Originally Posted by
kingtj
First? I started having an issue where when I put the top back up, the rear window flips down and back into place, but gets stuck at the stage where the metal latch is trying to go all the way down into the slot underneath the middle of the window.
Really sounds like low fluid to me. But it also seems to me someone had a bad latch cylinder at one time, and this was the symptom. Not sure on this one.
the front portion with the handle you grab and turn to lock/unlock it often falls down flat on its own,
This one is easy - unless you are on a hill "nose down" or are moving and hitting the brakes, this should NEVER happen. I do not know the answer here, in the service manual, there is no mention of setting tension anywhere when replacing the top - but it seems to me that either something is not tensioned right, or the springs in the frame are weak/missing.