Ive found a UK supplier able to fabricate the springs inside the quick lift window regulator. If you have a dropped door glass that will not stay in your desired position or annoyingly drops a few millimetres when closed creating whistling noises, this is the repair for you.
The two springs are the central clock spring as its technically known, and the outer brake/release spring as I technically know it. If your clock spring is broken, additional effort is required to operate the regulator. If your brake spring is broken you have the equivalent of an elevator plummeting to the basement from the top floor. If you are Nigel, you have a piece of wood or leather straps. Im trying to gauge who needs/wants either spring? The larger the batches, the lower the prices.
Let me know if youre interested in either or both.
Certainly that would be a very useful addition to the range of spares available. What would be even more helpful would be re-creating the alloy plate with the square hole in a much tougher material. It's this part, IMHO, that lets the regulator down by gradually wearing down from a square hole to a circular one. I know this has been talked about at length in the past but I just feel putting a new spring (or springs) in a regulator with the aforementioned problem won't resolve the many issues afflicting the Bright regulator.
An easy alternative (as used by me) is to fit acrylic windows with sliders.
Certainly that would be a very useful addition to the range of spares available. What would be even more helpful would be re-creating the alloy plate with the square hole in a much tougher material. It's this part, IMHO, that lets the regulator down by gradually wearing down from a square hole to a circular one. I know this has been talked about at length in the past but I just feel putting a new spring (or springs) in a regulator with the aforementioned problem won't resolve the many issues afflicting the Bright regulator.
An easy alternative (as used by me) is to fit acrylic windows with sliders.
Alloy plate with square hole? Originals are steel with steel lugs to work the brake spring. Easy to fabricate. Let me know.
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Not much use to me, Gary. As mentioned, I've now got Perspex (drivers with slider, passenger goes up and down) and it's good while since I last looked at the regulator but I was fairly sure the top plate (with the square hole) was alloy. Either way, it's this bit that caused me trouble. I'm sure I've posted elsewhere but my solution was to make the round hole square again but at a larger size and then insert a strip of appropriately sized metal folded to a square shape to bring it back to the correct size. Seems to work (so far)!
The outer shells seem to survive OK unless you are brutal in dismantling, and knock the ears off.
If I remember right, Timmy C had some machined bits.
The only other item that's difficult to fix is the channel that sits at the bottom of the window, but I managed to make replacements by rolling a strip of 16g steel around a drill. (See pic)
All my other window spares are resting in Nigels spares stash.
