1996-00 Honda Civic Sedan Front Driver Side Power Power Window Motor & Regulator Assembly TRQ WRA51124

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In this video, we're going to show you how to replace a front window regulator on this 1998 Honda Civic. It's the same process on these Civics from '96 to 2000 and we show you on the driver's side, but the passenger side is the same procedure. The items you'll need for this are a new window regulator from 1AAuto.com, flat blade screwdriver, Phillips screwdriver, and a 10mm socket and ratchet.

Start off by removing this Phillips screw behind the door handle. Now, pull your door handle back and out and right here is your door handle rod. Just push this clip off of it and lift the rod up and out. Now, on this harness there's a tab underneath it, just push it in and disconnect it and remove this triangular panel on top of your door panel. Pull firmly on this panel and it'll pop right off. Now you want to remove this Phillips screw right here, as well as this Phillips screw right here. We'll just fast forward as Don does this. Now, underneath the switch pack, you'll see these two harnesses, you want to just disconnect them. They each have a tab that you just have to push in on and they pull right out. Now using a flat blade screwdriver pry off your speaker cover. In these holes here you'll see there are three Phillips screws. Just go ahead and remove each of those. Now pull out along the edges of your door panel to release the clips and then lift the door panel up and off the door. Down by your speaker, you'll see this harness. Just push in on the two tabs on the sides and it'll pull right out. We don't have one, but you most likely have a water shield. You just want to go ahead and remove that carefully.

Now, two things can happen when your window regulator breaks, either the window can be stuck up or it can be stuck anywhere else. In this case we're going to show you what you do when it's stuck anywhere else and then we'll show you what to do if it's stuck up. Now, disconnect the harness by pushing on the tab and pulling it out. Then pull that harness from the door. Next, you want to loosen these two 10 millimeter bolts and then remove this one. Now remove these four bolts right here. Now, you want to push the stud at the top of your window motor out and then lift up on the window motor so you can unhook those two lower bolts.Then you can move your window up and down and you want it so you can see these two bolts through these two holes. For those 10 millimeter bolts, just go ahead and remove them. Once you do that, you can pull your window up and out. Now, you can just pull your regulator right out of there.

If your window's stuck up you want to start off by removing these two bolts right here that hold the window into the regulator. That'll make it so you can take the window up into place and after you've done that you want to remove these four bolts right here and remove these three right here. We'll just fast forward as Don removes all of those. You can see we have a helper to hold the window in place. If you don't have a helper just use some blue painter's tape and tape the window up. If you do have a helper hold it in place and then pull the window out. As you can see, when you take the bolts out, the regulator comes out and then you can pull your window out.

The old regulator is on the left; the new one from 1A Auto is on the right. You can see they're identical and they'll fit exactly the same. You want to replace two of the nuts on your window motor, so you can hang it back into place, if you've removed those. You want to replace one bolt at the top of your regulator. Feed the regulator and motor into the door and hang those into the appropriate spots. Pull your power motor harness through the door and push those clips back into the door and reconnect the harness. Now just tighten up and replace all of those nuts and bolts. If you've removed your window you're going to feed it back in at this point. Feed the front end first and then the rear make sure they get into the tracks correctly. Slide it up and down by hand make sure it's working freely. If you just taped your window up then remove the tape and slide the window down to the regulator. As you can see, right here, it's perfectly lined up. Just put in those two 10 millimeter bolts and you want them tight, but not too tight.

Now, to reinstall your door panel, you first just reconnect that speaker harness. Then, you want to just make sure your harness is run through that door there. Feed your lock through the door panel. Set it back down into the window sill and then hit around the door panel to reactivate those clips. Reinsert and tighten up those three Phillip screws around the speaker. Replace the two Phillip screws under your pull handle. Now put the door rod back into the door handle and re-clip it and then plug your harness back into place. Push your door handle back in and slide it back. Replace that Phillips screw. Reconnect your switch pack harnesses and then put the speaker panel, your door pull panel, and that triangular panel back into place and then you're all set.

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