Yea! I have been totally worried about why the rear window on my "new" (old and beat) 87 4Runner wouldn't go up/down. Tonight I got the FSM out and started checking connections and wouldn't you know it the switch (center console) wasn't working right. The fix was to wire the center pin and one of the outer pins together with a butt connector. This works great and now the window goes up and down as nice as can be.

It's nice when something works (especially electrical). Hopefully this will help someone else that is having rear window problems.

Now that I have my new engine and my window working it's time to pop the top off and do the entire inside with bedliner. Then it will be 5.29 gears, LokRites, 34" tires, a long travel front end, long travel rear end, prerunner bumpers, cage, etc etc.

Too much fun

Joa

Pretty common for the console switch to go bad or be dirty--lotsa coffee and slurpies get dumped there in almost 20 years. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/notooth.gif" alt="" />

At least now the rear window switch is on the console in the later rigs.

I have to clean mine out on a regular basis... Too many years of crap falling in the switch has created a bit of a corrosion problem on the contacts.

Usually one direction goes out first (up), with the other one soon to follow. I just had to clean it out again in a parking lot last week.

When I had dual cases installed, those switches had no place to live in the center console:



So I just extended the wires and moved them to the dash where they should have been all along. Rear window switch besdie the steering wheel (I guess where a clutch cancel switch would go if the '85 had one) and the wiper switch above the radio.