Convertible top motors, How to fix. with pictures! |
Convertible top motors, How to fix. with pictures! |
Aug 4, 2006 - 11:52 PM |
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Enthusiast Joined Jun 29, '03 From 캘리포니아 Currently Offline Reputation: 23 (100%) |
Ok so i've been meaning to post this for awhile now, but haven't had the chance till now. Well i've heard a lot of people having problems with thier convertible top opening and closing. And usually the motor is still good, except there is a part inside that is broken. What happened with mine was that one of the sides stopped working and my convertible top needed assistance opening and closing. But the motor was still good, cause it still made noise when i pressed the button. The problem was a pin inside. So if you are having this problem, and your motor still sounds good, then try this, and it may solve your problem...
First you'll need to remove your convertible top motor from which ever side isn't working properly. So first remove the bottom part of the seats, they just pop right out, they are held in by two clips in the front. Then you will need to remove the rear plastic panel on the side your trying to get to. Don't worry bout the seat belts, you can leave those attached, cause you just need to get the panel out of the way. After those are out of your way, You should be able to see the convertible top motors. They are held in by 4 10mm bolts, but you will also need to remove the rear speakers and cut a zip tie before you can unplug the wiring clip and remove the motor. After you remove the motor, you will need to take off 4 hex bolts connecting the motor to a black box that has gears in it. After you take that apart, it should look like this... Now we can take a look at the problem. There is supposed to be a pin that keeps the gear moving when the motor moves. When this pin breaks, the motor will just keep spinning, but it has nothing left to turn the gear. This pin seems to break off since it happened to both of my motors. Im guessing its like a fail safe device or something, if there's too much stress put on the motor is just breaks the pin, so you dont burn out the motor? Thats my guess. Or maybe the pins just suck. Well anyways, it needed to be replaced. Here's a picture of the Motor with the broken pin removed... Here's a picture of what was left of the pin... Here's where your gunna need to improvise cuase i couldn't find a part number for the pin. I ended up cutting drill bits in half and using the solid end as the pin, whatever get's it done right? haha Im guessing you could use any pin as long as it fits in the hole pretty snug. I hope this helps This post has been edited by MaskedMan: Aug 4, 2006 - 11:56 PM -------------------- |
Apr 15, 2015 - 2:32 PM |
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Enthusiast Joined Apr 15, '15 From Birmingham UK Currently Offline Reputation: 0 (0%) |
Fantastic to have found this site!
Since reading your generous post here earlier on today I got myself tooled up then went out and attacked the job. I managed to remove the motor (passenger side) and sure enough, there was about 4mm worth of pin lodge within the grease surrounding the main shaft. Try as I might, I just cannot drive what remains of the pin through the shaft - its as though its a part of the shaft itself - and in the process of trying I have somehow lost the caste type washer that was on the shaft. I think this is to hold the cog on but I tried to slide that along too and its pretty much stuck to the shaft, although before I attempt a reassembley after the fix I will make sure I replace it (the washer). I just caught our local diy store and bought 5 3/32 drill bits (because thats how confident I am in my general ability :-)) so I will try again, after some food, to drive the stubbornly stuck pin through the shaft. If I am right in my thinking (that this pin is just in situ to prevent the cog from sliding toward the motor itself, thus disengaging the drive action) would it not be feasible for me to knock a new section of pin into both existing holes on either side of the central spine, as long as they were tight fitting...or am I missing the whole point of why the pin is there at all. Thanks for putting this here my friend... Mark |
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