another power window problem
 

I've got an 84 944 and the passenger side power window is stuck up. First off I put the driver's side switch in the driver window slot and it works fine, but when I try put the passenger switch in the driver's window I blow a fuse.
What am I doing wrong?

could be a bad switch...
seeing as how that's the only variable you're changing, that's where my money is..

I have to rotate the passenger switch 180 degrees to plug it in the driver's door... does that make a difference?

do you have the small switches or the big rectangles with circles in them?

big rectangles with circles in them

then (i believe) that's odd (flipping them 180 degrees)

both my switches are identical, and dont need to be flipped around at all if i swapped switches.... have they ever worked?

it's never worked for me.
looks like one of the POs didn't know what the hell he was doing.

http://netfiles.uiuc.edu/wakeman2/www/switch.jpg

pretty messed up... now how do i fix it?

do you say you have to turn the whole switch, wires and all, 180 degrees? or just the switch part that plugs into the harness?

see the part where the wires go into the back of that plug? well a little further down there's a split... then a darker black thing.. pull those two pieces apart at the split...

after that, clarks garage has a great writeup on the power window problems.... i'd check it out.

if you have to turn everything, including the wires, 180 degrees, then I'm thinking there is a loose connection in the back of that plug where the wires go into it somewhere...

the actual switch can only go on one way.. there are 5 pegs that plug into the harness and can only go in one way.

Could be that the PO tried to clean a switch and reassembled it wrong.

the switch was indeed assembled wrong, but i reassembled it and it still doesn't pass the test... for example 1 to 4 and 2 to 3 (as per clark's garage) read less than an ohm when the switch is in a neutral position but when i press open they jump to open. then i checked the wiring in the door and i don't get any power from terminals 4 or 5 to ground...

I've found the contact points in older switches so pitted that they would not clean sufficently (removing material and shaping) to stay in contact as necessary in the neutral position. Had to buy new switches. I'll worry about the switches in twenty years.