GTV 6 power windows

[Richard Welty <rwelty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

[there are some questions at the end of this, i'll mark the start of the
questions with a big row of **** characters for those who want to skip the
narrative of how i arrived at the questions.]

so i'm stalled on the rear brakes in the wife's GTV 6 until parts arrive. i
finally got the "tamper proof" screw out of the ignition switch and got
that going, and moved on to the non-functional driver side power window. i
knew that at alfa's unlimited they had verified that the switches in the
dash weren't the problem, so the assumption was that the motor was bad or
there was an electrical connectivity problem in the door.

so i took the panel off, eyeballed the connector to the winder motor, and
then grabbed another motor from the salvaged parts pile.

it didn't work either.

i looked at the connector again, and suddenly realized that the wire that
snaked through the plastic tunnel into the door pillar was 1) the wrong
color (red instead of yellow) and 2) hanging loose from whatever it had
been connected to.

i found access to the wiring bundle behind the trim, and the other end of
the yellow/red wire, with an empty butt splice.

in going to graft in a new piece of (yellow) wire in place of the red one,
i noticed that the wire was hot even with the ignition off. i finished the
wiring job with battery disconnected, and reconnected the battery. the
motor now works, albeit jerkily and noisily but the passenger side window
now goes down but not up, which probably isn't related.

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now for the questions:

should a wire to the motor be hot with the ignition off? seems like odd
electrical design.

how does one adjust the winders in this car? i've yet to really find a
procedure and clearly removing and reinstalling the motor & spool threw
things out of adjustment.

is there an obvious reason why a window would go down but not up? should i
pull out the switch and douse it with contact cleaner? (i guess i should).

richard
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Richard Welty                                         rwelty@domain.elided
Averill Park Networking                                         518-573-7592
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