Manual Sunroof-
1974 Road Runner

This is one of those things where it sort of works ok, but you want it to work better. Like many things you have not done before on an old car, you do not want to mess it up, but once you have done it gets easy.
First you need to open your sunroof a few inches, and remove the 4 clips holding your headliner panel to the sliding panel. Since mine was just the panel skeleton with no headliner left, it was even easier.





Then you open the sun roof, leave the headliner forward, pull up in the middle to get it out of the tracks, and remove. It is just for looks and has nothing to do with function. (and since it only has a few fossil remains of headliner was not exactly doing me any good for looks)



Now it is time to mess with the sliding panel. Close it almost all the way.
Look at the front brackets at each side.



Remove the outer bolt. Set it aside. It looks like the back bolts but is longer.



Now just loosen the inner bolt, and twist the bracket out of the tracks towards the middle of the car. Just enough to get out of the tracks and clear the opening is fine.
Do that on each side.

Now look at the back sides of the sliding panel. There is a flex tab there. pull down at the tip, and slide it towards the middle of the car and get it out from under the little roller. There is another bracket there. Just remove the two short bolts from each side. A small T shaped plate will come with them. If you cannot quite reach these well, close the sliding panel a little more.



Now you can remove the sunroof from the car.
No good pics from it, but the area between the roof and pan where the sliding panel goes when opened was full of mud, dirt, pine needles, wasp nests, etc. I spent quite a while cleaning it out.
If you just want to drop the whole pan and assembly, there are speed nuts to do so, and you would have to have the head liner not in and remove the bows.



I don't think you could get the pan out of the car in a RR unless you removed the rear quarter windows and I did not try it.
I planned to show you the cables, etc. but work has already called half a dozen times today, I will probably end up going in, and it is supposed to rain tonight.

I will get to that later. For now I just put it back in.

I also will probably end up dropping the pan sometime. I would really like to hit the roof and pan with rust converter, rust encapsulator, and then chassis black. I may end up just using that frame coating with the 18 inch hose on the nozzle.