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zook soft top + roof spotties

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zook soft top + roof spotties

Post by chunkz »

gday there
was just wondering who has a soft top zook
and has a bunch of spot lights on the roof?

i saw one on ebay but the guy didnt help me out with it...

i have a big ugly roof rack that you all may have seen
but id like to take that off and replace it with one bar...

any pictures/help will be good thanks
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Post by derelict_frog »

Do soft tops have the gutters on the side of the roof at the top?

Because thats all the hardtop ones use to bolt roof racks onto.

Upon checking out a few in my pic collection it seems the fabric roof bit joins onto there, so if u didnt want to take the roof off often surley u could just clamp them down over the bit of material?
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Post by chunkz »

i was thinking of that before...
but yeh was looking to see if any one else had ideas?
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Post by Pinball »

Thought of fabbing something to hang off the "horns" your hood lays back on?

Mind you... i wouldn't guarantee the longavity if you like to throw your rig about...

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Post by Mudzuki »

I have the resin top, i used L brackets mounted to the screw on the targa bar in the doors and fabbed it up, works great :D
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Post by KCZ00K »

On my last Zook, I had a bar made up to screw str8 in to the horns holes then 2 rubber bumps on the front to support the bonnet when it was up. It held 4 little lights and I fed the wiring under the soft top, down around the window and behind the dash.
However, my brother had a similar mod on his with lights above the window and a nice police man defected him for it (and other things) because of some light height restriction law. (Above a certain height they are illegal apparently but it is so common) Im sure someone out there knows the correct legislation.....
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Post by Damo »

Mark from Suziworx had a pretty good setup on the mud4b. He had a roll bar in the back that was as high as the soft top. He had holes in the soft top that the light bolted through. I'm not sure how he sealed it, hopefully he'll chime in here. It looked schmick, but would prolly make taking the soft top off a bit of a PITA.
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Post by Pinball »

KCZ00K wrote:On my last Zook, I had a bar made up to screw str8 in to the horns holes then 2 rubber bumps on the front to support the bonnet when it was up. It held 4 little lights and I fed the wiring under the soft top, down around the window and behind the dash.
However, my brother had a similar mod on his with lights above the window and a nice police man defected him for it (and other things) because of some light height restriction law. (Above a certain height they are illegal apparently but it is so common) Im sure someone out there knows the correct legislation.....
yep it's illegal.... but then Jeep brought in that little hardtop with the light bar from the factory, took em some fighting but they got it past ADR.

I believe if you have the solid covers on then you're ok as they are non functional, other option is the lay down setups similar to what the big Patrols are runnin in competition.

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Post by grimbo »

Pinball wrote:Thought of fabbing something to hang off the "horns" your hood lays back on?

Mind you... i wouldn't guarantee the longavity if you like to throw your rig about...

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my brothers Zook used to do this and never had any problems. I also have spotlights attached in a similar position on my exo. I have gotten arounf the legality issue by having a disconnect in the wiring so they aren't hooked up on road but can be easily connected for offroad use. They have passed rwc and police checks without any problems
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Post by sierrajim »

grimbo wrote:They have passed rwc and police checks without any problems
Now that's saying something :lol:
[quote="Harb"]Well I'm guessing that they didn't think everyone would carry on like a big bunch of sooky girls over it like they have........[/quote]
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