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Subject:Re: Window clunks backward
From:BRENT CHRISTENSEN
Date:Wed, 7 Jun 2000 16:07:13 -0700

Did you know that Ken Wilfey is selling electric window retrofit kits?  I
just saw them on www.vanagain.com the other day in the Accessories section.

Cheers,

Brent Christensen
'89 GL Syncro Westy
Santa Barbara, CA

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM]On Behalf
> Of Andrew Grebneff
> Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 3:39 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Window clunks backward
>
>
> My driver's door (the right one) window has a problem which
> also afflicted
> my 75 Bay.
>
> When wound down it drops backward with a clunk against the back of the
> door. When driving it clunks backward every time I step on
> the gas, then
> moves back forward, ready to annoy me again. Anyone familiar with the
> problem and its cure? A block of rubber glued to the inside
> of the back of
> the door? I want to fix this when I electrify the windows.
>
> With the Bay the problem wasn't there when I bought the vehicle, but
> developed later. On checking I found that the channel ended
> just below the
> window-opening, and I can't for the life of me think of where
> the missing
> bit went. Without it there was nothing to locate the window.
>
>
> Andrew Grebneff
> 165 Evans St, Dunedin, New Zealand
> tel: 64 (3) 473-8863
> fax: 64 (3) 479-7535
> Shell collector
> 69 VW Kombi-Corvair
> 75 VW Kombi (ex Toyota 3.5 V8)
> 84 VW T3 Caravelle GL/SVX
> 85 Mitsubishi Sigma Super Saloon 2.0
> 86 Toyota Corolla DX 1.8 diesel (410000km plus rewound
> 30000+, going strong)
> 89 Toyota Corona Select 2.0 diesel (508000km plus rewound 30000+,going
> strong)
>

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