Hardtop removal, storage, installation photos

Tom, it looks like such a simple solution! And easy too.

Ours has morphed into a living entity. When It is completed, I will tell the whole ugly story. That reminds me, i need to go snap a couple more photos.

Like your site by teh way. I have the throttle return spring, it reminded me that I need to get it mounted!

Kate

My shelf sits on two extra large saw horses, with about the same measurements as yours. Maybe I'm lazier than you are, but I made it level with the back of the Jeep. That way I just slide the hard top off and on.

This reminds me. It's about that time, isn't it?

Earle

Thanks Kate. The site is always under construction and is definitely a "work in progress."

Tom

Yep, just put my soft-top on today.

Tom

One of the best mods I've done:

Give his fog lamp mod a try too, Kate. I did mine last week and it works great. Excellent if you run off-road at night and want serious illumination.

Just don't let Smokie catch ya running both at the same time...heh.

In Ohio, it is legal to run both at the same time. Just be sure to dim your brights for oncoming drivers.

Tom

I was looking at it JD, thought I would give it a go. Here it's ok to run whatever you want to, you don't even have to keep the covers on your upper/offroad lights. Not that I have any right now, OR that I would ever run them on the highway but it was nice to know that if I wanted them uncovered I could do it.

Ah, almost forgot that Kalifornia has the most stupid laws in the nation. Here, the tree-huggers are afraid that small animals or certain flying insects that MAY be on the Endandered Species List could suffer irriversable retinal damage as a result of overly-bright headlights, and that their fragile ecosystem may be harmed due to the resulting increase in heat created by the combined use of high-beam/offroad lighting.

But it's okay if Bambi gets flattened by a drunken Soccer-Mommy in her speeding SUV.

Whatever.

Doesn't it do your heart good when you find the favorite food of the Spotted Owl is the Snail Darter?

According to the Ohio Revised Code below, you can have up to 5 lights illuminated on the front of your vehicle at any one time.

I guess I should install another light :).

Tom

§ 4513.17. Number of lights permitted; direction of beam; flashing, oscillating or rotating lights.

(A) Whenever a motor vehicle equipped with headlights also is equipped with any auxiliary lights or spotlight or any other light on the front thereof projecting a beam of an intensity greater than three hundred candle power, not more than a total of five of any such lights on the front of a vehicle shall be lighted at any one time when the vehicle is upon a highway.

(B) Any lighted light or illuminating device upon a motor vehicle, other than headlights, spotlights, signal lights, or auxiliary driving lights, that projects a beam of light of an intensity greater than three hundred candle power, shall be so directed that no part of the beam will strike the level of the roadway on which the vehicle stands at a distance of more than seventy-five feet from the vehicle

So if I put fog lights on the Tucker I'll be OK in Ohio. :-)

If you mean the Tucker car of yesteryear, with the headlights that turned when you made a turn, then yes. :)

Tom

***waving her hand wildly in the air *** Oh pick me Tom! Pick me!!!!

I think one right in the middle in the front like the Tucker had!

yea yea!!! That's the ticket!! Man I would LOVE to have a Tucker.

Kate

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Ok, consider yourself picked!

Tom

So would have Tucker...

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