Schoir, thank you for such detail in your description, but I'm still lost. I stared at the shop manual and read your post for 20 minutes, while looking at the same pieces of metal seemingly assembled together permanently with some kind of hidden Porsche magic wand. The shop manual showed how to disassemble, but only while the top is completely down but mine is up. And they aren't even making sense to me with their terminology and I certainly don't see any red caps anywhere.
I'm uploading some pics.
Is the nuckle what I disassembled below to expose Area #2? There is what looks like a steel cap in Area #2, but that POS doesn't want to come off and there is no room to get anything between it and it's plastic casing. I will refer to Area #1 in the next pic.
What I think is the pushrod or some kind of bar lays behind Area #1 below. But there is no way to disconnect any of this. Am I completely off and need to look between the seats and doors somewhere?
I want this top completely manual, I'll get speedster bumps or something to secure it, but I no longer want to rely on 5,000 points of failure every time I'm caught at night or in the rain. Please help, I'm not far from taking a razor to it and making it a permanent convertible.
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