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Subject:Re: Crummy Window Cranks!
From:Rob
Date:Mon, 4 Apr 2011 19:31:56 -0700

Go to http://www.weidefamily.net/vanagon/ , click on 'electrical'
then 'power windows'.  Brent tells how to fix them.

Rob
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At  4/4/2011 05:48 PM, John Rodgers wrote:

>>My power window experience has only been with my one 1985 Jeep
>>Wagoneer LTD. This was one of those plush, wide track models with
>>power everything. Electric windows stopped working, but since they
>>didn't get run down all through the Alaska winters, I only
>>discovered they didn't work any more the tirst time in spring that
>>I needed to lower them. Had to take everythign apart, then use
>>various cleaners, lubes, worn-out 600 grit wet/dry sand paper to
>>polish with (Lots of amazing uses for worn out 600 grrit paper).
>>Got it all back together and it worked like a charm. But the lesson
>>was - event he window opperating mechanisms must have preventive
>>maintenance done. It is, after all, machinery, and won't run
>>forever without maintenance.
>
>I look forward to rebuilding the operating mechanisms on my new to
>me '91 Carat recently acquired. Someone already had the door apart,
>so I know it's an issue.
>
>John
>>John Rodgers