power window wiring

[72cruzr]

I think I am going to need to re-wire all the power window switches in my 72 Centurion convertible. Has anyone attempted this? What are the pitfalls? I found the complete kit on year1.com for $159. As usual, any and all advice is welcome. Thanks in advance.

Perry

[Gum,beest]

Hi Perry
I have found a site where all sorts of small wiring diagrams are posted
http://www.maliburacing.com/wiring_diagrams/

[The German]

Welcome, Perry, to this site here ! You have a very nice car now which I also saw some time ago somewhere in the net admiring the beautiful photos. The green color has a special charme.:xyxthumbs:

Now to your problem :
- What is your problem : do you have no power at the cables ends or are the switches not doing their job ?
- If you can´t measure any power at the cables I first would look if the next connection back on their way to the power source is okay and has power and so on. Otherwise also changing the window wirings will perhaps not bring the wished success.
- If you can measure power than look if you have ground also. It´s nearly the same problem.
- If all this is okay you probably have only corroded swiches. In this case I first would spay some special electic connector oil into the connection holes and into the gaps of the switches and then move them up and down. Every time when I had such a problem I could blow it away with this easy method !

Hope you will find out that it´s only a simple problem which would avoid greater work and save some money !

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Added:
Just now I read the post of John (http://www.buickcenturion.com/forums/showthread.php?1403-New-member)
with some more detailled infos how to do the job. He has a lot of experiences so following these tracks of knowledge hopefully could lead you to an easy solution of your problem.

[BuickLover]

All I found at that link was spam redirects.

[Gum,beest]

Sorry
Just found out that if you follow the link by clicking on the hyperlink you get this :rant:
Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /wiring_diagrams/ on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache/2.2.11 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.11 OpenSSL/0.9.7a Phusion_Passenger/2.2.7 mod_auth_passthrough

But if i follow the link from my own favorites it just works fine
Please try to type it in the explorer bar http://www.maliburacing.com/wiring.html ore use copy paste
Just tried it and it works :xyxthumbs: