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10-7-2013
Soft top season is here
The rack pivots out of the way if your going to lift the hardtop straight up and far enough over head to pivot the rack back into position or if you could secure the rack and back the jeep up a little then pivot it back down. What I did was 1. make sure you get the quick disconnects for the front of the rack. 2. I took the two bolts out where it pivots and just lifted the rack off the Jeep with the help of one other person. Then slid the roof off the back, took maybe 5 minutes longer than just removing the hardtop by hand would. I also have a hoist in my garage but would still need to remove the rack first drive into my garage hook up the roof like normal then pull back into the driveway and put the rack on. All that said its so worth the extra 5-10 minutes it takes to mess with. i've hauled all kinds of crap that other wise I wouldn't be able to with the TJ's small storage area. Plus it just looks cool
and one of these days will hold my roof top tent.
10-9-2013
took some pictures after cleaning up the Jeep, had some help with washing it.
Also have the Z in action now, such a fun car to drive. I just need to finish the WJ and then its green TJ and Corvair time
10-22-2013
We use a few body shops for work and I had one of them do it. It's not a cheap Maaco job but isn't a $3k-$5k chip foose type job either. It has some issues here and there I'll deal with one at a time over the years but just walking by it looks 1000 times better than before. Sort of glad it isn't perfect, I won't feel so bad when it gets stone chips or marks from auto-x'ing it. I recently plasti-dipped the wheels. Just as a temporary fix until I buy new wheels and tires for it.
10-26-2013
Completely dropped the soft top for the perfect weather we had on Friday. My daughter loved it and it was very easy to do with the GOBI rack pivoted back and resting on the slightly open tire swing out.
Even fits well in the driveway with the Z
