"CalzoneGolem" (calzonegolem)
11/20/2018 at 06:52 • Filed to: Forest
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"CalzoneGolem" (calzonegolem)
11/20/2018 at 06:52 • Filed to: Forest | 1
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Getting this
Out of the little hole towards the bottom of the door is like solving one of those brain teaser puzzles.
As it turns out I didn’t really tighten the assembly up enough when I replaced the motor Midway through 2017. Well it's all tight and loctited now. I do not want to yank that out again.
shop-teacher
> CalzoneGolem
11/20/2018 at 07:16 |
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Ugh
Cé hé sin
> CalzoneGolem
11/20/2018 at 07:59 |
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Oooh, fixing a window.
That brings back happy memories from last month. Not.
At least you don’t have to take the entire door apart and loosen the front panel of the car t
o enable you do so.
XJDano
> CalzoneGolem
11/20/2018 at 08:48 |
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I have to do same on my XJ. Not looking forward to it. I’m getting by with my equinox by driving around with out the door panel and pushing up the glass and or applying tension to the cable and the motor continues the rest of it.
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CalzoneGolem
> shop-teacher
11/20/2018 at 09:08 |
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I had to spend 2 hours to tighten ad loctite 3 screws.
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CalzoneGolem
> Cé hé sin
11/20/2018 at 09:09 |
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Yeah there is that haha
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CalzoneGolem
> XJDano
11/20/2018 at 09:10 |
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Why do we do this to ourselves? Haha
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shop-teacher
> CalzoneGolem
11/20/2018 at 09:11 |
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Oooffffff!
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CalzoneGolem
> shop-teacher
11/20/2018 at 09:14 |
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I ke ep telling people that the guy that fixed it before screwed it up and when they ask who did it I tell them it was me.
wkiernan
> CalzoneGolem
11/20/2018 at 09:16 |
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When I did that I got that black tarry goop they use to tack down the plastic sheet all over my hands, my
shirt
, and everything else I came in contact with
for the next hour. That was the most annoying part of opening up
the door, but I didn’t need to fish the mechanism out like you did, all I had to do was spray a little silicone grease on the pulleys
, after which the previously jammed
window
glided up and down like new
. When I did the other side later
I punched
holes
for the little straw that goes in the spray nozzle,
and cove
red the holes
with tape when I was done.
RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> CalzoneGolem
11/20/2018 at 09:19 |
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This reminds me, I need to try again to find a regulator for my buddy’s Renault Alliance. Have I mentioned that their regulator is a plastic tube with a coiled metal cable thing inside, with kind of a pipe cleaner wound into it to hold oil?
Oh yeah, and Renault are still doing that bullshit today:
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CalzoneGolem
> wkiernan
11/20/2018 at 09:41 |
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Yeah that’s some next level redneck engineering! I'm impressed.
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CalzoneGolem
> RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
11/20/2018 at 09:42 |
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That's horrendous!
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shop-teacher
> CalzoneGolem
11/20/2018 at 10:15 |
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I’ve heard that guy is a terrible mechanic ;)
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RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> CalzoneGolem
11/20/2018 at 11:12 |
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It’s actually the fact that they’re still doing it today that gives me hope of fixing it. If I can buy one for a megane or something and cut to fit, it’s way easier than trying to find a Renault 9/Renault 11 one in Europe somewhere. Most of the Alliance’s Euro brethren have been scrapped, so...
Although - funny story - the timing belt tensioner on the 1.7 motor as his has is also used on some Volvos, so it’s possible to source. Go figure.
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CalzoneGolem
> shop-teacher
11/20/2018 at 11:24 |
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No doubt. What a hack!
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CalzoneGolem
> RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
11/20/2018 at 11:25 |
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Now that's a fun fact.
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RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> CalzoneGolem
11/20/2018 at 11:36 |
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The horrible cable that raises the window up and down uses the gaps as gear teeth, so the winder gear engages the cable directly. It’s simple and lightweight (one way the Alliance was the lightest four-door sedan of modern US manufacture), but puts you at the mercy of PTFE plastics what have aged to death. *CRACK* “Oh, feck”. *window refuses to raise*