Thread: Convertible top problem

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It's not an original drop top. Someone chopped it 2 inches and changed out the piston to electric. Going to try and shrink picture.

Keeps telling me file to large

actuator 001.jpg This is a picture of it I hope.

Attached is a picture of the actuator.

Will lube it all thanks. Will work on motor picture.

Here is pic of motor the side. hope this helps.

The pivot points on that side look awfully dry to me. What is being used to balance out the other side?

Can you get a picture that shows the left end, too? That will be the motor, if it's a linear actuator, as it seems to be. I'd still lube all of the hinge points as a starting point, and see where that gets you.

Hope the pictures came through good enough.

Yep, a linear actuator. Motor, pinion and worm gear driving the shaft in & out. Relays control motor direction. Limits could be torque switches internal to the actuator, hard to tell.
If lubing doesn't help you're going to be searching for some identifying marks on that actuator unit to try to find a direct replacement to keep from having to start from scratch on the drive. Or keep lifting to help the top "up", powering down....