Garvin Wilderness Adventure Rack - Easy to rotate back for soft top?
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Checking out the Garvin rack versus the Kongo Cage. I can see the Kongo Cage looks very straightforward to tilt back to put down a soft top. Does anyone have experience with the Garvin rack? It shows an ample pivot point, but I have not been able to find out if you have to remove and re-install screws to lower your soft-top. I like being able to lower on the fly. Happy for opinions.
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FYI...spoke to a guy recently who stated he did a lot of research on racks prior to purchasing one and was told the Garvin rattled a lot. He had one where the name also started with a G (gigo? gygo?...something like that) looked like the Garvin, even had the ladder in the back I believe and tilted back as well.
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This is interesting. I saw that you had a few photos with 4 installed crossbars. I would assume that these need to come off before you are putting the top down. Can you leave them off full time? Any worries about water getting in the holes and it rusting from the inside-out? Also, was there much drilling required to install it?
The thing looks bulletproof though. One last question. What is the total height of the rack. One bitch of modifying my Jeep is that I park in a garage with a 6'6" clearance. Thus, I have to be careful about how high things are.
Thanks for the detail though - of course now you have made my decision harder
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FYI...spoke to a guy recently who stated he did a lot of research on racks prior to purchasing one and was told the Garvin rattled a lot. He had one where the name also started with a G (gigo? gygo?...something like that) looked like the Garvin, even had the ladder in the back I believe and tilted back as well.
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I have a Kongo cage love it it's high enough on my two door were I don't have to pull it up to put the soft top up and Down
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Bill,
This is interesting. I saw that you had a few photos with 4 installed crossbars. I would assume that these need to come off before you are putting the top down. Can you leave them off full time? Any worries about water getting in the holes and it rusting from the inside-out? Also, was there much drilling required to install it?
The thing looks bulletproof though. One last question. What is the total height of the rack. One bitch of modifying my Jeep is that I park in a garage with a 6'6" clearance. Thus, I have to be careful about how high things are.
Thanks for the detail though - of course now you have made my decision harder![doh](https://www.jk-forum.com/forums/images/smilies/doh.gif)
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This is interesting. I saw that you had a few photos with 4 installed crossbars. I would assume that these need to come off before you are putting the top down. Can you leave them off full time? Any worries about water getting in the holes and it rusting from the inside-out? Also, was there much drilling required to install it?
The thing looks bulletproof though. One last question. What is the total height of the rack. One bitch of modifying my Jeep is that I park in a garage with a 6'6" clearance. Thus, I have to be careful about how high things are.
Thanks for the detail though - of course now you have made my decision harder
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No drilling required IF you get an aftermarket bumper that is compatible, Otherwise you need to drill the plastic in your rear bumper. The beuty is with a new bumper and the rack you're still cheaper than the Garvin. Any bumper that A)doesn't wrap around to the rear fenders and b) shares the bolt holes for the rear frame is Good. I believe the Body armor bumper works fine and is $300 ish.
There are holes on the bottom as well as top ( not dead bottom though) but water would drain down the tubes to the front and back vertical supports if it did. I can honestly say I've never even considered it 'holding water' I can't imagine that it would.