Half top sliding windows
06-09-2014, 11:11 AM
#2
JK Junkie
06-09-2014, 12:58 PM
#3
JK Super Freak
Rampage products is the company that made a prototype... but their reasonong for not mass producing uppser sliders is lack of JK's made with half doors...
when the TJ came out half doors were standard and full metal were optional.. so lots of people got stuck with half door jeeps when they wanted full metal.. upper sliders were very popular.. (i had them on my TJs),
the JK is the opposite, most all JK's have full doors.. only a few people bought half doors.. and thus very little interest in upper sliders..
I started work on Fabbing up my own set by using "driver windows" from american and european Superior school buses from the 70s and 80s.. they were a nice solid aluminum framed sliding window, but the weight was too much for use on my fabric half doors (which is where i wanted to use them) so i never finished the project.. and later used my left-side window on my Bus... so i dont even have the parts to finish a single set
-Chris
when the TJ came out half doors were standard and full metal were optional.. so lots of people got stuck with half door jeeps when they wanted full metal.. upper sliders were very popular.. (i had them on my TJs),
the JK is the opposite, most all JK's have full doors.. only a few people bought half doors.. and thus very little interest in upper sliders..
I started work on Fabbing up my own set by using "driver windows" from american and european Superior school buses from the 70s and 80s.. they were a nice solid aluminum framed sliding window, but the weight was too much for use on my fabric half doors (which is where i wanted to use them) so i never finished the project.. and later used my left-side window on my Bus... so i dont even have the parts to finish a single set
-Chris
06-06-2015, 03:05 AM
#4
JK Super Freak
Here's a couple of photos of some prototype slider windows designed to be retrofit into either factory uppers or Bestop uppers. These photos show the prototype frames, the glass isn't in them yet. These are not the Rampage prototypes mentioned in a previous post.
Factory:
Bestop:
Factory:
Bestop:
Last edited by jscherb; 06-06-2015 at 04:04 AM.
06-08-2015, 05:28 AM
#5
JK Super Freak
Here's a couple of photos of some prototype slider windows designed to be retrofit into either factory uppers or Bestop uppers. These photos show the prototype frames, the glass isn't in them yet. These are not the Rampage prototypes mentioned in a previous post.
Factory:
Bestop:
Factory:
Bestop:
arent these the ones that a forum member was mocking up?
