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@James thanks for sharing your great build. Clearly you did so much more than simply put together manufacturer's products: not that this can't at times itself be a major feat. You "home brewed" things too.
It's funny to me that the second sentence of your thread title reads "Hope to give others ideas for their build," because I've been toying with an idea as a result of looking at your build. Right now it's only a pipe (no pun intended) dream that may prove an engineering no no, but here goes.
Like you I enjoy building stuff for my rig. I've been toying in my mind with devising a hard top hoist system that's hitch based, such that if would allow you to take your hard top off at a destination, short of dragging something like a Top Lift Pro with you. There's another product out there (the TopOff) that provides portable top removal/placement but it involves drilling into the hard top and IMHO is relatively slow in its function and need to crank the hard top up from both sides of the rig.
I brain stormed it here https://www.jlwranglerforums.com/forum/threads/cheap-jeep-hacks-show-em-off-here.18785/page-7#post-485270 , am actual working on it, and its not turning out to be that hard so far (I know, famous last words, I'm not done yet.)
Anyway, I know your Gobi rack has ability to allow Freedom Panels to be removed, especially with the inserts you bought from them. But with your tent on, I envision that removal of such panels would be challenging especially in light of the weight on the Gobi rack of your tent precluding tilting it back, or the tent's large footprint allowing the Freedom Panels to be removed by pushing them straight up to the sky.
Then I said, why couldn't the above be repurposed to attach the winch cable to the front of the unlocked Gobi rack, even with the tent and other weight on it, and crank it up enough to at least take the Freedom Panels out, or the Soft Top Down?
...just food for thought. Thanks for sharing.
It's funny to me that the second sentence of your thread title reads "Hope to give others ideas for their build," because I've been toying with an idea as a result of looking at your build. Right now it's only a pipe (no pun intended) dream that may prove an engineering no no, but here goes.
Like you I enjoy building stuff for my rig. I've been toying in my mind with devising a hard top hoist system that's hitch based, such that if would allow you to take your hard top off at a destination, short of dragging something like a Top Lift Pro with you. There's another product out there (the TopOff) that provides portable top removal/placement but it involves drilling into the hard top and IMHO is relatively slow in its function and need to crank the hard top up from both sides of the rig.
I brain stormed it here https://www.jlwranglerforums.com/forum/threads/cheap-jeep-hacks-show-em-off-here.18785/page-7#post-485270 , am actual working on it, and its not turning out to be that hard so far (I know, famous last words, I'm not done yet.)
Anyway, I know your Gobi rack has ability to allow Freedom Panels to be removed, especially with the inserts you bought from them. But with your tent on, I envision that removal of such panels would be challenging especially in light of the weight on the Gobi rack of your tent precluding tilting it back, or the tent's large footprint allowing the Freedom Panels to be removed by pushing them straight up to the sky.
Then I said, why couldn't the above be repurposed to attach the winch cable to the front of the unlocked Gobi rack, even with the tent and other weight on it, and crank it up enough to at least take the Freedom Panels out, or the Soft Top Down?
...just food for thought. Thanks for sharing.
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