Moon Roof Issues

[Dazrin]

I found two issues with my moon roof today. The first is that my up/down (not open/close) switch is borked. I can raise the back up but then it will not go down.

I though it would be easy enough to manually close it till I can spend some time on it when I found the second problem. I tried to manually close the roof and NOTHING happened. Per the owner's manual there is a screw, spacers and washer protecting the slot to manually operate the window. (I did have to cut the headliner a little to see the manual screw, but not a big deal there.) I tried to take the screw out and I could not get it to budge. Tried a bigger driver and still nothing. Any thoughts as to what is going on with that? Or better, how to fix it in case it happens again?

For getting the moon roof to seat again: with some testing I was able to determine which wire on the back of that pair of switches is for which function and I jumped the "Down" output to ground (at the light) and it went down just fine. The switch itself needs replaced or at least cleaned but I ran out of time to do that. It should be easy enough when I get time and parts. The more concerning problem is the manual override - if that doesn't work and I get caught in the rain I could be in for a serious drenching.

/Yes I searched but was unable to find this issue.

 

[98 SNAKE EATER]

Had this same issue with my old 91 FJ80

The switch would open the roof just fine, but wouldn't close it.

I had to use a jumper wire across the switch to close it (bad switch)

Went back home to NY for a couple of months and when I came back found out that one of the guys at the shop opened up the roof and didn't know how to close it, so he put shark skin (masking plastic) over the roof and left it outside in the daily Orlando rainstorms

Needless to say, the shark skin didn't hold up and the interior got drenched

As for the manual override, I found that it took A LOT of turning of the screwn in order to move the panel just a smidge

Felt like my hand was gunna fall off using a screwdriver and ended up using a cordless drill the first time around (before I used a jumper wire)

 

[Dazrin]

Yup, bad switch on mine too and just jumped it to close but for the manual part; it isn't that it takes a lot of turning, it is that I CAN'T turn it at all. I started to deform the screw slot but didn't budge the screw. I don't really want to hit it with a lubricant (like PB Blaster) since there are electronics in there and it is inside the vehicle) so I am hoping for some other ideas on how to get the manual override working for an emergency.

 

[Dazrin]

Does anyone know what the part number is for the moon roof switch?

Edit: I ended up getting a new to me switch and just replacing it. Works fine now and I have the old one to play with / clean to see if I can get is working again.