[urq] . Re: 83 urq smogged! Now What?

[Mike Sylvester]

My switches were not 'dirty' in the sense that a solvent would clean
them.
The contact surfaces were pitted with slag and had to be sanded smooth.

Mike

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [urq] . Re: 83 urq smogged! Now What?
> From: "Patrick Carlier" <p.carlier at pandora.be>
> Date: Tue, August 20, 2013 10:14 am
> To: "Steve" <schmidt694 at gmail.com>, "Mike Sylvester" <mike at urq20v.com>
> Cc: <urq at audifans.com>
> 
> 
> Try some WD40 to clean the contacts on the switches . .
> Works miracles sometimes .
> 
> Pat
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Steve" <schmidt694 at gmail.com>
> To: "Mike Sylvester" <mike at urq20v.com>
> Cc: <urq at audifans.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2013 3:36 PM
> Subject: Re: [urq] . Re: 83 urq smogged! Now What?
> 
> 
> > Thanks Mike
> > I wonder if   new switches are NLA?
> > Ill check later
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> > On Aug 20, 2013, at 7:14 AM, "Mike Sylvester" <mike at urq20v.com> wrote:
> >
> >> My windows were getting slow and no amount of lube seemed to help.
> >> It turned out to be the switches.  The internal contacts were getting
> >> pitted.
> >> I took the switches apart, sanded the contacts and my windows are a
> >> normal speed again.
> >>
> >> BTW I have the '85+ style switches in my car not the early type.
> >>
> >> Mike
> >> '83 urq 20v
> >>
> >>> -------- Original Message --------
> >>> Subject: [urq] . Re: 83 urq smogged! Now What?
> >>> From: Steve Schmidt <schmidt694 at gmail.com>
> >>> Date: Mon, August 19, 2013 7:43 pm
> >>> To: urq at audifans.com
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Regarding this please;
> >>>
> >>> "Also the grease in the window winder mechanisms can get hard and the
> >>> motors can burn out. "
> >>>
> >>> Who has a tutorial for this fix?
> >>> It dawned on me that the motors strain due to lack of lubrication.
> >>> A simple spray on the felt window  runners  & the rail improved them but 
> >>> I
> >>> know they can be better.
> >>> I think I can get a rag into the back of the rail to clean it but when 
> >>> it
> >>> slides up & down it must swipe the grease too?
> >>> What about the winding mechanism?
> >>> How hard is it to remove the whole thing to lube it?
> >>> I'd really like these to work like new .
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> Steve
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