RE: Milano sunroof

["Brian Shorey" <bshorey@domain.elided>]

> Went to visit Brian Shorey (bs to his friends) who has a disassembeled
> headliner/sunroof etc, etc. for inspection & experimentation (hell, Brian
has
> a disassembled almost everything that Alfa built since 1971)

and it's all so nicely organized ;)

> itself off in the close mode, but continue to run in the open mode!  we
> couldn't figure out what was required to reset those stops, so...we took
the
> cowards (I mean expeditious) way out & swapped in the "spare", lubed the

actually, i believe that resetting those stops would not have done any
good - when the motor was run, it ran right past the stop in one direction,
which indicated to me that the cam on the plastic gear was worn to the point
where it wasn't actuating the switch.

perhaps the switch can be adjusted, which is why i saved the motor and
assembly.  i never throw anything away (as you well know).

fwiw,

bs

> track, and now "tutto va bene".
> This is actually a cool design.  The whole actuating mechanism is hidden,
> covered in the roof, and the motor's drive gear goes up into a
> hole in the
> roof.  The motor assembly (includes motor & "transmission") has a plastic
> cover that is held onto the motor ass'y by a couple of screws -
> removing that
> exposes a molded piece that resembels a number of "stacked"
> plastic wheels of
> decreasing diameter.  They have raised plastic "pointers" molded
> into them -
> these are the limit switch cams.  Couldn't move this thing by
> hand, couldn't
> figure out which way was the right way to move them to correct my
> predicament
> - ran away.  If anyone can shed some light on how to make this
> better, I'd
> appreciate it.
> A few pointers - all you need to do to remove the motor is to pry
> down the
> cover from the overhead.  It has a few tabs that go up & over the
> forward
> lip of the main console plastic housing & a snap fit on the
> trailing edge.
> The motor is held in by 2 phillips screws on the rear edge, and
> the forward
> end has a slot that slides onto a threaded post, and nut fastens
> it securely.
>  Can't really get at the phillips, they are covered by the rear
> section of
> the main overhead console.  Just loosened the console enough to
> pry it down
> enough to get at the screws.  DO NOT TRY TO PULL OUT THE WHOLE
> MAIN CONSOLE.
> It is fastened securely to the headliner by 2 posts (one on each
> side, about
> 2/3 of the way forward) that are secured to the headliner by C
> clips - if you
> pull too hard, the posts snap right off, and now you have a real
> problem!!
> It all went pretty well, and pretty quickly thanks to help from digesti.
> Mille grazie.
> Andy
>
>

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