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Just as a follow up. This week the nut worked its way of the end of the cable and my window came falling down. I still believe this is a more effective way of fixing the window regulator that just replacing the entire thing but you would need to find a better way to attach a stopper to the end of the cable. As a side note, I've tried melting lead onto the end but the cable pulled off of the lead with the weight of the window on it. I've resorted to pulling a regulator assembly off the passenger side of a junkyard celica with crank windows and resourced the cables to fix my driver side power window.

So i just finished up putting it all back together. Yes you can replace just the cable. After removing the regulator/motor assembly from the car, i took the silver cover off the motor and popped out the pulley inside. After unwinding the cable and cutting off the bad half, I cleaned and re-greased all moving parts and the cable itself. For the new cable, I used a hood latch cable from a Volvo. I filed down the lead ball on one end of the cable to get it square off, so that I could fit it in the motor. I thread the new cable through the intermediate pieces and on the other end, I took a small nut and used a vice to crimp it on the cable. Wound it back around the pulley and stuck it back into the motor. After reassembling it all, worked great. I highly recommend this to anyone with a similar problem as it saves a bundle of money.

Well i've decided to make an attempt at fixing it with replacing everything. I pulled the entire motor/regulator assembly out of the door tonigh and plan to visit home depot tomorrow to get some cable. If this works, I'll let you all know how it goes.

So over this past weekend, after going out for a drive and coming back home my driver side window made a crunching type noise going up. After taking the door panel off, i realized that the cable that raises and lowers the window is starting to fray and is jamming the power window motor. Has anybody had any luck fixing this aside from replacing the entire motor/regulator assembly? I really dont want to spend 100 bucks just because a cable is fraying.

Do you have to wind deflector from the sunroof by any chance?

I still am not sure what this manual is but I put a link to it in another post

http://www.6gc.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=68784

It states 17 ft/lbs for valve cover and 13 for the plugs. Any other info you may need should be in that manual.

So in my attempts to learn as much as I can about my second 6th gen (this one is a GT, my last was an ST) I came across an absolutely great manual on the 5sfe. I don't know what this came out of or if it has been posted on here before but I thought I would post it up just in case.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/9571013/Toyota-5sfe-engine

Yeah the center console should be rather easy to find at a junkyard but good luck getting one without a warped top. Every 6th gen i've seen has wrinkles in it caused by the sun (i'm guessing). Its rather easy to cover with a new piece of leather or some other similar material. I know i've seen posts about doing it before but cant find a link to them right now. Just search around a bit.

I was thinking of going with something like the JL Audio ZR800-CW (http://www.crutchfield.com/p_136ZR800CW/JL-Audio-ZR800-CW.html?tp=111) for the 8" but what is possible to replace the tweeters and mids? There aren't many component options available for a 4" mid. Is it possible to put 5 1/4s in there with some modification or is there just no way to do this? Anybody with any good ideas?

So i recently just purchased my second 6th gen and this one came with the 8 speaker premium sound system. Many of the speakers in it are currently blown and I am looking to replace them all around (including the head unit and amps in time). My question is, what have people tried with components in these audio systems that have worked? I know the standard mid sub is 8" and from what I've read the other mids are 4" which leaves very little in terms of options for component speaker setups. Thanks for the help.