Frank, Yes, WD40 or a contact cleaner safe for plastics will maby give you a temporary fix, but I have taken candy fragments out of the switches, paper, hair and just lots of crud. Yes, You can buy new switches, and if you do I will buy the old ones. Home of The Fixes. John hervey http://www.specialtauto.com/ --- In dmcnews@xxxx, FEHRISMANN@xxxx wrote: > To whomever can help, > > I have an '83 D. I have had it for 2 months. The person I bought it from > had it in storage for 5 years. He did start it up twice a year and i haven't > had any troubles except with the windows. Whenever I want to raise or lower > the windows, I have to keep pushing on/off/on/off until it decides to go. > Both windows do exactly the same. Are the switches bad? Are the motors bad? > Is it a bad ground? Any ideas? Thanks in advance for your thoughts. > > Frank > DOA 5823 > VIN 16509 > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]