1967 Ford Country Sedan - Magic Tailgate Repair Question

You have to get that panel off; I had a similar problem in an '89 Bronco I used to have, and after I got the panel off (which, admittedly, is easier than in any of the Ford wagons), I was able to unbolt the motor, which allowed the regulator and glass to go up and down. Look down below, on the bottom, see if there are screws there still to be removed, and if you can remove them.

 

Appreciate the help, It's been a real bear to try to mess with. Anyone know of any parts for this 67? More less a Galaxie 500 wagon, floor pans are easy to find but panels and parts are hard to come by other than on ebay

 

I had a '70 cs wagon and had a bit of a go to fix my back window. When I bought it the previous owner said it needed a new rear window motor. Well it needed everything but that damb motor. The window is wired directly to the battery that year and the heavy wire snakes through the inside of the dash after going through a self resetting circuit breaker. The wire shorted out under the dash melting a large portion of the wiring harness and itself all the way back to the battery. The circuit breaker must of failed stuck on at some point of cycling off and on, to melt everything. The dash switch was fried and fell apart when I tried to look at it. The feed wire to the back from the switch had been spliced at some point with a teeny speaker wire, it was a half ass failed attempt to fix something (?) the wire through the door jam was broken and the motor gear was toast. It was all easily fixed on the cheap even the gear I was able to epoxy. And that motor is still probably going strong today.

 

Brand new member here. I recently purchased a beautiful 1967 Ford Country Sedan Wagon and I am starting to do some repairs on a few things that don't work. One of the items is my 'magic tailgate'. If I use my round head key at the rear window it goes up and down. It's a little slow in one spot but I assume that may be a lubrication issue.

My problem is at the dash. The dash switch will lower the tailgate window, but not raise it back up. Any suggestion on where to start trouble shooting there? Switch possibly bad?

And the second part is the 'magic' part of my tailgate is not operating. I can open the tailgate like a pickup truck tailgate but the handle to open it like a car door does not turn - at least easily. I don't want to force it in any way and figure that may be something that can be looked into by removing the inner panel and looking around.

 

First thing you need to do is get a shop manual for your wagon. eBay and rock auto is your cheapest sources.

It's need a while since I worked on my country squire 1970 but as you've read above it had multiple problems. I think ther is a hot wire that feeds the door key lock and two wires that feed from the dash switch. Your going to need to check for continuity to the motor from the switch. But the foirst place I'd check is the wires that's run through the rear door. They break from bending as the door is used. Good luck and keep us posted.

 

Thank you Thirsty Islander! I did just that and ordered the shop manual and several other manuals off eBay as soon as I bought the car. It does help to have them and they were a huge help when I was working on the front suspension and brakes.
And I will definitely keep this up to date on what I find!