IÆm having yet another small problem with my truck, and I donÆt know if anyone has a clue on how to fix this, sans replacement. My driverÆs side weather strip at the base of the window gets ôpulledö into the channel for the window when I crank it down. ItÆs making the operation of the window increasingly more difficult, and I worry that with repeated use itÆs going to cause some damage to the crank mechanism. HereÆs what IÆve done so far to try to fix it, but without any positive results:
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• <font size="2" face="Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, Helv, Helvetica, Sans">Thoroughly cleaned the glass with full strength ammonia, followed by another cleaning with Windex. It didnÆt fix it, but it left a pleasant lemon aroma.</font></li>

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• <font size="2" face="Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, Helv, Helvetica, Sans">Thoroughly cleaned the weather stripping with the aforementioned ammonia, using first the abrasive side of a scouring sponge, followed by a good wipe down with the sponge side. Same results including the pleasant lemon aroma.</font></li>

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• <font size="2" face="Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, Helv, Helvetica, Sans">Cleaned the strip again with Orange Powered Goo Gone. Again same results, but now a pleasant orange scent to accent the lemon. Thank goodness I live in Florida, as the citrus aroma would drive me nuts.</font></li>

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, Helv, Helvetica, Sans">IÆm at wits end as to trying something new. Each time I clean the weather strip a black residue remains on the cleaning cloth, which lends me to believe that the rubber in the strip is has completely deteriorated. IÆm wondering if the strip has gotten to the point where the deteriorated rubber is actually becoming adhesive like, adding to the problems? I'm also wondering if this strip is supposed to have a felt-like lining on the inside, and which the absence of the felt is causing the sticking? Any suggestions?

There resides on the inside edge of that stripping a thin layer of a felt type substance. repeated cleaning with harsh chemicals (ammonia?) will result in the bond of this layer and the rubber to break down, eventually causing the loss of felt, allowing the window glass to come in contact with the raw rubber, and as we all know...raw rubber and glass stick pretty well. how's that for a runon sentance? LOL...Since there are lots of ways to get a layer of felt on the inside of that strip again, yet none of them really cost effective, i recommend that you get on the horn with St.Charles Isuzu and have Joe Isuzu ship you some weatherstrips PRONTO <img border="0" alt="[Hillbilly]" title="" src="graemlins/notooth.gif" />

Well, I guess that a day's worth of marinating in the citrus scented chemical solution did its work, as my window is operating as advertised today. I felt inside the weatherstrip and to my utter amazement it still had the felt lining in there. I also didnÆt end up with the back of my nails being black from the previous goo that was living there. I'm guessing that I didn't hit that "repeated cleaning" stage yet, as this is only the second time that I can remember cleaning the window <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="images/icons/grin.gif" />

First the lifter stops ticking, and now the window works, IÆm getting scared that my truck may be soon to having a major meltdown, as it always seems to behave its best before that happens.

<small>[ June 04, 2003, 01:28 PM: Message edited by: rattler98 ]</small>

not to be an a$$ or anything... but its probleme du jour, not problem...

la probleme... la prochaine fois, je t'enculera.

jeje, thats nasty

~Santi

<small>[ June 06, 2003, 01:52 AM: Message edited by: SJS'94 ]</small>

Well, mercy buckets (merci beaucoup) to you <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" />

funny thing rattler I have the same problem with my windows as well, and Im not clear on exactly what you did to fix the problem, please re-iterate......thanks

Spreedin, it was more or less the combination of cleaning the window, and the inside of the weatherstrip that I think led to the problem going away. I used ammonia to clean both, followed by good old fashion Windex.

My next possible solution I considered (and still might) is to apply RainX to the INSIDE of the window, as it's nothing more that "window wax." My dad told me that he used to use window wax all the time when he was a kid to help water bead off of windows, and it probably would act as some mild lubricant between the window and the rubber.