Writeups - Top Removal Lift
One man top removal
I've
taken the top off the Bronco by myself before but it's big, awkward and
heavy so I decided to make a lift for easy top removal. I went to the
hardware store and bought a bunch of cables, clamps hooks and a hand
crank winch.
I
started by welding a 1 x 2" piece of rectangular tubing between the
pipes on the covered parking on the side of my house. I drilled the
center hole and put the eye bolt in before I welded it in place.
I
then drilled and installed four more eye bolts for the cables and two
more for the winch cable. I then rand the cables, clamped them together
with clips and put four more eye bolts in the 2x4s as shown.
My
first attempt at harnessing the wires didn't work out so well. I had to
rework it.
OK
that fixed it. This is in the lowered position. All four corners come up
evenly. Without the Bronco top on there I could pull it up by hand.
I had
a problem with one of the cables dong a 180 bend binding and bent two
eye bolts. I had to rework it a little with a couple pulleys.
Half
way up and I had to do a little adjusting to get it level.
A
little $20 Harbor Freight hand cranked winch makes it easy.
All
the way up.
I
tied it down just to be secure.
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