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Subject:Re: My window won't stay fixed (fwd)
Date:Mon, 10 Jul 1995 15:27:47 +0600

>>From Stuart Hutton:
>> The window on the driver's side won't stay fixed.  It is as simple as that.
>> So far, I have taken my door apart 4 times in 3 days to fix the thing, and
>> pretty soon, it comes apart again.  Has anyone else had this particular
>> frustration?  How have you fixed it?  I am considering installing metal
>> plates over a small square nylon guide which exist in these things
>
>Dr. Hutton...
>
> This is real freaky...My Van had blow-by...yours did. My diesel blew
>up..yours did. My timing belt lost teeth, yours did. My window falls
>down, yours does...
>
> This was the *exact* thing I wrote about this a.m.  I put out a plea
>for a replacement nylon piece for my passenger side window. Now *you* 
>need one for the driver's side....(oh, by the way, thats the problem...)
>
> Keep the window rolled up....
>
>Ok vanagon@lenti gang, anybody *else* have this problem? 
>
Well, my 71 drivers side window broke the first day that I got it.  The 
little plate broke off the u shaped channel and the window fell all the way 
down into the door.  I welded it.  Thats all it took.  I don't think that 
our problems are related.

CBridge@vt.edu
Chris Bridge
71' camper