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Re: Soft Top Failure -- advice needed
Posted by Doug [Email] (more from Doug) on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:29:35
In Reply to: Soft Top Failure -- advice needed, Doug, Tue, 6 Nov 2007 02:33:36
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Okay PROBLEM FIXED!!
I finally had time to really take time and examine the mechanism
Answer: the 5th bow microswitch had bent, the clicking was it dragging across the 5th bow lever arm as the bow raised up.
It was hard to muster all my fingertip strength, but it took about 10 minutes to gently keep coaxing the switch lever rearward and back into place. It was bent in the middle so I had to straighten it too.
the microswitch engages as the 5th bow lowers fully, the mechanism arm pushes the microswitch lever up and it presses a tiny finger button to engage the switch
I thought about removing the switch to bend it perfectly back, but that requires using a 3mm wrench deep up in a tiny area (trust me I tried) and seems impossible to get the front screw of it out without some major disassembly of the car! so I settled for the above fix instead.
The 9-3 has hydraulic arm actuators so has no gears in the mechanism FWIW
I had seen it written this switch could bend and cause problems, it was that scraping sound that threw me off.
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