hi just picked up a 78 camaro LT 305

wondering if anyone can help me get the windows down, theres no ac in the car and previous owner said the switch went out, i cant locate a switch right now, is there anyway to manually put the windows down? take it off track? anything? thanks all

 

About the only way you are going to get the window down is to is to remove the door panel. This will give you access to the window mechanisms. You may be able to put power to the motor and bring the window down, or you could probably dsiconnect it and push it out from the top. It would be much easier to get a replacement switch.

 

thanks for your help, i actually ended up taking off the panel, ran an aux hot to the window motor and it worked, now time to find out why the switch doesnt work

 

The switches are pretty easy to jump, so next time you can try that. First use a test light to determine if the switch has power on the common. Just test from each of the wires to ground until you get one to light. That will be your common. If it has power, then you can jumper at the switch from that wire to either of the other two wires and drive the window up or down.
If there is no common hot, then you've got a problem ahead of the switch and need to locate the fuse to see what's up there.

 

i was looking at the switch and there is no power common, pink wire is dead, fuses check out ok, now i got to trace the wire and see where it leads me, thanks for your help, loving the car, but now have to fix the problems,

my windows wipers are not working either, i can here noise when using the switch but nothing, if you have any info on that, that would be great thanks

 

The common hot goes to a splitter under the dash, then to both window switches. Start at the door hinge area and trace that pink wire where it comes into the dash area. Eventually it will lead to the splitter where both sides join. I found one of those bad on my friend's '73 Chevy truck and replaced it. Everything worked great after that.
Turn the wipers on and put your hand on the motor. You should be able to feel if the motor is running. If it is then you'll have to pull the motor and check the linkage. Might be it's fallen off inside.