Bot a '93 300E for cheap to part out as I needed a bunch of parts for some other W124's I own. Was trying to figure out how to remove the whole sunroof from this 300E as it appears to be in good shape.

I got the sunroof unbolted and it is sitting/balancing on the front headrests. The cable for the sunroof is the next thing to figure out.

I got the cable unbolted from the sunroof tray. My googling for how to remove the cable because it has a butterfly attachment at one end, tells me that if I have power I can feed the cable out via the sunroof motor. Unfortunately I don't have power, and my googling tells me I have to manually crank the cable out. Is my google search correct that without power I have to go the manual crank route?

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'89 260e (212K Mi.), '92 400e (208K Mi.), '92 400e (not a misprint) (146K Mi.), '95 C220, '81 240D--Sold