kazilbash

Where can I get a transparent hard top for my 2014 Wrangler Unlimited Sports.

I heard CLEARLIDZ make something like this in Ontario but have not started its production for 2014.

Any advise will be appreciated.

Hasan
Pakistan

tjkamp

There used to be a company that added glass panels to existing freedom panels, you sent in yours, and they sent you a set they had already finished, but I haven't heard anything about them in a long time.

Quadratec used to also have something along those lines, but I haven't seen anything in their catalog in a while. Not sure if anyone is making them currently.

4wheels4life

Try here, https://jeetop.com/ out of my league for sure. Pricey but they do look cool.

akpostal

JScherb had the Freedom Top sunroof as a DIY idea. It's on here somewhere.

jscherb

Skippman

OH
MY
GOD

That sir, is just amazing! I'm afraid to ask how much that even cost you. Are the seals on the moon roofs good or have you had any leading?

jscherb

The seals on the Freedom Panel openable skylights are well-proven automotive seals of the type used in flip-out windows on minivans and pickup crew cabs. The seals in the main hardtop skylights are also well-proven window-gasket seals very commonly used in automotive and marine applications (like the windshield of a Jeep CJ-7). Everything follows automotive best practices.

Being a DIY project, the cost wasn't very high - the most expensive part is getting tempered glass panels made, but that's something many automotive glass shops can do or arrange to have done. The glass in the Freedom Panels didn't actually cost me anything though, I had an RV glass manufacturer do the tempered glass for me as prototypes for a possible production product so they didn't charge me. In reasonable quantities (25 pieces of glass), they can be manufactured for about $20 each.

At this point the skylights in the main hardtop are plexiglass, although they should be replaced with tempered glass (or laminated safety glass) as well because plexiglass will be affected by UV from the sun and will also scratch. I'd expect to pay about $50-60 each when I have an automotive glass place make a pair of them for me, but they would cost about $20 each in small manufacturing quantities.

Skippman

I'm assuming you did this with either a jigsaw or a rotozip? Was any reinforcement of the hard top required? I am unfamiliar with how the interior of the panels are supported, ie if there's some honeycomb or other structural bracing internal to the top. Was this something you did as a one-off proof of concept?

jscherb

I made these as prototypes of a potential production product for a Jeep accessories company.

Best practice for cutting fiberglass is to do it with abrasive tools. I did the main cutting with a 1/16"-thick abrasive disk in a 4 1/2" angle grinder and the corners with a 1 5/8" diamond cutting disk in a air die grinder.

Anywhere the inner and outer shells don't touch in a factory hardtop is air; there's nothing inside.

Cutting the skylight holes in the main hardtop is pretty straightforward as long as you cut on the flat surfaces between the raised ribs. The ribs can't be avoided when the holes are made in the Freedom panels, so a little fiberglass work is required to flatten out the edge of the hole so the gaskets can lay flat and seal properly:



No reinforcement of the hardtop was required.

J. Dub

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