Window track lube / grease
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Window track lube / grease
Got everything apart and cleaned up; definitely the first time the mechanisms have ever been touched since installation on the assembly line. New glass and rollers. Regulators are looking good.
What grease works best? I've heard disk brake, marine, synthetic, white lithium... I'd really like to do this only once, so want to use whatever's optimal.
What grease works best? I've heard disk brake, marine, synthetic, white lithium... I'd really like to do this only once, so want to use whatever's optimal.
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A light coat of wheel bearing grease in thechannels worked great........
UNTIL....
they collected a ton of dust/fine sand causing the rollers to seize.
I'm beginning to wonder if greasing the inner channels is a good idea.
Maybe lithium-greasing the Pivot Points and Roller AXLES would work without collecting dust.
UNTIL....
they collected a ton of dust/fine sand causing the rollers to seize.
I'm beginning to wonder if greasing the inner channels is a good idea.
Maybe lithium-greasing the Pivot Points and Roller AXLES would work without collecting dust.
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A light coat of wheel bearing grease in thechannels worked great........
UNTIL....
they collected a ton of dust/fine sand causing the rollers to seize.
I'm beginning to wonder if greasing the inner channels is a good idea.
Maybe lithium-greasing the Pivot Points and Roller AXLES would work without collecting dust.
UNTIL....
they collected a ton of dust/fine sand causing the rollers to seize.
I'm beginning to wonder if greasing the inner channels is a good idea.
Maybe lithium-greasing the Pivot Points and Roller AXLES would work without collecting dust.
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I had the same problem the window channels and crank were all petrified grease after 40 plus years. i used white lithum grese in a tube and just squirted it out on every tem that moved. It works like a power window now and easy to crank!
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I did the drivers window 10 years ago. I used spray white grease, cause that's what I had and it didn't cake and dry out as some do. To this day the window flys up and down. The passenger side I never did and it is clearly slower.
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Got everything apart and cleaned up; definitely the first time the mechanisms have ever been touched since installation on the assembly line. New glass and rollers. Regulators are looking good.
What grease works best? I've heard disk brake, marine, synthetic, white lithium... I'd really like to do this only once, so want to use whatever's optimal.
What grease works best? I've heard disk brake, marine, synthetic, white lithium... I'd really like to do this only once, so want to use whatever's optimal.
I've done a couple power windows now with good results. A very, very light sparing coat of wheel bearing grease on the mating surfaces of the regulators and plain old spray silicone in the tracks. Why wheel bearing grease? Because I had it and it'll work fine. On they 'vette the windows shoot up so fast you'd think it'll chop your arm off. I just did an old Saab - went from 100% frozen to Day 1 new just with cleaning and lube. That one does sit outside all the time so temp is a consideration.
I know there'll be someone telling me white lithium grease doesn't freeze - it can and does. Or let's say develops undesirable properties in low temps. No idea exactly what Ford put in there but it pretty sure it was WLG - that was a a giant p.i.t.a a couple winters ago. Doors frozen shut and if they do open can't be latched closed again. Ugh.
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My F150 had a recall because they used white lithium grease on the door latches and up here in the NE it froze one particularly cold winter.
I know there'll be someone telling me white lithium grease doesn't freeze - it can and does. Or let's say develops undesirable properties in low temps. No idea exactly what Ford put in there but it pretty sure it was WLG - that was a a giant p.i.t.a a couple winters ago. Doors frozen shut and if they do open can't be latched closed again. Ugh.
I know there'll be someone telling me white lithium grease doesn't freeze - it can and does. Or let's say develops undesirable properties in low temps. No idea exactly what Ford put in there but it pretty sure it was WLG - that was a a giant p.i.t.a a couple winters ago. Doors frozen shut and if they do open can't be latched closed again. Ugh.
