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I just bought an '81 RX-7 GSL. It's awesome. The choke cable is disconnected/broken, but I'm working on that. Otherwise, great car.

Question is, my car came with both the metal and glass sunroofs (sunrooves?). The metal sunroof seals down real nice against the rubber seal. However, the glass sunroof doesn't quite touch the seal when all the way down. There's about a 1/4" gap between the seal and the glass. Any ideas? Ways I can fix this?

 

I should mention that it doesn't touch at the back. Touching along the front edge just fine. Like it's not pulling down on the way in the back. The lift mechanism works great. It's just it gets to the bottom and the glass doesn't touch.

 

Are you sure it's made of actual glass? It's my understanding that the plexiglass sunroofs are notorious for leaking....

 

I'm pretty confident it's glass. It's real heavy and it sounds like glass when you knock on it.

I'm going to take another look at the hardware today to see if there's any kind of adjustment I can make. Did different year Gen-1s have different shaped glass?

 

I had a similar problem on my '79. After trying all types of makeshift (unsuccessfull) attempts, I finally gave in and bought a new seal from 'Black Dragon' - that solved the problem.

 

Sounds like its an issue with the latch on the glass roof. If the seal works for one it should work for the other. If the hinge plates are not far enough into the holes the latch mechanisms do not line up correctly.