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Re: Door Closing Tech Tip, Window Cranking Question, and it

To: Steve Sage <fastsage@cox.net>
Subject: Re: Door Closing Tech Tip, Window Cranking Question, and it
From: Steve Laifman <SLaifman@SoCal.rr.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 14:53:23 -0800
Steve,

I believe you are running too rich. Typical symptom.  Or you have a leak 
in your fuel bowl into the carb throttle body.

Thanks for the door hint.  I have a similar driver side door closure, 
and never thought about that black piece.  I'll check it out.

Have you replaced the front or rear window guide rubber/felt?  The rear, 
as I recall, was a folded piece of cloth. If these do not fit properly, 
it could be a cause of your window issue.

Steve Laifman

Steve Sage wrote:

> 1. The Tiger's passenger door suddenly would not fully close 
> yesterday. I spent an hour trying to adjust the receiving (chrome) 
> latch on the body various ways but nothing allowed the "pin" in the 
> door itself (the vertical part that goes up and down when you move the 
> door handle on the door or push the button on the outside door handle) 
> to catch that second "rise" on the chrome latch on the car body. 
> Comparing the door hardware on the drivers side that worked well, I 
> noticed there's that little darker (almost black) horizontal piece in 
> the door latch hardware at the bottom that slides in and out. It was 
> frozen on the passenger side. I took the chrome assembly off of the 
> passenger door and took it apart, WD40'd it and made sure that sliding 
> part moved freely and re-installed the assembly. That was it and the 
> door now closes perfectly. I still haven't quite figured out the 
> function of that black sliding part (too much thinking needed?), but 
> look for that if the same happens to your Tiger or Alpine.
>
> 2. Question:  The passenger side window has gotten harder and harder 
> to roll up and down. This seems to have happened since I had the door 
> panels replaced but it has gradually become even worse since then. I 
> have to roll it up a couple of inches, down an inch, up a couple more 
> inches, etc. etc. to get it all the way open or closed. I know the 
> panel will have to come off but are there any obvious things to look 
> for when it does tonight? If I'm lucky, maybe it just needs some more 
> WD40 or lube.
>
> Steve Sage
>
> PS: I'm still trying to track down the noxious exhaust smell that gets 
> sucked into the car with either window partially down. From list 
> suggestions I've already checked the lower tank hoses behind the 
> bumper. All of those are on tight and dry. I temporarily extended the 
> tail pipes out another 4 inches using some cardboard I wrapped around 
> the real tips to see if getting them further out would change the 
> dynamics back there. No luck. It still stinks just as bad. I'm going 
> to change the upper crossover hose tonight, although what I have 
> doesn't smell like raw fuel. One thing I have noticed is that the 
> inside of the exhaust pipes is dark black and the exhaust coming out 
> of them is pretty powerfully smelly. I'm thinking that a good deal of 
> the problem may be just that the Holley carb jets are too rich so I'm 
> going to try some smaller sizes to see if that helps without hurting 
> performance.

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