im not sure how to explain it but i need some help. i got a 91 rs vert theres 2 things needed to drop the top 1. the tonneau switch and 2. the release lever. the problem is the release lever. some piece broke off and i dont know how it looked so i dont know what to do to fix it. not the release lever itself but the part that it conects to under the cover where the back of the hood attaches to it. does anybody have a pic of this or can take a pic of it to show me what it looks like? i hope i explained myself enough for yall to be able to understand me

 

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are u talking about the release lever that lets the tonneau come up or the release that lets the roof come up off the tonneau. some pics would be helpfull to see what your talking about exactly

 

i belive what he is talking about is the wire that comes from the handle that attaches to the key shaped thing under the tonneau if you were to fold the back seat and gently turn the little arm that has a hole where the cable was conected the back of the top will pop up the manual realease cables will lift the tonneau after that if in tact my solenoids stopped working before and i found that the saftey switch that doesn't allow the tonneau to open if the trunk is comes unplugged maybe check that after u check middle switch for power in the trunk below the lift motor behind courtseylight it is a white connector if i remember there is also a wiring diagrahm on here somewhere for all of it

reading ur question again mine just has the wire looping through the little hole in the arm but it's an 88 the weird key shaped thing slides in perpindicular to the arm i believe the key thing is what acually holds top down kinda like a cam lock type of thing for the love of camera i need one bad got alittle carried away above srry

 

Here you go. Here's mine . . .



Note; for those with older ASC a rod system was used instead of the cable style. The set-up was slightly different but the principal is the same.

 

thats exactly what i needed! the end of the cable broke off the part that attaches to the long bar with 3 holes and i didnt know how it all went.
i wanted to put more thank yous but im only allowed 5 thank you!

 

iroctopless - Thanks for posting these photos - When I bought my 'vert last Summer, the latch mechanism was a bunch of parts scattered in the trunk. I found this site, and your pictures, which I printed up and took straight down into the garage. Fixing the latch then took about five minutes. This is a great site.

 

Awesome! It's great to keep us fellow vert owners cruise'n in style!

 

now i even know how mine is supposed to go good deal i head to get a new realease cable neway as the handle is ripped off mine

 

ditto what he said

 

Thanks for the pics also. I have took my assembly apart over 3 years ago and forgot how to put it back together. Its not like we can go to our neighbors and look at their car. LOL I love and hate these oddball cars.

 

On a related note, when I open the tonneau cover these days it doesn't support itself and stay open any more, I have to hold it.

Can anyone shed light on what I can adjust or replace to make it stay open?

Thanks

Bungle

 

The cover should stay up by means of two torsion bars. You can see them criss-crossing near the bottom of my pic . . .


They are a fairly bullet-proof way of making a "spring" to keep the cover up. The only two things I can think of that would make it fail is if one of the bars should break (unlikely) or if one of the ends became unfastened (more likely). They provide lift because one end of each bar is secured to the cover and the other end to the body of the car. The tension (twist) on the bars is greatest with the cover down, thus they naturally want to hold the cover in the up position.
Check the torsion bars and make sure the ends are secure where they should be. They retain their spring-rate pretty good over time and don't normally just fail. Is it possible that a foreign object may have dislodged one of the ends?

 

Iroctopless.. thanks for that will check the condition of the bars. They haven't failed, as in the cover slams down, rather they have become noticably weaker in holding the cover up.

I'll post what i find.

 

Ok had a look at the torsion bars and while they are securely in place, they appear to have been zip-tied together.. sure this must be a bad thing...

 

That does make a person go

Have you tried removing them to see exactly why they might be there?

 

Does anyone have a tonneau latch system like this?? Its from my 88 Iroc vert.

 

You have the earlier rod type system (missing a few parts). ASC later replaced it with a cable operated system.


Here's a good link with more info . . .
https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/conv...eau-cover.html

 

thanks bro just what the 3rd gen vert Doctor ordered!!

 

I really appreciate all the info received from this thread. I was able to fabricate the cable system on my 88's tonneau cover. I totally took out the remaining linkage of the rod system, and implemented the cable in its place. The whole setup was rather easy seeing as i had all the parts necessary to make it work from a spare 91 tonneau i had. Here are the results. Thanks again to all who contributed.

 

Looks good. Great job.

 

That pic looks like you are missing the return spring on the latch?It runs from the hole in th eend of the arm back to the base to bring the latch back to the resting position.

 

This picture

 

Interesting. Have you seen this spring or even better have any pics of this? I have never seen one there. What I have seen the far hole used for is . . .
Part of the older rod linkage system . . .


Or for the cable system . . .


Or some have even modded the lever to add the 2nd hole . . .


But no springs.
My latch works fine and has no issues without it.