Date:         Mon, 22 Dec 2008 20:37:34 -0500
Reply-To:     Joy Hecht <hecht.joy@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Joy Hecht <hecht.joy@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Blackbeard Comes Home! (With questions)
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Some partial answers to your questions, Matt:


On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 6:55 PM, Matt Drew <t3vanagon@gmail.com> wrote:

> After nearly two months, the new-and-improved (well, repaired and
> repainted,
> at least) Blackbeard finally came home today!


Welcome home, Blackbeard!

>
>
>
> 1) The rubber stripping on the windshield is (according to the mechanic and
> body shop) still in great condition - nice and soft, supple, and with no
> tears....
> Problem is that there is all kinds of wind noise now!
> Is this normal when replacing a windshield?


Can't speak for the general case, but I had my windshield replaced around a
year ago and that didn't happen.

>
>
> 4) Air control levers - the bottom two don't go all the way to the right!
> You can push 'em there, but they don't stay.
> Their new position for "all the way to the right" is now more like and inch
> or so short.
> Anyone else have this? Is this something that just happens over time?


Well, I had a different but possibly related problem.  I couldn't turn my
heat off.  Very annoying, when it's warm out.  There's a stiff wire that
attaches to the heat lever, and runs from the lever towards the left, into
the cable, and through the cable down to something or other down near your
feet where the heater is.  When you shift the lever right or left it moves
the wire through the cable, and moves whatever is down near your feet.
(That's the high-tech explanation.)  So in my case the wire was bent in the
upper two inches, right by where it attaches to the lever.  When I pushed
left, it didn't slide nicely into the cable, it bent more.  Thus it didn't
slide in the cable at all, and the heat didn't go off.  And it wouldn' t all
the way to the right because it was bent and not that easy to straighten
out.

Your problem could be something similar - maybe your wire is bent up near
the lever, or maybe something is wrong with them lower down in the system
that's keeping them from sliding full up out of the cable.

Only a partial explanation, but your problem could be something with the
wires sliding in the cables.

I haven't solved my problem with the wires.  I think it takes getting a new
wire, sliding out the old one and sliding in the new one and then figuring
out what it's supposed to attach to.  (I have a way of diagnosing things and
then not fixing them, if they aren't dangerous and are just annoying.
Matilda doesn't appreciate it.)

Good luck with the next set of repairs!




Joy
and Matilda, who's annoyed that Joy doesn't fix all that stuff.  Scratchy
radio, drippy poptop, bent wires on the heat...