Help with 4KS
Kneale Brownson
knotnook at traverse.com
Sun Sep 17 13:54:54 EDT 2000
No A/C info here, but the window behavior probably is linked to bad wires
in the door jams, particularly the driver door. Push back the rubber cover
on the wiring and you'll probably see copper winking through the cracked
and broken insulation.
At 11:22 AM 09/17/2000 -0400, B1BIKER at aol.com wrote:
>I recently purchased a 1984 4KS and find 2 problems that I can't figure out.
>1. A/C doesn't cool -- The compressor runs when the a/c switch is engaged, no
>bubbles observed in the sight glass on the receiver/drier, all vacuum system
>controls seem to be working properly but no cold air. During testing I
>observed that the compressor kept running even with the temperature selector
>set to the highest setting (all the way to the right)
>
>2. Power Windows -- these worked find when the car was purchased. Yesterday
>morning my wife drove the car, upon returning she reported that the windows
>didn't work. I went to check and found that they worked fine-for a brief
>while 2 cycles on the drivers side one on the passenger side and one down
>stroke on the drivers rear then they went completely dead. Later in the day I
>drove the car again and found that the windows worked when I first started
>the car but later they were again dead. This repaeated itself on 2 more
>occassions. My assumption is that this is caused by a bad relay, however my
>Bentley only goes through 83 and has verty porr data about the location of
>the relays for the windows.
>
>Any help that the list can provide for either of these problems will be
>greatly appreciated.
>
>Gary Meier
>80 5KS, 83 CGT, 84 4KS, 88 5KSQ
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