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62CdnNotch Samba Member
Joined: December 02, 2004 Posts: 86 Location: Ontario Canada
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Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2018 6:52 am Post subject: Thing hard top lift Garage Gator |
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Hey,
Wondering if anyone has any experience with this product. Thinking of a purchase to get the top out of the way.
There is a couple versions and Costco seems to be the cheapest. Maybe a Christmas gift to myself!
https://garagegator.com/products/jeep-roof-lift-kit-220-lb _________________ 1962 Type 3 Notchback
1965 Euro Beetle
1966 Beetle
1972 Westfalia (sold)
1974 Thing |
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sam_w Samba Member
Joined: March 07, 2002 Posts: 1479 Location: Petaluma, CA
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Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2018 3:58 pm Post subject: Re: Thing hard top lift Garage Gator |
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Wow, that looks great, much better than my pulleys.
It looks easy to make oneself with a lift from Harbor Freuight. _________________ 63 singlecab
73 thingster
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63ziggy Samba Member
Joined: June 19, 2005 Posts: 1100 Location: The Woodlands, Texas
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Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2018 6:24 pm Post subject: Re: Thing hard top lift Garage Gator |
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If you are handy, I made a hoist system for my son's LJ Jeep hardtop.
I picked up an electric winch from Harbor Freight. 220lbs single line pull or 440lb double line. 10' of 1" 11g square tubing that I made a t-form (3 s-hooks which hook at 3 points on hardtop - over front door openings and 1 in rear. could easily modify to 4 points as seen in link) and a eye bolt mount on t-bar to connect to the winch cable. I mounted a single pulley from Home depot to a ply plate on the ceiling. The winch is mounted on the wall in the corner.
hopefully makes some sense
the winch is under $100. metal, pulleys, couple straps to secure, dust settled, $150-175 approx easily for complete set up. |
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KAmes Samba Member
Joined: February 16, 2014 Posts: 876 Location: Illinois
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Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2018 6:53 pm Post subject: Re: Thing hard top lift Garage Gator |
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That looks pretty slick. I haven't any experience with those, but I gotta tell my story. I haven't thought about this in years. When I was 17 or 18 my friend attached a hook and pulley to the ceiling of his parents garage in order to lift the top off his FJ40 Land Cruiser. For reasons apparent to teenagers he decided it was important to hoist himself to the ceiling. as I watched he arranged his feet in the loop, declared he was ready and quickly hauled away on the rope. Up went his feet and his body became almost instantly horizontal a few feet off the floor then bam flat on his back. I almost turned purple trying not to laugh at him, I failed. I'm sure I learned some kind of lesson. It did lift the top nicely though. |
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Captain Spalding Samba Member
Joined: February 19, 2005 Posts: 2519 Location: . . . in denial.
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Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2018 3:24 pm Post subject: Re: Thing hard top lift Garage Gator |
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KAmes wrote: |
. . . I gotta tell my story. |
So much similar humor lost in the years before cell phone video . . . |
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62CdnNotch Samba Member
Joined: December 02, 2004 Posts: 86 Location: Ontario Canada
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Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2018 7:23 pm Post subject: Re: Thing hard top lift Garage Gator |
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HAHA, I agree, there is always a funny and more easy way to lift it.. even is its not completely safe. For $350 CDN (on Costco.co) it seems like a great way to lift my top and bicycles. Just thought I would throw it out to everyone as a possibility. _________________ 1962 Type 3 Notchback
1965 Euro Beetle
1966 Beetle
1972 Westfalia (sold)
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hitest Samba Member
Joined: September 30, 2008 Posts: 10296 Location: Prime Meridian, ID
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Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2018 9:11 pm Post subject: Re: Thing hard top lift Garage Gator |
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I think that lift has its place in a garage with a really high ceiling- and if you plan to do one-man top swaps often. I find the folded soft top a bigger PITA than the hardtop! _________________
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I wonder what the nut looks like.
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'62 L390 151, '62 L469 117, '63 L380 113, '64 L87 311, '65 L512 265, '65 L31 SO-42, '66 L360 251, '68 L30k 141, '71 L12 113, '74 ORG 181
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