Hardtop modifications for easy removal?

[RnrdTheFox]

When I take my top off, I have a hell of a time with the rear post hanging in the holes in the rear quarters. There is an edge with a little bit of a hump that causes much fo the problem, so I'm going to shave it off. Any other tricks that others have come up with?

I would like to make it easy to get on and off since it's all getting a nice new paint job and scratching it all up every time I pull it off and or put it on will just piss me off to no end. Sometimes I wish I were in a warmer climate, then I wouldn't worry about a top and just go topless. Thanks.

 

[supercoupe5]

hardtop posts

not meaning to hi-jack your post but i was wondering the same thing and also how important those rear posts are. what would happen if you did not use them with the top

 

[behemoth]

I cut the posts off flush at the bottom of the hardtop on mine. The kids truck never had them. I installed nut serts in all of the bedrail and winshield frame holes so that I did not have to tear the whole interior out to remove the top. The nutsert idea is off of broncofix.

I lift mine up and stick 4 small 2x4s under it to give me and the helpers a place to hold onto. It also gets it up over the wiper motor which usually gets in the way.

 

[73stallion]

if you don't have the posts in the top, there's no place to bolt your rear hatch supports to. the bolts thread into the posts.

i second the nutzert idea.

 

[71 SPORT]

I installed nut serts in all of the hardtop holes so that I did not have to tear the

Do You Have Pics Of These Nuts You Installed? Did You Weld Them In?

 

[behemoth]

Here is the link to the nutsert

http://www.broncofix.com/Tech/nut/nuts.jpg

On the hardtop with out the corner posts, I installed more nutserts so I could attach the liftgate hardware.

Bill

 

[flint_knapper]

serts will work fine for the top. When I ran a hard top
I also used some knurled headed bolts so I could remove
them with no tools.

 

[eb66to77]

Here is the link to the nutsert

http://www.broncofix.com/Tech/nut/nuts.jpg

On the hardtop with out the corner posts, I installed more nutserts so I could attach the liftgate hardware.

Bill

http://www.broncofix.com/Tech/nut/nut.htm <-Try this link. The one you posted just goes to a page with the word "NUTS" on it. Funny as hell though. ;D

 

[thegreatjustino]

http://www.broncofix.com/Tech/nut/nut.htm <-Try this link. The one you posted just goes to a page with the word "NUTS" on it. Funny as hell though. ;D

Had to click that one to see it for myself ;D