JohnRodriguez - that is inspiring. I need to rig that up this winter for the kids in the back. Heck, even now at night we have been cranking the heat when the roof is off.

 

Yes me too best purchase for jk

 

I see you have a hardtop. Rather than go to all the trouble of running ducting to the back, a better solution is to get a set of Hothead Headliners. The vendor is one of the sponsors here.

The hardtops, which are coated in low-gloss black paint outside & have no internal insulation, transfer a lot of head inside the vehicle. The headliners stick to the inside of the tops & panels & provide significant insulation and internal heat reduction and allow the aircon to work far more efficiently; could solve all your problems for a few hundred bucks...

https://www.jk-forum.com/forums/show...hothead+liners

 

x2 on the Hot Head Liners!

 

I run the softtop during the summer and wait for it to start getting REALLY cool before putting the hardtop on.

 

This is very inspiring. I may have to rig something like this up myself. It's really quite mind boggling as to why we need to think of these things instead of the engineers doing it from the beginning. Back to the fact that it's a Jeep... Blah blah blah.

We bought my wife, wait for it, a minivan back in October of last year. We decided on the new Honda Odyssey. When we were looking at it the sales guy told us that in order to be on the engineering team for the new model, you had to have kids and you had to own a minivan. Great, easy concept for a company. This van has everything and they're in just the right places. Jeep could take note and get a bunch of TRUE Jeepers together to design a great product.

 

Get one of these.



I bought a bikini top for this reason, it helps with the direct sun, but the two middle vents are pointed in their direction, on full blast, with the recirculation button on.

 

Thats kinda how the first TJ Rubicon came about
http://www.jpmagazine.com/featuredve...ory/index.html

 

Had I thought of that in advance I would have taken pictures along the way, but I have never done anything like that before and was afraid I would screw it up. Materials included 3M spray adhesive, 3M double sided automotive tape, headliner upholstrey from a local upholstrey shop, a roll of Reflectix double bubble insulation, I think it was 1/4", maybe a little thicker, foam insualtion board.

I cut a template of the recessed area in the top I was insulating then transferred it to the foam board and reflectix. I used the spray adhesive to join these two pieces and then cut the headliner to wrap and fit one side of the foam board. The reflectix is installed closest to the top. The 3M tape is applied to the top and adheres to the reflectix.

It's a pretty easy and straight forward project. It took me about 4-5 hours to do it with absolutley no experience. If you have a clue about upholstering stuff you could probably cut the time in half. Also, some guys spray paint the inside of the top black before they do the insulation, but I like the way mine came out.

Mine has sat outside for hours in 100+ degree heat and has not sagged or fallen, which leads me to believe that the 3M tape is some bad ass stuff.

 

Oh yeah, and if you still use the XM radio, the reciever/antenna is in the soundbar on the passenger side top under the liner, if you have the top off you can see the bulge where it is. Some people have complained that you will lose reception if you cover it with any type of aluminum insulation. So I did not cover that area with the reflectix and my XM worked just fine when I got done.