Guest jmiller Posted August 21, 2013 Share Posted August 21, 2013 Help! My electric portion of the top pulldown quit and the manual release thru the trunk seems to be broke. Any alternatives other than cutting thru the trunk? The hardtop is on now and pulled down tight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwinCamFan Posted August 23, 2013 Share Posted August 23, 2013 Help! My electric portion of the top pulldown quit and the manual release thru the trunk seems to be broke. Any alternatives other than cutting thru the trunk? The hardtop is on now and pulled down tight.Cutting thru the trunk seems a bit excessive...The thing is, the manual release mechanism was meant only as an emergent procedure, when the pull down fails for any one of 3 or so main reasons;) the manual crank tends to get used over and over and eventually fails, it's pretty thin sheet steel not meant for repeated use. I've never seen one not 'unlatch' only fail to pull down the hard/soft tops becuase the mechanism arm gets bent. You may have already checked this, but are you sure the pulldown pins are not already released rather it's just the rubber seal and the weight of the top itself has 'glued' the top in place? I've had to pry them off as the hardtop won't just pop up when released like soft top will. When you do get the top off you'll need to dig into why the electric isn't working. If you do a search here the primary reasons have been covered many times, I think there are a few how to fix threads as well:) :eek: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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