donrebyct,
Thanks, I'm very happy with the way it's worked out. We ended up with a full size dinette bed & a king size bed over the rest, so we have plenty of room for sleeping.
$3900 sounds VERY steep with all that is wrong with that one you mentioned.
I wouldn't worry about the electric / hydraulic system, these kinds of systems are used in very heavy work load applications. All the heavy equipment, garbage trucks, tow trucks & snow plows all over the world use hydraulics, it's proven technology. This system is really overkill to lift a pup roof. I guess if it ever failed, you could put in an electric winch or come-along to do the pulling, it would be pretty easy to do.
The small down side I see about the elect/hyd system is, you wont "feel" that you forgot to unlock a roof lock (or two) when you hit the switch to raise the top. I think this is what happened to mine, two cables were snapped on the road side, not one, but two...so I guess it had to happen all at once. I bet the woman that had it unlocked the top on the door side, forgot to unlock the other side and hit the switch to raise the top... The piston did it's thing, the roof locks held and the two cable gave out all at once. Not a big deal to fix, I did it my self after watching a couple guys on youtube fix theirs. **I put a label on the door to remind myself and others to, UNLOCK ALL ROOF LOCKS BEFORE LIFTING ROOF.
