[austinporsche]

Lol, you're not the first to suggest an intervention. Unfortunately, I hang around with other like-minded folks, so it becomes a bit of a bubble (all have at least 4 cars beyond the daily driver).

I put the top in service mode again, took off those plastic hinge covers, poked around (I now understand that it is the hydraulic pivot arm that moves the clamshell and not the other pivot arm) and played around with jiggling the clamshell on both sides.

My problem side (passenger side), clearly has more play in it than the other side.

Problem appears to be that I have some "slack" in the transmission on one side that is not present on the other. I am pretty sure that this "play" (about 5 degrees of free rotational movement in the passenger transmission, zero play at all in the driver side transmission) is keeping that side of the clamshell from pulling down as snugly as I would like. FYI, I checked the V/boomerang arm bolt to be sure it was tight in case that's where the play was and it was tight.

Looks like I am either going to have to rebuild that transmission with a new plastic gear or find a good used one.

Thoughts?