power windows
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From: Columbia Missouri
Possible. Maybe someone with a '76 AIM can check out the window motor wiring and see if there is a common ground or separate grounds for each motor.
If it's separate grounds then I doubt that's the problem. It might be a corroded power wire.
How is the system voltage? Battery in good shape with no corrosion or faulty connections? How's the alternator's output?
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From: Orange Park Florida
You can check the voltage at the relay or the switches...and then across the motor, but I bet it's the load dragging the motor assy down and not the electrics....
winter is coming, chilly weather up north...and so the grease in the door tracks seizes up and the wheels don't roll/slide too great....
I afraid what you need to do is take it ALL apart, glass outta the naked door, and get those tracks outta there, get a nice large concrete mixing tray from Home Despot/other...and load it with 2 gallons of gasoline to soak those tracks overnight then you can get a wire or natural fiber brush to clean them up squeeky clean.....that damn old dried out grease is a killer....when you put them back together use NO LUBE OF ANY KIND.....if the nylong rollers are bad, obviously they need changing.....Dr. Rebuild for starters, there are other suppliers...
I degreased my tracks 12 years ago, and the windows work like a guillotine since then....
grease the motors/shafts/gearbox....obviously....but NOT the tracks...
winter is coming, chilly weather up north...and so the grease in the door tracks seizes up and the wheels don't roll/slide too great....
I afraid what you need to do is take it ALL apart, glass outta the naked door, and get those tracks outta there, get a nice large concrete mixing tray from Home Despot/other...and load it with 2 gallons of gasoline to soak those tracks overnight then you can get a wire or natural fiber brush to clean them up squeeky clean.....that damn old dried out grease is a killer....when you put them back together use NO LUBE OF ANY KIND.....if the nylong rollers are bad, obviously they need changing.....Dr. Rebuild for starters, there are other suppliers...
I degreased my tracks 12 years ago, and the windows work like a guillotine since then....
grease the motors/shafts/gearbox....obviously....but NOT the tracks...
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Heel & Toe
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From: Charlottetown PE
Gene
I have not checked the voltage
The gauge barely moves when I lower the windows
the problem has been ongoing for several months
yes the cold weather is coming however we do not live
at the north pole
its still 75 degrees no frost on the pumpkins yet if you know what I'm saying
LOL
and my Car is kept in a heated garage
I have not checked the voltage
The gauge barely moves when I lower the windows
the problem has been ongoing for several months
yes the cold weather is coming however we do not live
at the north pole
its still 75 degrees no frost on the pumpkins yet if you know what I'm saying
LOL
and my Car is kept in a heated garage
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From: Boca Raton Florida
the fact that they are 32 yrs old might have something to do with it. The tracks get gummed up and the rollers wear and the connectors might drop a little voltage here and there. All that together will make them run slow. I would take 1 door apart at a time, clean the tracks Real well, relube them and put them back together. You might need new rollers, they are cheap. Look over the connectors real well, there are more splices in there than you would believe. Clean ans crimp the connectors to make sure they make good contact, use a little no-ox to stop/prevent corrosion.
They will run like new
They will run like new
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SIXFOOTER is spot on. I have the same problem with my '75. This Wisconsin winter I;m going to remove the windows and replace the rollers etc. The way I found out that it was old grease was by hosing WD-40 into the tracks and roller area. After leaving it soak over nite the windows worked much better. Old grease and several owners later, it's time for the disassembly and rebuild.
