I have a stock hard top. I bought the Bestop safari top combo that came with the duster, extention and windjammer about two years ago. This was before I knew to come here and really do my homework. Anyway... come to find out the safari top doesn't really look good when you have the doors on because I didn't have the surrounds. The duster didn't seal at the rear because I didn't have the rear bar either.

Flash forward a year and my inlaws ask me what I wanted for Christmas. My wife says door surrounds and rear tailgate bar from Quadratec because she really knew how much that bothered me. Nearly $400 bucks not including shipping for these bad boys. For essentially 4 big hunks of plastic.

I finally get the weather to cooperate and open up the boxes to install the surrounds and they didn't come with any hardware. You have to buy the knobs seperately. So I go back online to Quadratec and find them for $20 bucks each. My guess is that I need 4 of them. Another $80 bucks, just for knobs!!!

No way. There's got to be an alternative. I'll have to try a nut and bolt store because both my local Lowes and Home Depot didn't have anything that long.

Any suggestions?

 

Anyone got any suggestions?

 

ace hardware should be able to het what you need its a pretty big hard ware store also i think napa carrys nuts and bolts

 

ace hardware does have them i think i spent about 5 bucks for 4 bolts and washers and worked perfect i wasnt going to spend 40 plus shipping

 

Okay... there are only 2 ACE hardwares locally. I'll check them out.

 

Went to Ace. Picked up four 4 inch posts and some nuts and wing nuts, screwed them in this morning and it moved the surrounds into the proper position... all for $10 bucks!!! Screw $80 for the Mopar ones!!!

I wanted some knobs instead of wing nuts... but they didn't have any... however since I'm only putting the safari top on once or twice a year, it's not bad.

Thanks for your help!!!

 

Good.......the Mopar knobs suck anyway. The first time I tried to remove the surrounds on mine, two of the four knobs stripped out and I had to remove the shafts with a pair of vise grips. This was the VERY first time they had ever been touched. I ended up filling the knobs with some epoxy, heating the shafts with a torch and reassembling them. I have since had to do the same with the other two as well. They stripped out when removing them on a hot day. After the heat and epoxy, they are holding together fine. They are a stupid design and I think you made the right choice of hitting up the hardware store instead

 

i was going to suggest finding jeep junkyards and calling them


daveysjeeps.com usually has odd things like this

 

On mine the knobs seperated from the shaft of the stud i think it cost me 4 bucks in stainless bolts and washers from the hardware store

 

Are you guys referring to the knobs that you use to connect the plastic window/door frames when putitng the soft top on?

If so, there are two types of knobs.... one is longer (maybe 2"?) and the other is shorter (about an inch). I currently only have 2 long and 1 short, so I believe I am missing just one of the short ones. Can anyone confirm? I currently have my hard top on and will be putting the soft top on in a few weeks. If I am just missing the short knob, can someone let me know the part number and where I can get one cheap?

Thanks!