Ferrari Mailing List: 308 Emergency window crank

[Robert Garven (rgarven]

Friends,

I had a problem with my Euro GT4 drivers side window on my stopped raising, lucky it turned out to be a switch, which I replaced with the correct early style switch, I had bought many years ago.

I decided to try my emergency window crank as I had never used it, or needed to use it, and was curious how it worked. I got it out inserted it and it felt like something was going to break and with no response from the mechanism, except some clunking, I stopped. I got the one out of my US GT4 only to find out it was different style, and obviously the correct one for these GT4's with a split pin inserted in it, that would engage in the grooves in the hole. But when I tried that one in both GT4's I could not get either one to work at all, and fearing unintentional damage, decided to ask if anyone had ever use one of these and their experience??? I assumed it would spin easily but all I felt was some clunking like the crank was jumping out of the hole and grooves. I have learned never to force anything on these old cars and hoping to hear from anyone that has made this work?

Rob