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<div>Sounds like you are a crafty soul. Good job.<br clear="all"></div>
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<div>Charlie Durning</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 10:41 AM, Steven Trovato <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:strovato@optonline.net" target="_blank">strovato@optonline.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT:#ccc 1px solid;MARGIN:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;PADDING-LEFT:1ex" class="gmail_quote">Heres the latest on my window saga. I have disassembled the window regulator. I have drilled the rivets that hold the window crank part to the regulator. In there is a retainer spring. Each end of the spring has hooks that engage the drive slot edges. When you crank the window, the shaft and retainer spring turn inside the housing. I could take pictures, but there are some excellent ones on Barney's site here: <a href="http://mgaguru.com/mgtech/coupe/cp112.htm" target="_blank">http://mgaguru.com/mgtech/<u></u>coupe/cp112.htm</a><br>
<br>On my regulator, both ends of the spring broke off. The spring was remaining stationary, and the shaft was turning within. The little broken spring ends were floating around in the mechanism. I think they were jamming it and causing the symptoms. All the rest of the parts look great.<br>
<br>I have cannibalized an MGA coupe window regulator. It has a good spring. Rather than try to disengage the spring and move it to the other shaft, I think I will just take the whole shaft with spring attached from the MGA and put it into the Magnette regulator. Then it is just a matter of reattaching the shaft with some pop rivets, lubricating everything with some non-antique grease and putting it back into the door. I'll let you know how it goes.<br>
<br>BTW, I thought it was interesting that the repair shown on Barney's site involves using parts from a Magnette regulator to repair an MGA coupe regulator. I am doing the exact opposite! Poetic justice?<br><br>-Steve T.<br>
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