Soft Top Window Storage (NOT bag)

[S2k Chris]

I take my soft top windows off a lot and leave them in my garage for several days at a time. I leave them laying flat(ish) on my workbench but this isn’t a great solution. I have the Mopar soft top storage bag but it’s annoying to use, and as a result I almost never do except when I store the ST for the winter.

I was thinking of trying to find some channels like are on the soft top itself that I could nail/staple/attach to my garage rafters to slide the windows into so they could hang freely in my garage. Anyone done this? Anyone have a source for something like the soft top channels?

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[Willys4Me]

Quadratec has this Soft Top Hanger. Not Cheap...but uses the same idea that you mention and provides a hanger for the entire Soft Top/Windows.

 

[Yzfguy]

So far, I kinda like storing them in the bag. They are protected, and ya can just hang the whole bag on the wall out of the way.

 

[S2k Chris]

Interesting. They hang the windows from the plastic flap and not the channel thing. I bet that’s easier to mock up using just a few or those clips you can buy from a hardware store. I’ll try this out. Thanks!

something like this:

 

[S2k Chris]

So far, I kinda like storing them in the bag. They are protected, and ya can just hang the whole bag on the wall out of the way.

I’ve found that unless you have a place to lay the bag flat, it doesn’t work well. So I have to clear myself a big flat place to do it, which means that I never actually do it.

 

[Yzfguy]

I’ve found that unless you have a place to lay the bag flat, it doesn’t work well. So I have to clear myself a big flat place to do it, which means that I never actually do it.

Gotcha. Sorry, I see you said "not bag". I usually have my windows strapped in behind the back seat, but use two hooks on the wall to attack the two straps on the bag that would be around the headrests to support it.
Following this thread to see other ideas.

 

[CrimsonGhost]

Probably doesn't work for you, but my hard top is where I keep my soft top window bag... It makes a nice garage table.

 

[S2k Chris]

Probably doesn't work for you, but my hard top is where I keep my soft top window bag... It makes a nice garage table.

Sounds like your garage is a lot bigger and/or less cluttered than mine. My HT rests vertically on the DIY HT stand I made from plans on here. You can kinda see it in the back corner of this pic.

 

[Cutterone]

I use the box the windows came in, if you still have it. Store the box under the HT which is sitting on a scaffold in the corner of the garage...

 

[jaardappel]

I take my soft top windows off a lot and leave them in my garage for several days at a time. I leave them laying flat(ish) on my workbench but this isn’t a great solution. I have the Mopar soft top storage bag but it’s annoying to use, and as a result I almost never do except when I store the ST for the winter.

I was thinking of trying to find some channels like are on the soft top itself that I could nail/staple/attach to my garage rafters to slide the windows into so they could hang freely in my garage. Anyone done this? Anyone have a source for something like the soft top channels?

This might sound a bit ridiculous, but I wonder if you glued some magnet strips to a 2x2 running head-height along a wall and used earth magnets on the twill....if you could hang them? I use my soft-bag usually, last week I placed them (clean) on my kitchen table while I wheeled around the city for a bunch of errands and when I came back the tiniest indentation left a lasting imprint on one of my quarter panels. I gotta be more careful too. I think the earth magnets and magnet strip on a 2x2 to hang them might work. I dunno. Might be crazy too. Jury is still out on that.

 

[CrimsonGhost]

Sounds like your garage is a lot bigger and/or less cluttered than mine. My HT rests vertically on the DIY HT stand I made from plans on here. You can kinda see it in the back corner of this pic.

My garage isn't tall enough for my Jeep with the soft top on. It "may" fit with top down, since my WK2 fit in there. All they needed was 2 more layers of block when my house was built in 1960.

 

[Fudster]

I take my soft top windows off a lot and leave them in my garage for several days at a time. I leave them laying flat(ish) on my workbench but this isn’t a great solution. I have the Mopar soft top storage bag but it’s annoying to use, and as a result I almost never do except when I store the ST for the winter.

I was thinking of trying to find some channels like are on the soft top itself that I could nail/staple/attach to my garage rafters to slide the windows into so they could hang freely in my garage. Anyone done this? Anyone have a source for something like the soft top channels?

https://www.jlwranglerforums.com/fo...on-the-jl-soft-top-windows.59223/post-1531487

https://www.jlwranglerforums.com/fo...on-the-jl-soft-top-windows.59223/post-1552068

 

[S2k Chris]

https://www.jlwranglerforums.com/fo...on-the-jl-soft-top-windows.59223/post-1531487

https://www.jlwranglerforums.com/fo...on-the-jl-soft-top-windows.59223/post-1552068

Thanks, I tried searching and came up with a zillion posts referencing the soft top bag (hence my title). Appreciate these.

 

[jaardappel]

My garage isn't tall enough for my Jeep with the soft top on. It "may" fit with top down, since my WK2 fit in there. All they needed was 2 more layers of block when my house was built in 1960.

"Welp, that's it then, time to renovate the garage honey." hahaha. Semi-kidding.

 

[S2k Chris]

So I rigged something up that I think works just fine.

$6 worth of storm window brackets. Added in some screws I had laying around.

Screw into rafters.

Great success. Excuse my disaster of a garage.

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