How long Rock Hard sport cage?
05-05-2009, 01:54 PM
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So how long did it take you??
I did mine the (whole) Easter weekend. IMHO, it took:
1. Opening, Cleaning the parts, tapping out all 36 holes (some twice), cleaning the cutting oil, calling around to find matching paint (at NAPA), buying paint and primer, hanging hooks in my garage for parts and rigging the wires to hang them, priming and painting (4 - 6 coats) - about 8 hours (did before Easter).
2. Taking the hard top off (including trimming my custom rear shelf), taking doors off, taking off the visors and plastic trim .... reinstalling hardtop, tapping out the bad nut on the body mount, reinstalling the doors, fighting with a door nut that won't go back on (1 seems to hold OK) - About 8 hours.
3. Actually installing the bars, including drilling out the door jams (1.5 hours) - about 4 hours.
4. Trimming and reinstalling the plastic trim on sides and cloth cover, installing foam covers on new cage bars, heating, pounding and filing out the roof panels which hit on the roof cross-bar collars, installing visors - about 4 hours.
That said, I do like the new cage, and would do it again.
I did mine the (whole) Easter weekend. IMHO, it took:
1. Opening, Cleaning the parts, tapping out all 36 holes (some twice), cleaning the cutting oil, calling around to find matching paint (at NAPA), buying paint and primer, hanging hooks in my garage for parts and rigging the wires to hang them, priming and painting (4 - 6 coats) - about 8 hours (did before Easter).
2. Taking the hard top off (including trimming my custom rear shelf), taking doors off, taking off the visors and plastic trim .... reinstalling hardtop, tapping out the bad nut on the body mount, reinstalling the doors, fighting with a door nut that won't go back on (1 seems to hold OK) - About 8 hours.
3. Actually installing the bars, including drilling out the door jams (1.5 hours) - about 4 hours.
4. Trimming and reinstalling the plastic trim on sides and cloth cover, installing foam covers on new cage bars, heating, pounding and filing out the roof panels which hit on the roof cross-bar collars, installing visors - about 4 hours.
That said, I do like the new cage, and would do it again.
Close to Bogger, but another day for the rear overhead and wiring/relays/switchboard foam covers--about 3 days, off and on
JIMBO