Look what the car fairies dropped off. I came out to my car this afternoon and found this on the driver seat!
Wonder if it works. Anyone know how to test it?
Wonder if it works. Anyone know how to test it?
Is this a convertible top motor? According to the color of the wires, I would say yellow and red are power and black is ground. First to find out if black is ground, test to see if there is continuity between the casing and the black wire. I would thing it isn’t isolated. With the black wire always ground the red wire will turn the pump in one direction and then to run the pump in the other direction, yellow and black and red is not used. It would be like a power window motor in this case I would think.
It is indeed a top motor. I had mentioned to several guys in the local club that my top wasn’t powered yet and obviously one of them felt sorry for me. I tried out the wires on the battery- black to ground and touched the others one at a time to the positive post and it spun over. I could tell by the way it jumped that each wire is a different direction. I think I’ll run some lines now into a bucket of fluid and see if it pumps.
That’s cool!
Good for you!
now… make it work!
I already have the switch, relay and wiring and I can probably figure out the plumbing, but I still need both of the hydraulic cylinders. Maybe if I’m good the car fairy will visit again.
Now that top down weather is finally here, I got around to addressing my wife’s chief complaint about my project- it’s too windy. Lots of companies sell wind deflectors for newer convertibles, but at prices that offend my cheapskate sensibilities. So I did some googling around the interwebs and decided to make my own. I went with the clear, solid type mainly because I had a piece of 1/4 inch plexiglass out in the garage, but also because the mesh type would have involved purchasing stuff. In less than an hour I had the plexiglass shaped and sanded. To mount it, I started fabbing some aluminum brackets to mount to those little metal corners at the top, front corner of the interior quarter panels, but then I realized it would block the kids getting in and out. Looking at my work bench I spied a couple of eye-bolts and inspiration struck. I found some neat black knobs at the hardware store and glued on a couple of stainless steel fender washers to serve as scuff plates. Done.
Brilliant! 
Hoping you like/are comfortable with the headrest setting shown, looks like you have some limitations with the deflector in place.
Oh, and “cheapskate sensibilities”, LOVE it! I are one too…
Sorry I can’t get past the whole “too windy” thing. Isn’t that the whole point of a vert?
Looks good. If the kids need in the back do you fold both seats forward or are you just able to slide/move the seat forward to give enough room? Have you had a chance to try it out yet?
I was wondering that, also…forward at the same time, or, unscrew whichever side they get in on. Probably doesn’t take much time to do that.
I just got back from the first highway test drive. It definitely cuts down on the wind that otherwise hits the back of your head. Of course, I cringed every time a dump truck or tractor trailer went by in the other lane, expecting to see it fly off but it stayed perfectly solid. And yes, the eye bolts do allow enough wiggle to tilt one seat forward a bit- it should be just enough for the kids to squeeze through. Of course, I really only expect to use it when my wife is in the car.
so… it comes out to changing it to one big a$$ed sunroof?
cool.
I agree. I see all those high zoot sports cars with the rear windscreen and think to myself… "For WHAT??? So your wig doesn’t blow off ???
However, I DO admire your resourcefulness and ingenuity there Jody, using whatever is laying around. 
Simple… just lift the kids up and over and throw them in the backseat like I do putting the terrors in the back of our Vert. And we don’t have to deal with the windscreen either.
Give it another year or so…they’ll either be to big, or you to decrepit… 
Hey, c’mon, guys, keep in mind this is a daily driver- not a sunny weekend cruiser. That entitles me to add a few creature comforts here and there. But it was really more about making the ride more enjoyable for my wife. How many of you anti-windscreen guys regularly have gorgeous long-haired women in your cars?
I tip my hat to you, sir.
When I was in my late teens, I broke up with a well-stacked girlfriend because she kept complaining about the tear in the roof of my Mustang convertible. Since it was winter in New England she may have had a point, but she still had to go. That’s when I knew I was a true convertible guy.