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Need to reinstall the glass, which is a PIA from what I remember. Me and a buddy reinstalled this glass into the hardtop when it was repainted the nutmeg color. We did this the night before the Moab National, so it has been a few years since I attempted this operation!!! The seal has an...

Installed the hardtop today, not too much drama, but two minor issues. One, I ended up trimming the front tube seal like so on each side. Two, passenger side, where top sits down on windshield frame, previous tree impacts had bent the metal windshield frame. You can see where the bent metal...

Went ahead and removed the nutmeg colored door applique decals. They peeled off fairly easy. Only a little bit left around the lock cylinders. Will have to remove the lock cylinder and upper piece of weatherstripping from each door to install the new black applique stickers. I am going...

Warm enough in the garage today to install the cowl seal double sided tape. Shouldn't dip much below this temperature over the next two days. Also purchased a heat gun to help me warm things up. Harbor Freight Christmas special deal, worked well. This is the gap I want between the top of...

Too cold to install the 3M tape for the cowl seal. Temperature at application needs to be 65 degrees. It is currently 52 in the unheated garage and will freeze again tonight. Will try later on this week.

Went back into the garage, not happy with the cowl seal to windshield frame seal at all. I was able to remove all of the double sided tape and 3M goop from the cowl seal and windshield frame without damage to either part. I also removed all of the screws from the bottom of the cowl seal...

Not that fast. So, I had to spend some time getting the cowl seal back into place. The addition of the previously missing lower screws helped some. I did not snug these screws down tight, I wanted to be able to pull on the seal without tearing it. Sort of like "hold on loosely but don't let...

Back to the cowl seal. Using blue tape to mark the top edge of the cowl seal. Pulling the front edge of the seal down, all the crap I blew out from around the glass seal fell down here!! Quick measurement, looks like 1/2" should be just shy of the top edge of the seal. I decided to...

And finished with these seals. In a perfect world this would be one continuous long seal. Good luck finding one! This will be way better then the crappy foam I had half ass stuck back here before. This isn't really a water leak spot, more of a noise isolator gasket. But I would assume water...

With the well nut installed and the other three nut inserts tapped out to remove paint, time to install the top to body seals. These seals have double sided tape on one side, BUT since they are so old they don't stick too well. So, I used more of the 3M yellow goop on these seals. Some goop on...

There are four locations in the hard top where bolts secure the top to the bulkhead. On this top, when I first obtained it, 3 of the 4 nut inserts were intact. The nut insert on the outer passenger side was completely missing. I ran around with just 3 of the 4 bolts for years with no issues...

Got some work completed on the hard top and cowl seal today. I bought a CJ7 seal kit off Amazon, mainly just for the front lip seal. The corner seals will not work on this top. Never had a leak at the front corners. I used this goop to glue the seals to the hard top. I had been running a...

Running errands today :christmas:

Chain sawing/bushing hogging/chipping and shredding work down the street. Only an acre so much easier then my four 😆 Putting the red Scrambler to work hauling off the cut up trees to the road, those piece were too big for my chipper. Five loads to the road. No more side jobs until I get the...

I need to use this Jeep tomorrow for some yard work down the road, so I needed to seal up the windshield rubber to frame this morning so it would get 24 hours cure time. I used this stuff, two tubes. Says it sticks to rubber and metal. Not sure if I would recommend this product or not. It...

Temperature was close to 60 today after lunch, won't drop below 50 until tomorrow night. So, good enough weather to put a second coat of white on the inside of the top, and touch up the black around the edges/door openings. I have a few spots around the door openings that are going to need a...

Time to try to fix leak spot number two, of three, on the windshield frame. When the auto glass people installed the windshield glass into the rubber seal, they did not goop the glass to the rubber, even though I requested this. So, when going 65+mph on the highway in heavy rain neat little...

The only area of the cowl seal, interior side, that is a bit of a PIA to keep in position is the 4", either side of the center dashboard to cowl bolt. This is where the seal is cut out for the defrost holes in the windshield frame/cowl. Since there is no steel mesh inside this seal to help keep...

I was not happy with my cowl seal install, so I revisited it. I removed all the screws that hold the seal to the bottom of the windshield frame. My windshield frame holes pull the seal into the wrong position. Probably my fault from 15 years ago when I installed the other seal? So, pulled all...

Thanks! I always run the oem full steel doors. The 1/2 hardtop is way quieter than the Whitco 1/2 soft top I used to run. I usually have both windows down all the way when it is hot out so a bunch of noise at 70+mph. With the windows rolled up more and the vent windows opened it cuts down on...