Jeep Hardtop Lift Using Racor Heavy Storage Lift
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Jeep Hardtop Lift Using Racor Heavy Storage Lift
After reading for months and months about diy hardtop lifts as well as the break my wallet hardtop lifts from Quadratec or 4WD...... I finally decided to go with using the Racor Heavy Lift PHL-1R. Buying the product was the first challenge I ran into. I'm not sure if the product is being phased out but I tried to buy it several times off of ebay and Amazon only to have my order canceled. Needless to say, I finally found one for sale and when it arrived, it was missing a part. Racor was very helpful however and was able to ship me the missing part within 5 business days. I installed today and the installation took around 4 hours due to some of the modifications I had to make. The replacement pulley arm they sent me was different than the other 3 so I had to modify that to make it fit. I also had to purchase some 2x4's from Lowe's because I had to span my ceiling joists. The instructions for the lift are garbage but it is easy enough to figure out with some trial and error. Overall I am happy with the lift. I would recommend trying this over fabricating your own and definitely over dropping $400 on one from a website. Overall I have about $180 into the build. I've seen some diy lifts for much cheaper than that, but I do not have the tools or fabricating skills to try that route. I would say for a beginner to intermediate level, this project was good.
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Are you strapping the hardtop to the bottom of the lift? Or putting it on the lift. I have been looking at that one for a little while now and haven't pulled the trigger yet. And the $180 included the lift?
Last edited by epleeds; 04-18-2015 at 11:08 AM.
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[QUOTE="madcowtipper23;4087269"]...Buying the product was the first challenge I ran into. I'm not sure if the product is being phased out but I tried to buy it several times off of ebay and Amazon only to have my order canceled. Needless to say, I finally found one for sale... /QUOTE]
So where did you find it? I've been looking for weeks, and everyone seems to be out of stock
So where did you find it? I've been looking for weeks, and everyone seems to be out of stock
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Last edited by 14Sport; 04-18-2015 at 11:49 AM.
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anyone find this stupid thing in-stock somewhere yet?!? Driving me crazy! Ugh! I'm ignoring the $200+ listings for it.. just a rip off. All major retail vendors seem to be perpetually out of stock, but still listing on their sites. Anywhere carry this on the shelf local?
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anyone find this stupid thing in-stock somewhere yet?!? Driving me crazy! Ugh! I'm ignoring the $200+ listings for it.. just a rip off. All major retail vendors seem to be perpetually out of stock, but still listing on their sites. Anywhere carry this on the shelf local?