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Re: 1 Victor 2 Window Motors

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Originally Posted by EricVanWyk View Post
Would removing the anti-backdrive pins help?
Based on my very limited experience, that wouln't help much, if any. They seem designed to make it truly impossible to backdrive the window motor when they are present, but the worm-gear stage is still almost impossible to backdrive with them removed.

If one window motor isn't quite powerful enough for the job, you might be able to get away with using a friction-slip coupling to get enough assistance from a second motor to make things work while avoiding the potential of breaking things when the motors don't quite move in perfect unison.