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To: hermann@muenster.de, bricklin@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: windows
From: "K M" <symbiotic@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 13:11:22 PDT
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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