one man hard top removal ?
JK Junkie
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 3,130
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From: Highland, Utah
This guy has a youtube video on how to do it by yourself.
Removing a 4 door JK hard top by yourself
No Thanks. I'll ask my neighbor to help me. That's why you have neighbors. Unless you're an ASS and you've pissed off your neighbor. Then I suppose you would have to do it yourself. In that case I suppose you deserve to do it by yourself. Moral of the story? Don't be an ASS to your neighbor and you will get help taking off your hardtop.
Removing a 4 door JK hard top by yourself
No Thanks. I'll ask my neighbor to help me. That's why you have neighbors. Unless you're an ASS and you've pissed off your neighbor. Then I suppose you would have to do it yourself. In that case I suppose you deserve to do it by yourself. Moral of the story? Don't be an ASS to your neighbor and you will get help taking off your hardtop.
JK Enthusiast
Joined: Jul 2008
Posts: 400
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From: Stuttgart, Germany
I had a similar experience as e0987c5t3. The weather was so nice, and I was desperate to take the hardtop off on my Unlimited. No one was around, I don't have a hoist and can't get the Jeep into the garage anyway, so I figured I would go it alone. 
I got it off and eneded up hurting myself in the process, but with no damage to the Jeep or the top. Then I had the problem that it was sitting on the side of the street and I wasn't sure how to get it into the garage. Eventually my neighbor came home and gave me a hand. First and last time I do that alone... until the next time I get impatient.
I got it off and eneded up hurting myself in the process, but with no damage to the Jeep or the top. Then I had the problem that it was sitting on the side of the street and I wasn't sure how to get it into the garage. Eventually my neighbor came home and gave me a hand. First and last time I do that alone... until the next time I get impatient.
JK Freak
Joined: Dec 2008
Posts: 697
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From: ashland ky
to tops not heavy at all. its just ackward, once you do it a couple times by yourself you can do it solo no problem. i'm the same as idle hour, no patience since none of my friends like within 10-15 mins.
JK Newbie
Joined: Dec 2008
Posts: 53
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From: Cleveland, TN
I usually do mine solo. i dont recommend it, but i am impatient. one thing that helps is to have a landing area about the same height as the jeep. The first time i removed it i set it in the driveway and the transition from 3 foot to 0 foot had me hurting for a couple of days. These days I it onto a couple of saw horses.
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JK Super Freak
Joined: Aug 2009
Posts: 1,255
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From: GRANDE PRAIRIE, AB
it would be alot easier if there were some handles you could add to the inside of the roof
JK Enthusiast
Joined: Jan 2009
Posts: 291
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From: Orange County, CA
Hard top removal
I remove mine by myself all the time. Never had help. I set two folding chairs behind my 4dr JK and remove all the fasteners. I sit in the back and press the top up with my hands and scoot my butt to the edge of the back and walk it back to the chairs and gently set it on the chairs using my legs instead of my back. I have a rolling rack I prop i up on. It isn't heavy just awkward and not recommended on a windy day.
JK Newbie
Joined: Oct 2010
Posts: 39
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From: groton, connecticut
Hard top removal
This was not easy, as you can see I pulled the jeep out and the back is much more heavier than the front. No damage to self or jeep. It was easier the last time when I had some help.
JK Super Freak
Joined: Mar 2010
Posts: 1,455
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From: South Lake Tahoe
Originally Posted by scooterferret
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This was not easy, as you can see I pulled the jeep out and the back is much more heavier than the front. No damage to self or jeep. It was easier the last time when I had some help.
This was not easy, as you can see I pulled the jeep out and the back is much more heavier than the front. No damage to self or jeep. It was easier the last time when I had some help.
JK Freak
Joined: Sep 2010
Posts: 567
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From: NE-OH
yes. I use swing hooks in my ceiling joist and two cambuckle straps front to rear and just lift it up and then leave the rear window up and drive right out. Make sure the windshield washer line and electric connector are removed! I always put the buckles in the front so it doesn't drop on the glass. Takes about 15 min total.