truck cap window lifts

[beetgrower]

I don't know where else to go with this; I have a 20 year old A.R.E. pickup topper with non-functioning window lifts. Are these off-the-shelf items I can get at an auto supply store? Are they hard to install?

 

[Woodtroll]

There should be a series of numbers printed on the shocks, often a hyphenated sequence like ABC-12345. Take those numbers, or a photo of the numbers, or one of the shocks, to a parts place, and they should have a match in stock unless it's an odball. If you use those same numbers, you can usually find them on online retailers for half or less of what a parts place charges.

Most of them now have ball studs with a c-clip-type keeper; you use a pick or small screwdriver to pull the clip back from the ball head, then just pull the head off the stud. But you may have one with a through-bolt or some other arrangement, you'll just have to look. None of them are hard, just be sure to prop the lid up securely before you remove them.

Good luck!

 

[beetgrower]

Thanks, I appreciate guidance.

 

[Woodtroll]

You're certainly welcome!

 

[Brown David]

Struts were bad on the last truck cap I had.

I raised the hatch and propped it well, drilled a 1/8" hole through each rod near the cylinder to insert cotter pins. Drilled 1/8" holes in side of stake pocket on both sides of truck to store pins when hatch was down.

Cheap hillbilly fix that worked well for several years.

 

[Stephen Newell]

I don't know where else to go with this; I have a 20 year old A.R.E. pickup topper with non-functioning window lifts. Are these off-the-shelf items I can get at an auto supply store? Are they hard to install?

You might take one of the old ones off to find out what is involved.

 

[Ray,IN]

I don't know where else to go with this; I have a 20 year old A.R.E. pickup topper with non-functioning window lifts. Are these off-the-shelf items I can get at an auto supply store? Are they hard to install?

This will help: https://www.maxumhardware.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=50
That website explains everything.

 

[Don B.]

I'm wanting to retrofit that type of lift to the front outside window shade on the front of my 2003 jayco camper but don't know how to figure out the exact right ones to get. It has a 2 PC slider type deal now that the rivets pulled out of the frame, on. Now it's "go find a stick" and break it off to kinda fit every time I camp
Unlike a truck cap I don't want this to flip all the way up, but want it to still have a little bit of a downward angle when open.