DIY Jeep Wrangler Hardtop Hoist | $78 Walmart Electric Winch 

thanks.. last year I built a "lift system" using straps only; and was not happy. too complicated. Bad I did not see your video before... But hey.. will do it anyway... thanks for the time to put the video and giving some ideas... much appreciated...

Common sense solution. Love it. Guess I have been overthinking it. Also love the straps on the brackets. Great idea!

Nice. I’ve been shopping around for hoists for mine and came across your video. Perfect !!!!! I’m bout to head to Walmart n Lowe’s Right NOW !!!!! Thanks for the step by step bruh

Great video man. A lot of good advice and I will be using a lot of what I learned from you when I build my own lift. I think I'm going to use a couple pulleys and mount the winch on the wall instead but we will see. Thanks for sharing!!!

Great video! I’m looking exactly for this kind of rack. Thank you for sharing it

Great video man. I move to Tennessee next week and the jeep has its own detached garage. This is the first thing going in !! I like that winch, if you don’t have power hooked up anywhere that works perfect.

Very nice! Extremely helpful and I love the thought behind how to attach the straps. Well thought out game plan...except I wish you would have painted the board prior to mounting (as a prior house painter in my earlier days, the cardboard and spray paint made me cringe). Overall, great post and I’ll be using many of your tips as I attempt to mount my own hard top hoist. Much thanks!

Man, that wood overspray would kill ME though! lol. Good work.

Excellent and innovative! Great job !

Great vid, thanks for sharing

Awesome! Thanks for the vid. To me this seems way better than a manual system either way spending the same amount of money!

Nice work Still! Great idea covering up the red wires as well.

Great vid man. LMAO "So seeing these red wires up here is gonna kill me", great idea. going to do similar deal for our jeep. Thanks

Very nice, thanks for the tips!

Great Job with your Idea, Nice

I used to use the rear window hinges like this. Tore one off and had to replace the top as I could not find a way to repair it and have the rear window work properly. I would not recommend using the rear window hinges as a lifting point. It ended up costing me over a thousand dollars to find another used hard top. I do like the 12v winch as that can be connected directly to the jeep's battery as I store my top in the back yard. No electricity back there.

If you kept the top hanging, I'd like to know if the hinges are bent or broke off of the top. I only ask because the hinges are not structural and around half of the weight of the top is being hung from them.

Looks good man congrats

Nicely done ! Thank you

In lieu of connecting to a separate battery in the garage, you could simply connect to the Jeep battery. Still a great solution. 🤟😎

Great video!

Good ideal use it what size tires what type rims on your Jeep please sir thank you appreciate

Very cool, Thanks!

Great simple solution! Since you've been using it, any issues with hooking onto the rear window hinges? I wish Jeep would make a factory connecting point! Great video. Keep it up!

Nice work

excellent!

Well done, sir.

LOL, you painted that board the same way I painted my garage wall.... zero regard for taping and making a mess thinking holding a cardboard box in-hand would give good results :P

Hello. Great tutorial! One question, I noticed you mounted this to a single ceiling joist, any issues with the weight on one joist? Wasn't sure if a single joist could hold the weight of the top plus the winch. Thanks

nice work man this is the best diy setup ive seen. ill def be doing this, cheers.

Just my opinion but do you think the mounting bracket's is the best lifting point for the back end of the top, thats a lot more weight on those four bolts then just the window. I would hate to see the stress cause problems with the operation of the back window. Other than that I think I will be setting up my lift the same, nice video thanks

Genius!

I liked the video because you had to conceal the wires!

New sub. Awesome job man. Doing pretty much the same thing tomorrow.

What's the dimensions on the board and the bolt that lock the board and hoist in place? Is it flushed all the way? Does it leave a gap on the top when mounted?

nice job , cheap, and easy - one question - does the top spin if you leave it hanging?

The straps will eventually bend or destroy your rear glass. Run straps front to back. Good luck

Nice set up. Was thinking bout using your design. Have you considered using a car battery charger to power your winch instead of the battery. That way you can get power from the house.

Looking at the top of the drivers side street you'd set it down, it looked like your strap had left a mark on the top or dented it in? Did it dent it at all?

I see those lanterns and Clorox wipes in the background.. looks familiar lol

I found white colored wire loom on Amazon, 16’ for $12...

Man in 3 years the prices of that winch skyrocketed! 😂

Ima do the same i think. I dont like the idea of the battery cause we have so many jeeps it will run down and my lazy ass wont want to charge it so i think imgonna soldier and extend the leads and hook it straight up to the jeeps battery. Little bit of work to save a little work. And save $$$ on a batter.y. cause i have wire already

Can you still pull your jeep in nose first with the top raised up ?

Hi brother can u plz tell me about alloywheels ur jeep which company

Great video. Its been a couple of months have you had any ruptures or issues picking the hard top from the back window metal hinges like on your video? or have you changed your way of picking it up?

your cable coming out of the winch is cutting into your plastic... needed to be mounted 90 degrees, facing down...but over all nice set up

Nice video. Gotta say that the wheels and tires stole the show! Can I ask what brand and size???

My favorite part was when I turn my volume up to hear him then get ear fucked by his music he has on full tilt during certain parts of the video.

Cool video, man. I was gonna give you some shit about the overspray, but you already know🤣🤣

Can you share the link to the winch from walmart?

Can you post a link for the electric winch? Great tutorial btw! Thanks

You're worried about red wires but that black over spray doesn't drive you nuts? 😂

Still, great solution and sharing your work. I just copied your exactly the same way. It worked great. ibb.co/DRK1NtN I ran into an issue that the cable didn't come down at all. My friend had to forcefully pull it. I may have to put some weight to bring down next time.

This man is black! He goes to lows, he drives a Jeep, he speaks English, he figures out ways to solve his problems on his own, and save money doing it. We have many things in common. But the tv keeps telling me we're so different. I'm so confused.

Cable not going thru the right channel

He worried about a red wire with a bunch of practice holes in the ceiling and black overspray paint all over 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂