[FC] Window and door problems

[Ben's Bus]

Dave Palmer of California rebuilds (rebuilt?) these door catch units years
ago. His ads were in the CorvanAntics newsletters, and I saw a rebuilt on at
Daytona. He uses a heavy duty spring and other tweaking to make the doos
open and close properly every time. You might want ot contact him for more
info to see if he is still doing this procedure.

Ben Stiles

----- Original Message -----
From: "TiM M" <mr_tim34 at yahoo.com>
To: "FC list" <corvanatics at corvair.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2005 8:00 PM
Subject: [FC] Window and door problems


>      The metal bottom of that is glued onto the driver
> side door came unglued. The rubber channel that the
> window sits in looks pretty worn as well. Is there a
> replacement for the rubber and should I use silicone
> to glue it back in?
>      The other problem is with the door catch spring,
> it broke. As long as I reset the latching pawl
> manually it will function. Does anybody have a part
> number or a picture of the spring (with dimensions)? I
> looked on Clarks and didn't see it. I went to
> McMAster-Carr, they have them, but as it's broken I
> don't know if it was a 90 a 180 or whatever, I don't
> know how many winding there are either. I can take the
> passenger side apart if I have to, but was hoping to
> not have to do that until I had the replacement
> springs for that side as well.
>      Thanks for any info...
>
> TiM McCann
> '61 Electric Ramside (with a flappy door and a
> rattling window)
>
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