[FC] Window and door problems

[Ron]

Used latches were only two or three dollars at the GWFBTSM at Palm Springs. 
I've found that the springs are not pre-wound enough and a balky latch can 
be improved by giving the spring a stronger pre-wind by manually "bending" 
it a little tighter.  No help for a broken spring, of course.
RonH

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ben's Bus" <bensbus at paonline.com>
To: "The Corvanatics list" <corvanatics at corvair.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2005 5:38 AM
Subject: Re: [FC] Window and door problems


> 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>
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> 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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