Convertible top goes down but only part way up
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Convertible top goes down but only part way up
Hi all,
I've been searching the archives a bit and I haven't found what I'm experiencing yet.
I put my top up and down a lot and with the (totally awesome) Jag Wrangler key fob thingy and one morning I came out to my garage to find it had not closed the night before.
When I tried to put the top up I could hear the pump running but the top rose quite slowly and gave up about 1/3 to 1/2 of the way up. Then it just sinks back down. I released the petcock, put it up, latched the top, redid the petcock and it goes down normally. So it seems like putting it down is working fine but going up is slow and gives up at halfway or less... I see no obvious signs of leaking anywhere and the reservoir is full of the correct fluid (Petosin). I did top off the top hydraulic reservoir when I first got the car a little but it has not gone down that I can notice in the 2 years since then...
It's a '97 so it's probably still got the original hoses, I suspect, but 97's have the stronger ones which are somewhat less that are likely to green shower, I think.
How should I be trouble shooting this? What should I be checking? Thanks in advance. : )
I've been searching the archives a bit and I haven't found what I'm experiencing yet.
I put my top up and down a lot and with the (totally awesome) Jag Wrangler key fob thingy and one morning I came out to my garage to find it had not closed the night before.
When I tried to put the top up I could hear the pump running but the top rose quite slowly and gave up about 1/3 to 1/2 of the way up. Then it just sinks back down. I released the petcock, put it up, latched the top, redid the petcock and it goes down normally. So it seems like putting it down is working fine but going up is slow and gives up at halfway or less... I see no obvious signs of leaking anywhere and the reservoir is full of the correct fluid (Petosin). I did top off the top hydraulic reservoir when I first got the car a little but it has not gone down that I can notice in the 2 years since then...
It's a '97 so it's probably still got the original hoses, I suspect, but 97's have the stronger ones which are somewhat less that are likely to green shower, I think.
How should I be trouble shooting this? What should I be checking? Thanks in advance. : )
Last edited by Red; 09-18-2018 at 03:34 PM.
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Red (09-18-2018)
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Soft top
Hi all,
I've been searching the archives a bit and I haven't found what I'm experiencing yet.
I put my top up and down a lot and with the (totally awesome) Jag Wrangler key fob thingy and one morning I came out to my garage to find it had not closed the night before.
When I tried to put the top up I could hear the pump running but the top rose quite slowly and gave up about 1/3 to 1/2 of the way up. Then it just sinks back down. I released the petcock, put it up, latched the top, redid the petcock and it goes down normally. So it seems like putting it down is working fine but going up is slow and gives up at halfway or less... I see no obvious signs of leaking anywhere and the reservoir is full of the correct fluid (Petosin). I did top off the top hydraulic reservoir when I first got the car a little but it has not gone down that I can notice in the 2 years since then...
It's a '97 so it's probably still got the original hoses, I suspect, but 97's have the stronger ones which are somewhat less that are likely to green shower, I think.
How should I be trouble shooting this? What should I be checking? Thanks in advance. : )
I've been searching the archives a bit and I haven't found what I'm experiencing yet.
I put my top up and down a lot and with the (totally awesome) Jag Wrangler key fob thingy and one morning I came out to my garage to find it had not closed the night before.
When I tried to put the top up I could hear the pump running but the top rose quite slowly and gave up about 1/3 to 1/2 of the way up. Then it just sinks back down. I released the petcock, put it up, latched the top, redid the petcock and it goes down normally. So it seems like putting it down is working fine but going up is slow and gives up at halfway or less... I see no obvious signs of leaking anywhere and the reservoir is full of the correct fluid (Petosin). I did top off the top hydraulic reservoir when I first got the car a little but it has not gone down that I can notice in the 2 years since then...
It's a '97 so it's probably still got the original hoses, I suspect, but 97's have the stronger ones which are somewhat less that are likely to green shower, I think.
How should I be trouble shooting this? What should I be checking? Thanks in advance. : )
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