Re: [sunroof] parts needed, pleeeeease somebody help me....

["Ian Overholt" <ioverholt@hotmail.com>]

You have tried Potterman, right?  :)  I've got my sunroof apart right now, 
but I can't picture the parts you're talking about.  They have made changes 
to the design of the cables.  Well, not the cables, but the cable end which 
slides on the roof guides (makes the roof tilt and retract).  Dang, language 
is tough when you're trying to describe sunroof parts, huh?  I bought new 
rail guides (tracks which attach to the inside of the car), but the new 
cables seem to slide in the old guides.  The new cables slide a lot easier 
in the new guides however.

I've been tinkering with my roof now for several weeks.  My sunroof hasn't 
worked for three years and I finally decided to fix it.  I was getting tired 
of all the water flooding the car!  Two of the hex nut pems were pulled out 
(the ones that hold the small cover plates in) and one of the big sheet 
metal screws that holds the track to the car had pulled it's hole bigger 
too.  I'm trying to JB weld some nuts in the holes left from the pem nuts.  
I also added JB weld around the sheet metal screw openings in an attempt to 
get more "meat" around these points for the screws to tap into.  I might 
just have to use a larger screw.

That's the fun of sunroofs!

Ian Overholt
'88 16v
'78 Champagne Edition


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