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Re: TR6 Window Channel

To: triumphs@Autox.Team.Net
Subject: Re: TR6 Window Channel
From: Joe Worsley <worsley@ebicom.net>
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 20:23:52 -0800
References: <970217132526_1113907503@emout10.mail.aol.com>
Kdoc111@aol.com wrote:
> 
> During a TRF parts sale, I bought a set of TR6 replacement window channels
> for the side windows of my car.  (They rattle.) My questions are about
> installation.  Has anybody on the list replaced these parts, and if so, how
> difficult is the job?
> 
> Does the window glass have to come out?  Can I leave the weatherstrip in
> place (Did that a few years ago, don't want to re-do.)?  Can I leave the lift
> mechanisms in place?
> 
> Regarding the GL5 I dutifully put in my trunions last winter, a friend says
> to pump in a good quality synthetic grease instead of taking the things apart
> again.  Did we ever resolve the GL5/Trunion/brass issue?  Is this sound
> advice?
> 
> Any answers to this post are sincerely appreciated.
> 
> Kevin D. O'ConnorI happened to pick up a jug of GL5 in Walmart (anyone ever 
>been there?) 
to look at what it said about it.  I had a statement that there were 
corrosion inhibitors to protect bronze components?  I don't remember 
who the manufacturer was.  Is GL5 appropriate to use now? Does all GL5 
have corrosion inhibitors?


Joe Worsley
80 TR8 DHC
Tupelo, MS

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