[s-cars] Sunroof Adjustment BTDT (revisited)

[bill mahoney]

Bob,
Through the miracle of S Car listial, databasial, organeyezation, I
found my old post WRT to this dilemna.
Read it through a few times to grok it and I think it will work.  It's
really not difficult IIRC.
(Please note that if you use this as a switch cleaning opportunity,
there is one contact point that looks like it is broken, but I think
it (as they say) "works as designed," i.e. it is not broken.)
Bill M

[s-cars] Sunroof Adjustment BTDT
Airbil at aol.com Airbil at aol.com
Mon Jun 14 00:37:21 EDT 2004


Perhaps this happened last winter when I tried to open the sunroof to
the vent position whilst it was iced shut.  Why would anyone do this? 
Dont know, but while mine did 'pop' open, it also skipped a few gear
teeth.  This left my open/close dial at about 10 a 4 oclock instead of
12 and 6 in order for the roof panel to be flat and in the correctly
closed position:/
LesFix~
Pull down light/SR dial panel from front windshield side.  Just let it
hang down.
Turn the SR dial control so that it is at the correctly closed 12 and
6 position.
Observe crank shaft hole where manual key would be inserted for manual
operation and note that there is a very small notch on the outside of
this key hole shaft.
Take a sharp instrument and make a small mark where this notch is
adjacent to it on the housing as a reference point.
Turn SR control so that SR panel is flat with roof i.e. the roof panel
is in the correctly closed position. Observe the key hole shaft as it
rotates and make another mark on the housing where the notch stops.
It will take a little playing to ascertain that the panel is in the
flat and correctly closed position.  When it is, make this
aforementioned mark on the housing.
Now look at the motor housing assembly and observe that there are
three star type allen screws that need to be removed in order that the
motor drive gear can be lowered, taken out of gear so to speak and
have the drive gear rotate freely.
So remove these allen type screws (they are not real tight)and pull
the whole assembly down.
You will see that the motor assembly has an angled drive gear while in
the roof there are matching drive tracks that this gear sits between.
Now is a good time to clean all this and regrease.  Brake cleaner with
a red plastic extension spout worked extremely good for the cleaning
portion.  I then applied some new bearing grease.
Now take the manual SR key and push it into the key hole/shaft and
rotate it (clockwise IIRC) until the notch on the shaft lines up with
the first mark that you made on the housing.
Re screw the housing assembly into place.  If by some miracle the
panel is in the closed position AND the SR switch is in the 12 and 6
oclock (closed) position, you are done.
If not you will have to unscrew the assembly again (not a big deal)
and try some further rotational adjustments.
Thought I'd get this out whilst still sort of fresh in my head.
Cheer's
Bill m