1935 pickup side window mechanism
 

Are the side window mechanisms interchangeable? Drivers side passenger side?

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Nope. Each is different side to side, even between same sides on different models of the same years. Regulators are not cheap, so examine closely to determine if repairable. Gear teeth can be welded back and filed down to work properly.

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Here's what left and right regulators look like!!!!

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thanks for the great pics. I assume left side is drivers side?

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In the USA and a lot of the rest of the world, yeah. When referring to a specific side of a car, using "left" and "right" is unambiguous. "Drivers" and "passengers" are confusing since the Brits and their ilk have chosen to drive on the wrong side of the road.:rolleyes:

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Slightly off topic, but the glass lift channels for each mechanism are also "handed" and I'm finding they are very difficult to find. I'm still looking for a 36 Pickup RH (passenger side) lift channel if anyone has a source that isn't out of stock.

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Regardless of where the car resides, the left or right side of the car is ALWAYS determined by sitting in the car and looking forward.
If the car you are sitting in has the steering wheel on the left, then yes, the left is the driver's side.

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Mike,

Agree with you fully - simplest and best explanation.

But then there is this one....

:DKen

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But Ken, are those suicide doors on the front or the back of that '57?

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Yes.

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They're ALL suicide doors on a car like that!:D

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And to add further, left side is always numbered an odd number in the basic part number in the Ford Parts Numbering system. And yes they determined as Kube says, you are sitting in the car facing the front...


I often wondered 'how' in Great Britain or Australia, they hand-signalled a left hand turn from the right hand side of the car...they must have had one heck of a long arm !

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One exception to the rule of left side being even numbers and right side is odd numbers are the 6049 (RH) and 6050 (LH) heads.
The head for a four cylinder engine is 6050 and the gasket is 6051 so maybe someone got the idea that it would be better to have consecutive numbers for heads and decided 6049 was logical. I don't know how someone decided which was LH and RH, but it's one exception to the rule.

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Had a lady inspector in the car factory. If she was looking at the front the left was right. From the rear right was right. Hard to repair with her.