This is a common problem and usually an easy fix. The issue is using a
linear regulator to shove a curved window into an arc -- not grear
designing.
Regulators are available from all the vendors and should cost about
50-60. To get to it, you take the inside panel off and find the
access holes. there are 4 7/16 bolts and a couple of smaller ones
that need to be removed. You will need to get the window in a middle
position, then remove the bolst and the regulator then slips out
through the access hole, leaving the window itself still in the door.
The window comes out the only way that it can, from the slit that
it slides up and down in.
Now you have to figure out what the problem is. Often the regulator
is just worn out. Different vendors have different solutions to the
window issue, Tanner uses a different grove and welds it to the top of
the channel that the rollers of the regulator go through -- a decent
idea but it offsets the window by a little more than an inch and that
causes it to not go down all the way -- not really too much of an
issue in a Bricklin since you can't really rest your arm on the window
opening when driving anyway. Fransen does some kind of a
regulator reinforcement -- apparently he did it to my car (I
didn't want it done but maybe more on that later) and claims that
is should help the window. But I did my own previous to taking my
car to Fransen and have had no problems with the windows since
(I took it to him more as a courtesy to get the boomerang installed in
the door). Hope this helps and if you have any specific questions, I
may be able to remember the answers -- I dealt with the windows more
than a year ago. After the first time, it takes about 15 minutes to
get the regulator out. One last thing, make sure that you lubricate
everything -- all of the places (like the edges) where the window rubs
should be lubed with straight silicone -- the regulator itself with
white grease. Kim
>I have a problem with my windows. They donīt move easy and the one on
>passengerīs side doesnīt come up correctly. I tried to get to the
mechanism
>but couldnīt find a way without destroying the doors. How do I reach
the
>mechanism? I even have an idea to install electrical winders for the
windows
>(as soon as they move easily..)
>
>Peter
>#2041
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