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Wind Me Up! Tech: Windows

Well, here we go again, it has been some months since we presented the last ‘Tech’ feature but hopefully you, dear reader, will find the following helpful, if not now, then in the future.

The window problem we’re looking at here is on a 1978 Chevy Big 10 truck but the principal mechanism is similar for many makes and models of car, truck and van. Most of the following is also applicable to standard hand cranked windows in general.

The issue of a slow moving or lazy electric window has presented itself many times

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