Barn Door for JK factory hardtops
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precision powder
Backwoods Explorer
Oh man...if you can make a 2dr camper/tent top I would be highly interested! The ursa minor always had my interest but they only do a 4dr top, which is worthless to me. A 2 door has plenty of room for an average sized person to lay down in. I am excited to see more pictures. Possible to make the top lift straight up? Rather than tip?
jscherb
Expedition Leader
I do have a design for a camper/tent top that works on the 2-dr JK, I'm just finishing up a drawing to explain it. Hopefully will get it posted tomorrow.
precision powder
Backwoods Explorer
Awesome, thank you sir
jscherb
Expedition Leader
Over the weekend I was doing some design work on the JK Safari tilt-top camper design, and I ran acoss these photos of a concept camper that AEV built in the early days of the JK. AEV showed it at SEMA 2006, and it was at Moab in 2007, but I can't find out much more about it.
I found this interesting because the design work I was doing involves putting the pop-up on top of the factory hardtop. Yesterday I posted drawings of a Safari Cab pop-up roof, and I said I was working on another version that was form-fitted to the factory hardtop. This AEV unit seems to sit on the factory hardtop, and doesn't seem to have much structure protecting the roof - I wonder if that's why it never went to production? The design I've been working on has a bottom-half "clamshell" that sits on the roof and takes the load off the hardtop.
If anyone knows any more about this AEV concept, I'd love to hear about it.
I'll post my design drawings for the factory hardtop clamshell tilt-top shortly, I've got just a few measurements I want to verify.
I found this interesting because the design work I was doing involves putting the pop-up on top of the factory hardtop. Yesterday I posted drawings of a Safari Cab pop-up roof, and I said I was working on another version that was form-fitted to the factory hardtop. This AEV unit seems to sit on the factory hardtop, and doesn't seem to have much structure protecting the roof - I wonder if that's why it never went to production? The design I've been working on has a bottom-half "clamshell" that sits on the roof and takes the load off the hardtop.
If anyone knows any more about this AEV concept, I'd love to hear about it.
I'll post my design drawings for the factory hardtop clamshell tilt-top shortly, I've got just a few measurements I want to verify.
jscherb
Expedition Leader
jscherb
Expedition Leader
The Safari Cab roof panel could also be used as the top half of a clamshell tent to go on top of a factory hardtop. The AEV example I posted earlier looks like the bedding sits directly on the hardtop, or perhaps on a very thin platform, but I think it would be better to have a little more substantial platform to protect the factory hardtop roof from stress. The bottom half of the clamshell would only be a few inches thick, and it would be form-fitted to the roof, so when it's installed it would look like an extension of the roof. And unlike something like the Ursa Minor, it's removable, leaving the factory hardtop in place.
Installed and closed, the clamshell bottom adds a few inches the the overall height.
Open.
And because of the clamshell bottom, it could also be installed on a 2-dr, overhanging on the front, might have a bit of an EarthRoamer look, those also overhang in the front.
Installed and closed, the clamshell bottom adds a few inches the the overall height.
Open.
And because of the clamshell bottom, it could also be installed on a 2-dr, overhanging on the front, might have a bit of an EarthRoamer look, those also overhang in the front.
jscherb
Expedition Leader
perfect 10 is all i say... add "invisible" reinforcement to cope with the load comparable to the AEV roof rack or the new RR rack and this is all one needs
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Reinforcements in the roof, including mount-through points for roof racks to tie them to the roll bars are definitely part of the design.
4Rescue
Expedition Leader
jscherb
Expedition Leader
The Safari Cab on the LJ makes a pretty good facsimile of the J8 (painting it olive drab instead of black would be perfect)...
The JK Safari Cab would do the same thing for the JKU, except it would be 4dr. To turn the JKU into a proper J8, filler panels for the rear door openings to turn it into a 2dr would be a good idea.
I've been busy the past month and a half just wanted to give everyone a sneak peek of the assembled ModuluS barn door support.
I had a bit of a snafu with some hardware from the manufacturer but we got it resolved and I received it today.
So here it is, still have to finish installing the final screws but so far everything fits well. This has 3 molle packs installed on the left with two attached to the frame and one on the front of the top pack.
I had a bit of a snafu with some hardware from the manufacturer but we got it resolved and I received it today.
So here it is, still have to finish installing the final screws but so far everything fits well. This has 3 molle packs installed on the left with two attached to the frame and one on the front of the top pack.