clutchdust
Millionaire Playboy
grease your window tracks. May sound like common sense to most of you that have experience with it, but a fair warning to the rest of you.
Many, many years ago I had my windows out because the regulators (well, driver side anyway) failed. So I figured this would be a good time to service them. Of course, I also thought, "hey, if I put some grease in these tracks, it should make the windows that much easier on the motor." Wasn't entirely a bad plan, worked pretty well for a year or two, and then the windows started to slow down. The passenger side was worse, I think mainly because I didn't raise and lower it as much. So what happens is fine dust and grit bonds with the grease and after a decade, or more, turns into something more resembling grout than grease. Last time I drove the car, it would almost kill power raising or lowering the passenger side window. I pulled it apart to day and CHIPPED off all the grout/grease build up and reinstalled everything dry and just damn if it doesn't work 500 times better. I'm not sure but I think the dry film lubricant would probably do pretty well without attracting too much crap, but for now, dry is good. Maybe I'll tackle some of that other stuff when I actually get down to the task of restoring this car.
Many, many years ago I had my windows out because the regulators (well, driver side anyway) failed. So I figured this would be a good time to service them. Of course, I also thought, "hey, if I put some grease in these tracks, it should make the windows that much easier on the motor." Wasn't entirely a bad plan, worked pretty well for a year or two, and then the windows started to slow down. The passenger side was worse, I think mainly because I didn't raise and lower it as much. So what happens is fine dust and grit bonds with the grease and after a decade, or more, turns into something more resembling grout than grease. Last time I drove the car, it would almost kill power raising or lowering the passenger side window. I pulled it apart to day and CHIPPED off all the grout/grease build up and reinstalled everything dry and just damn if it doesn't work 500 times better. I'm not sure but I think the dry film lubricant would probably do pretty well without attracting too much crap, but for now, dry is good. Maybe I'll tackle some of that other stuff when I actually get down to the task of restoring this car.