Runner and motor alignment
- Make
- Alfa Romeo
- Model
- GTV / Spider GTV and Spider (916) Factory Service Manual
- Year
- 1995–2000
- Section
- Sunroof › Runner and motor alignment
- Remove the motor.
- Remove the relay from the bracket.
- Disconnect the electrical connection and remove the motor.
Refit the electric motor reversing the sequence followed for removal. Carry out the runner and motor alignment procedure (see specific paragraph).
RUNNER AND MOTOR ALIGNMENT
In the event of a fault and/or replacement of the sunroof control components (motor, runners, racks and pinions) it is necessary to restore the correct alignment of the roof runners, and the corresponding coupling with the motor, proceeding as follows:
- Remove the sunroof glass (see specific paragraph).
- Detach the electric motor, without however disconnecting the electrical connections (see specific paragraph).
- Working on both sides, remove the seeger ring fastening the roof glass stay bracket.
- Remove the bracket, withdrawing it from the rear slide.
– Manually take the runners to the front area, to the roof closed position.
- Set a screwdriver in the slot of the fixed guide, in correspondence of the protruding pin.
- Push the outside runner by hand.
- Upon reaching the quarterlight opening position, the profile of the inner runner is in the slot in contact with the screwdriver. Stop in this position, aligning the front edge of the slot with the rear edge of the profile.
– Repeat this procedure also on the other guide, making sure that the two positions are identical.
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