[sunroof] dammit....stripped?

[ioverholt@hotmail.com (Ian Overholt)]

Well, you might not need to replace the cable yet.  It depends on how 
stripped it is.  This is what I would try.

a.  Remove the sunroof panel.
b.  Unscrew the sunroof gear.
c.  Spray silicone lube on the cables while moving them back and forth 
trough the tracks.
d.  Do the parallel adjustment as perscribed in the Bentley.

My thoughts on what happened are this:  The cables got tighter because they 
need to be lubed.  Then the force on the gear was greater which caused the 
cables to jump teeth.  Now the cables are fighting each other because they 
are not parallel and they are hard to move in the track.  If you continue to 
operate the sunroof with sticky out of alignment cables, you will end up 
stripping them.

If the above does not work, you will have to replace the cables.

GL!

Ian Overholt
'88 16v

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