Just went to car wash and popped the hatch to put the ttops in before washing. motor lifted hatch just fine. i got done putting ttops in bag and went to shut it and the motor is not pulling the hatch down at all. no sound no nothing. any simple solutions i should check first?

Thanks
Tim

 

Sounds like your motor finally crapped out on you. The one on my '91 crapped out in the up position as well. I dealt with it this way for awhile and then got tired of water leaking into the hatch. I unplugged the connector to the motor and then plugged it back in and when I did the motor went back down but it still doesn't work. Now it won't go back up no matter what I try and that's fine by me as long as it's still in the down position so the hatch doesn't leak. Ironically, the hatch motor on my '86 TA is 100% factory original and is still working to this day. It's getting swapped out with the '91 soon since I drive the '91 more.