[DeTomaso] Window motor mensa.

[Dave Londry]

Let you know about mid-November.
(When the northcoast winter monsoon starts)
(unless it goes no-show first.)
dave

On 07/08/2012 9:19 PM, MikeLDrew at aol.com wrote:
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> In a message dated 8/7/12 19 54 44, boyd411 at gmail.com writes:
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>> I thought "busted" meant broken as in "no longer working " in which 
>> case attempting to open the window by manually turning the remnants 
>> of a gear would be a fruitless endeavor. I don't think the number of 
>> window gears I have "worked with" is relative to the factual accuracy 
>> of the statement.  As a person used to being observant and factual 
>> you should have noticed that I did specify "broken gear as in 
>> disintegrated , not just missing. A few teeth"
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>
> "Busted" means "no longer one piece".  Check out a few images of the 
> failure mode here:
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> http://www.panteraplace.com/page59.htm
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> The text indicates that the teeth strip off the gears, but all of the 
> broken gears I've seen had their teeth intact.  They break from the 
> center outwards, but the housing contains all the pieces, so even a 
> broken gear will function to some degree, sometimes, initially.  
> Eventually it breaks further and then jams up the works.
>
> By coincidence, Bev Hall just sent out a newsletter in which she 
> reminisces about suffering a headlight breakdown with Gary many years 
> ago (same mechanism as the window, hence same problem). I've seen cars 
> where the headlights wouldn't go up and down smoothly, but instead 
> they would sort of jerk and shudder as they went up and down.  This 
> was because the gear was broken, but still functional to a degree.
>
> In any case, it will be interesting to find out what Dave's problem 
> really is?
>
> Mike