Need advice with a couple of problems.

[Mainemantom]

On the 1990 CV I was driving at night a few nights ago. The inside and outside seemed dim. I did not think too much of it. Last night I was driving the same car at night. The interior and exterior lights seemed much brighter. I think the problem might be the voltage regulator. Any other ideas ?

On one of the 89 TCs. the passenger front window seems to work fine until the window gets half way down. Then it gets stuck. I don't want to force anything. I think lubricating the channel might help. What would work best ?

[His Royal Ghostliness]

For lubricating the tracks I typically use wheel bearing grease of the synthetic variety. Mostly cause I usually have lots of it, but also cause it doesn't give a hoot whether it's hot or cold out there, and it's very sticky and thus it's hard to wash off by rain water entering thru saw cracked dew-wipes.

[gadget73]

yeah that works fine for the mechanism. In the felts, silicone spray works well. Worth pulling the door panel and watching it just to make sure its not trying to eat a wire or something though.


Regulators aren't that problematic, but bad connections to them are. If its an internal regulator I'd be looking more at the wiring harness from the alternator. That style is prone to melting. \
External reg could just be dirty connections or the brush in the alternator wearing down. There may also be a connection somewhere between the regulator and the alternator plug, the Mark VII has one, not sure about the Vic.

[Mainemantom]

Good suggestions. Will work on it.

[DerekTheGreat]

What do you guys use for "silicone spray?" I was thinking of just spritzing some of that 303 Aerosprace protectant in my felts. Haven't ever done that yet.

[sly]

I use this one... http://www.autozone.com/greases-and-...ant/828521_0_0

[TecNickal]

I use 3M Dry Silicone spray in the window felts.

[knucklehead0202]

Wouldn't silicone spray leave a film on the window? That's why I haven't done it yet.

[gadget73]

I have some CRC stuff free from work but its all about the same.

I only used it in the felts at the front and rear edge of the glass. Never had problems with it streaking. It doesn't contact the glass where you actually look through. I also used the straw to poke it in there fairly far so it wouldn't run out and down the window.

[DerekTheGreat]

I use this one... http://www.autozone.com/greases-and-...ant/828521_0_0

I use 3M Dry Silicone spray in the window felts.

Thanks fellas, I think I've seen the liquid wrench stuff at Vato zone. Hell, I have so many cans of stuff in my garage I may even has some silicone spray already...

Wouldn't silicone spray leave a film on the window? That's why I haven't done it yet.

This is why I haven't done it yet, my windows are tinted and I don't want it getting in between the film and delaminating it...

[sly]

It hasn't made the tint on my windows peel any worse than it already was. And I hosed the hell out of those channels and got it all over my windows. I was not near as neat about it with my car. On my wife's car, I was more surgical with it. If you spray it on and let the foam settle in first before ramming the window through it, it works a lot better for not getting all over the windows. It wipes off easy enough though. A little soapy water in a spray bottle that my wife mixes up with a little IPA works like a champ to clean the windows and the tint and takes the excess schmoo off easy.

Obviously this is with the liquid wrench version since that's what I have.

[DerekTheGreat]

Hmm, alrighty then. I'll run it. You notice an improvement with wind noise?

[sly]

No. Only that the windows move up and down without as much resistance. I have no wind noise on those cars.

[DerekTheGreat]

Box Townie problems then.

[86VickyLX]

Inspect your fuse links. One of them feeds your charging system in stock form. If you haven't already, I would suggest you ditch that whole system and go to a 3G alternator from a Taurus. Make sure you put the battery sense wire on the starter solenoid or the battery cable directly. Do not run it to the charge stud.