Electric to manual cabby roof conversion

Post Thu Jul 04, 2013 5:02 pm

Anyone ever done it and what do you need? Also how difficult is it to do?

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Post Thu Jul 04, 2013 5:29 pm

Why not stick with the electric set up?

Post Thu Jul 04, 2013 5:30 pm

bab-91 wrote:Why not stick with the electric set up?

It's not very healthy and apparently they are expensive to maintain.

Post Thu Jul 04, 2013 5:43 pm

Give this a go.

http://www.e30zone.net/e30zonewiki/inde ... ctric_roof

Seems like a shame to remove a spec from the car.

Post Thu Jul 04, 2013 5:52 pm

bab-91 wrote:Give this a go.

http://www.e30zone.net/e30zonewiki/inde ... ctric_roof

Seems like a shame to remove a spec from the car.

The motors need re syncing as the previous owner removed most of the mechanism.

Sooooooo electric to manual conversion. How much and how hard to do?

Post Thu Jul 04, 2013 6:05 pm

does the horseshoe work electrically? If so the most straight forward conversion is to wire that up through an old leccy window switch and some relays and remove the roof motors and raise that manually. I did mine for around £25, but that included making it child proof.

Post Thu Jul 04, 2013 9:21 pm

stew72 wrote:does the horseshoe work electrically? If so the most straight forward conversion is to wire that up through an old leccy window switch and some relays and remove the roof motors and raise that manually. I did mine for around £25, but that included making it child proof.

It does. That's exactly what I was thinking of doing. Cheers mate.

Post Sat Jul 06, 2013 7:17 am

scjimbo wrote:
stew72 wrote:does the horseshoe work electrically? If so the most straight forward conversion is to wire that up through an old leccy window switch and some relays and remove the roof motors and raise that manually. I did mine for around £25, but that included making it child proof.
It does. That's exactly what I was thinking of doing. Cheers mate.

I installed the switch in the passengers side rear quarter panel where the manual lever would go. As I have kids I then wired the relays to earth through the passengers door courtesy light switch and the header rail micro switch so that the horseshoe can only be raised with a door open and the roof released from the header rail.