Re: {Chrysler 300} window parts 300K

Here is the parts book section for the gearbox. Code 23-41-33, Mechanism. Same part for both sides of front, as well as rears on 4-door hardtops and wagons. Fits back to 1960 but I have seen variations in the mounting bosses for a steel support plate that is used on some of them. Some have two holes, some have three. This only matters if you're using the support plate. Even the ones with the support plate will snap off the gearbox mount. I had one that had a big hose clamp holding the motor to the support plate. I've also enclosed a picture of a 1964 300 4-door hardtop right front door showing the motor and support plate. As well as the disassembled one from the left front door.

On Fri, May 5, 2023 at 11:59 AM 'James Douglas' via Chrysler 300 Club International <chrysler-300-club-international@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi All,

I opened up the passenger door and found another amateur repair job. Not as bad as the driver’s door but still will need a lot of work with a jury rigged mount bypass. No doubt cracked like the other side and many on my other 300K’s over the years.

I sent a note to the usual suspects asking for pricing on a good gear unit, the scissor unit and the motor. What I got was:

Window regulator, $175.00

Gear drive assembly, $275.00

Working motor, $200.00.

Now I know it has been 25 or more years since I was working on 300K’s but over $600 for the window guts? That just seems a lot and we all know the gear boxes cannot be known to be good at the motor mount boss with a magnaflux inspection for cracks and taking it apart to inspect the gears.

At this point I have three options, pay the $600 plus, go out and see what a couple of doors complete may cost, hunt for some NOS parts or…

I may well decide to spend the money and have the gear boxes scanned and machined out of billet aluminum to make that problem go away forever.

If anyone has a gear box for the drivers’ side door and/or the passenger side door ( I still have not confirmed if the gear boxes are left and right specific or not) that is in good condition and wants to sell it send me an email.

James

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