Converted a Power Sunroof to Manual

[Bruce Kennedy]

My younger son drove down from his college today to do his laundry, fill up his tank on biodiesel, and hopefully have me fix his sunroof. I decided that this $200 240 would be a good candidate for trying to convert to a manual sliding roof. I already had a donor sunroof from a td. The conversion took about two hours and works great. There is no need to remove the headliner either. You dont even need the whole sunroof, just the parts that are different on the manual one and this include two rubber pieces screwed onto the opening that are different as well. You will have to fabricate two small parts of light gauge steel that are welded on the td, which I chose to rivet (didnt want to catch the headliner on fire). If you had a td parts car you could cut these pieces off said donor car and not have to fabricate them as I did. There is a point of know return on this job, when you reach in and intentionally break off the tube that the cable ran through. You cant leave it there because it is in the way.
If I can get Andy to help me I'll post a few pictures to help explain the process.