[Bricklin] Air door problem

[Rick at High Tech Coatings]

The only guess I can make is something I have seen on one of my cars, it was
also the passenger door, seems there was some oil in the air line coming from
the cylinder. It got into the solenoid, It made it stick intermittently,
mostly when you wanted to take someone for ride, would work every other time,
would test it out and be fine, offer to take some one for  a ride and wham
stop working LOL. well I cleaned out the line with brake clean, disassembled
the solenoid and cleaned it out as well and now it works fine every time,
seems the oil just made too much drag in the solenoid for it to open with air
pressure, you would think oil would make it work better but not the case< at
;east in that instance.

On 12/19/2011 10:33:43 AM, John T. Blair (jblair1948 at cox.net) wrote:
> At 10:10 AM 12/19/2011, you wrote:
>
> >The passenger door unlatches fine.
>
> Scott,
>
> Shucks.  It sure would have been easy for the latch not to be firing
> so the door
> wouldn't open.  But then how would the air pressure effect that?
>
> Speaking of Air pressure, that doesn't
> make any sense if
> it's a bad
> ground.  The
> air pressure should not effect how the solednoid would fire.  But
> that's
> the only
> thing left we can thing of.
>
> >I clipped a jumper from the solenoid to ground at the mounting bolt
> for the air
> >controls, but
> I'll try running it right to the ground terminal on
> the battery to rule out a
> >weak ground on the air control panel.
>
> Air lines, power (clip leaded both power and grounds), the solenoid -
> cleaned and
> replaced, switches (bypassed by clip leads).
>
> >I'll
> try cleaning connections and using dielectric paste, as you suggest.
>
> That's about all I can thing of now.
>
> >Another thing that might be relevant is that I installed one of the
> oilers that John
> >Martin sells a couple of years ago. Maybe oil in the air system is
> causing problems?
> >I removed