Not sure why you don't get a soft top. I pulled my hardtop off the first day and installed a soft top...
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Exactly, with some padded 2x4 wood spacers to hold it up off the sills (forgot those in original post), and with the front strap having to be laced up and back down over the cage. Keep the strap clean and so far I haven't noticed any paint damage even though it slides over it as you lift.Good idea using those cardboard angle irons. Do you just lift the top slightly and put them in place before running the strap through?
It on the list.Not sure why you don't get a soft top. I pulled my hardtop off the first day and installed a soft top...
Because soft tops look terrible up and worse down.Not sure why you don't get a soft top. I pulled my hardtop off the first day and installed a soft top...
Based on the 105 degree oven I drove home in last night, the AC doesn't keep up with the top off. (wife's idea for the AC, not mine.) Pretty simple heat transfer equation...Roof off twice since March 2022. Comes off at the beginning of summer and goes back on when fall arrives. Resides in the garage all year, and when a roof off road trip occurs, the weather proof vehicle cover comes along just in case it is needed. T handles replaced the bolts and the clam shell hangs from the ceiling with an electric winch from Harbor Freight. The two front panels hang from the garage wall in their specialized bags. The only issue is I really don’t know how well the AC works since during the summer the roof is off. LOL.
Just fyi you can build a rack like that from materials from McMaster car. Love 80/20Thanks for the observations. +1 for the Rockworks. I've had mine off and on 8 times. Attached are my removal/storage system:
I just lowered it. Nothing specialHey in your pick your back window is shut. Mine stays open. How did you get yours to stay shut?
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I like using the sides as the support vs running the straps back through the window. How do you get the top off the truck running the straps in the side-to-side$15 cam straps and 4 of those cardboard corner reinforcements you find in heavy shipping materials. *Feather the trigger* on mini impact with wobbler for the bolts and dont let the anvil strike more than 3-4 times.
Can do comfortably solo in 15-20min. 6'1" in good health and have done about a dozen times with no issues.
It on the list.
Can you put the hard top back on for winter without removing any hardware from the soft top? The videos don't answer that.
Tnx.
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not easily. Need to fully remove softtop and associated hardware before reinstalling the hardtopIt on the list.
Can you put the hard top back on for winter without removing any hardware from the soft top? The videos don't answer that.
Tnx.
See above reply to @timhood So you're hooking to the undersides somehow? Roof is not designed to 'see' a spreading force like that. Not saying it's not strong enough for it, but given known build 'quality' of inglorious MIC top I'm wary of any kind of undue fatigue inducing eventual fractures.I like using the sides as the support vs running the straps back through the window. How do you get the top off the truck running the straps in the side-to-side
direction? I wanted to go that way, but it would require my straps to go through the rollbars, and then I can't lift it all the way because the straps are going through each rollbar.
Exactly, with some padded 2x4 wood spacers to hold it up off the sills (forgot those in original post), and with the front strap having to be laced up and back down over the cage. Keep the strap clean and so far I haven't noticed any paint damage even though it slides over it as you lift.
The Choc. Lab still trumps any and all comments in this thread!!Spot on.
1: I’ve got more composite cuts than I’d like to admit
2: I immediately swapped the torx bolts for GPCA Tbolts. During that initial removal, I musta smacked the window a dozen times.
3: Nope. Not even once.
4: Same here! Too many reports of cracked ledges or broken pins