Why I converted to a manual top...

[Pastor T]

I love this entire thread. The top mechanism behind the passenger seat of my Boxster started making a slight clicking sound about a week ago. Within a few days my top way pretty much stuck in the up position. Long story short, I removed the push rods and now have a completely manual top. I have ordered a few bushings and plan to grease everything good, put it back together and see what happened. I cannot afford a new top transmission on the passengers side right now. I really believe the problem is inside there somewhere. I just reading everything I can find, and I think I can rebuild the transmission if it comes to that. In the meantime and maybe for longer than I intended, I have a manual top. There is nothing wrong with doing that for a while.

[SeanBeck]

Shinsaku-san,

The convertible top on my 986 Boxster (2001) finally gave up and stuck closed. I can hear brief motor running but it stops and the top does not move. The windows go down couple of inches and the light on the dash is on indicating top is not fully closed. I read your translated blog and am planning to change it to manual operation. I have two questions and THANK YOU for answering my questions in advance:

1. Do you have dimensions of your solution?
2. So all you had to remove is the transmission bolt and nothing else? i.e. unclipping of ball joints etc?