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With the top open, you should be able to reach the ball joint and pop it off. Most of the trouble comes from having the top stuck closed.
In the video I embedded in my first post I tried to pop off the ball joint first. You can see how difficult it is to reach and get any leverage.
Almost all of the cars that I've done the 'manual' roof to I have later repaired. The one that I started this thread with actually did have a bad microswitch in the roof latch. The '99 and earlier have two microswitches and one was loose enough that it didn't quite make contact.
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