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Subject:Re: loose sliding window locks
From:Caston/Payne
Date:Thu, 10 Feb 2000 21:19:12 -0500

At 7:14 PM -0700 2/10/2000, BILL wrote:
>Your spring loaded latch has a flat tip screw at the bottom of it. Remove
>this and take off the latch, spring and screw. You will see two screws that
>are probably tight already. Your rubber has shrunk that goes between the two
>pieces that are sandwiched together on the glass. You can get new rubber
>seals from dealer and reassemble. When I tinted my windows that gave it
>enough extra width that it tightened back up.

If your a frugal zealot like me, you could cut a peice of old inner tube to
the shape (stack if necessary). That should work as well.
Later,

Dave C.
Williamsburg, VA
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