by connecting 12 Volts across them in one direction to go up, then in the other direction to go down. It's easy to visualize how to do it with, say, a standard six-pole on/off/on switch from RadioShack ... don't know how your Olds switch is configured, though. If you can put your brain on the job and rig up your own circuit with the switch you've got, you're set.

[Dave84]

I don't know for sure about the switches, but you probably know that the motors just run by connecting 12 Volts across them in one direction to go up, then in the other direction to go down. It's easy to visualize how to do it with, say, a standard six-pole on/off/on switch from RadioShack ... don't know how your Olds switch is configured, though. If you can put your brain on the job and rig up your own circuit with the switch you've got, you're set.

yea i have been thinking hard as to how to do it, i bound to come up with somthing, ill look at it some more tomorow after i put my new cd player in

[86VickyLX]

I believe I am going to the junkyard this weekend so I'll grab the window switches and wires if I can grab the wires. I'll also be on the lookout for some nice clean unpeeling levers for me!