Video: How To Take Off & Put On A Jeep Soft Top

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Here's a video we made as a how-to guide for removing your Jeep soft top...

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Jeep Soft Tops

We've owned two Jeep Wranglers -- one a 1990 YJ, and one a 2004 TJ.

On the YJ, we simply used the Bestop Supertop (for the front seats) and the Bestop Duster (for the cargo area) during the warmer months of the year. And in the winter, we'd put the hard top on.

With the 2004 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited, we don't have a hard top, so we ride around with the soft top -- either up, or down, or completely off.

Here's our video showing how to remove a Jeep soft top...

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rameh said:

Hello guys,
I am having a hard time with my sunrider top. Whenever I use my sunrider top it flops around after a little driving. I didn't get any straps with it. Am I missing something?

mike said:

is it the same going down and up on a 1990 model? friend just bought one and i am supposed to know it all --the one i had was a 76 in about 83 and i think i had the top on mine twice while i had it --so i have no clue!

Wendy said:

I just purchased a 90 jeep wrangler and he gave me the soft top. It currently has the hard top on. What im trying to find out how to put the soft top on once i get the hard top off.

Deborah said:

I really need more help getting the top back on! Problem seems to be that no matter how hard you push, etc. the top seems to not want to reach the levers behind the sun visors......whew! It's a work out!

Lynnette said:

Deborah (and others having difficulty getting the Jeep soft top back up)...

The first thing that might help is to put the soft top up in 2 steps:

1) Take the soft top from the back tailgate area only 2/3rds of the way up... to the point where the latch pins will lock in. (Remember, the latch pins are above each door/window.)
Securing the latch pins is MUCH easier with 2 people (one at each door/side) -- and even that takes a bit of muscle to get the pins lined up perfectly so they'll actually lock in.


2) For the 2nd step, grab the last 1/3rd of the soft top that hasn't been secured yet, and attach it to the 2 levers under the visors. (But don't do this before securing the latch pins above the doors/windows first.)

Hope that helps some...

Sandy said:

Lynette and Jim, You've done jeep owners a great service posting this video. Its better than the one on the "official" Jeep website. I just purchased an 06 Unlimited and love it. I'm sure I'll be checking out your site frequently for suggestions. I'm thinking of purchasing neoprene seat covers since I live at the beach any suggestions? I'd like to make the Jeep as waterproof as possible similar to the FJ Cruiser with the cargo liners. Thanks Again.

chris said:

The title says putting up and taking down a top. The video is only of it going down. that seems the easy part. the hard part is what to fasten first when lifting it up and the best way for one person to lift the top.

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Photos

  • Pointing to the 2 door hinges on the Jeep Wrangler door.
  • Pointing to the nut found at the bottom of each door hinge on the Jeep Wrangler.
  • The socket wrench and 2 nuts we removed from one Jeep door.
  • Showing how we barely scratched some paint off the nuts that hold the Jeep door on the Wrangler Unlimited.
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  • Notice the black straps that are tightly wrapped around the Jeep's frame and those black bars of the Sundrider soft top.
  • Jim in our Jeep Wrangler Unlimited with the Sunrider top down. Notice the thick bars which act as braces for the soft top itself when it's down.
  • The 2 thick metal clamps that are attached to the Jeep soft top itself and are used to latch onto the Jeep's frame when the soft top is covering the 2 front seats.
  • The rain guards above each window on the Jeep Wrangler Unlimited's soft top.
  • Lynnette riding with the Sunrider top down in the Jeep Wrangler Unlimited.

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