Re: Why Trim Differences on Clipper

Posted by HH56 On 2012/6/5 17:52:11

My apologies if I've drifted too far off-topic.

Our new member will wonder where his thread went -- but as he will find out, we do tend to wander. I accept being one of the worst offenders.

Given the failure rate of those Delco electric window motors, I told him that he probably made the right decision for his purposes,

Those motors seem horribly overstressed. Makes one wonder if that was another of the things rushed to production while needing a bit more refinement. Seems like they just substituted a motor for the hand crank. Even though there is a spring, all windows suffer from very little mechanical advantage. The hardtop quarters particularly are, IMHO, a failure waiting. Long heavy windows having to pivot coupled with the very short levers having no mechanical advantage means the motor and particularly the end of the worm drive gets all the stress. Add a few years of drying out of any lube and it's no wonder.