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First off.. welcome to the site!! I too am looking for a hard top, but around here they seem to be worth more than a pile of gold..
New member, YJ
Just wanted to say Hi. I was in the market for a TJ Rubicon but after looking at the prices and condition of the ones for sale I ended up buying a 1994 YJ with the 4.0 and automatic transmission. I have previously owned two YJs, a 1989 with the 4.2, which I hated, and a 1991 with the 4.0, which I loved. Both of those were manuals.
This weekend I'll be changing all the fluids, plugs, wires, cap, and checking and greasing all the suspension/steering components. Anything else I should do that I'm forgetting?
This is also the first Jeep I've owned with a soft top, and already it's annoying me. I'm in the Seattle area and haven't found many hard tops for sale, and none for a price I'd consider reasonable. It almost looks like it would be cheaper for me to buy an 4-cyl YJ with a hard top and hard doors, swap my soft top/half-hard doors, and then sell it again. Any thoughts?
Oh, and some of the hard tops I've seen have rear wipers, rear defrost, and a dome light. I don't think my Jeep has any switches or wiring for that. Any harness that's plug&play or do I just need to wire them all from scratch?
Thanks!
This weekend I'll be changing all the fluids, plugs, wires, cap, and checking and greasing all the suspension/steering components. Anything else I should do that I'm forgetting?
This is also the first Jeep I've owned with a soft top, and already it's annoying me. I'm in the Seattle area and haven't found many hard tops for sale, and none for a price I'd consider reasonable. It almost looks like it would be cheaper for me to buy an 4-cyl YJ with a hard top and hard doors, swap my soft top/half-hard doors, and then sell it again. Any thoughts?
Oh, and some of the hard tops I've seen have rear wipers, rear defrost, and a dome light. I don't think my Jeep has any switches or wiring for that. Any harness that's plug&play or do I just need to wire them all from scratch?
Thanks!
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It's funny. In Phoenix you can't get one for less that $700. In Chicago, I've seen them for as low as $150. Crazy how prices change depending on area.
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welcome to the forum.
Buying a 4cyl for the top? I would think that would be a selling point of that YJ, and you would have a hard time trying to recoup your money to sell a 4cyl with a soft top. But I guess anything is possible.
There isn't a harness that is just plug and play. You would have to start from scratch to make a harness for the hard top. I have a hard top without wiper or defrost, and there isn't any extra wires in the top harness for those items.
Buying a 4cyl for the top? I would think that would be a selling point of that YJ, and you would have a hard time trying to recoup your money to sell a 4cyl with a soft top. But I guess anything is possible.
There isn't a harness that is just plug and play. You would have to start from scratch to make a harness for the hard top. I have a hard top without wiper or defrost, and there isn't any extra wires in the top harness for those items.
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Well, I was thinking say buy an old 4cyl YJ for $3000, take the hard top off, put my soft top on it, and then sell it for $2500. Maybe it's a bad idea. I'm going to keep looking for a couple of months at least before I do that.
Well, I don't have anything to add to what's already been said, so I'll just say . . .
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Ok I am confused?!?! I was not aware that only 4cyl yj's came with hard tops?!?! Guess I was super lucky when I bought mine, 94 i6 with hard top hard doors, soft top half soft doors, and a bikini top
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That's not what I was saying. It's just that the 4 cyls go for a lot less around here. Especially running/resellable.
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Ahh ok, they are not much diff here in mi so yu had me all messed up for a second! Haha
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Believe it or not I paid 1200$ for a hardtop and full steel doors matching paint job though.
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Forgot to mention I'm in Sacramento California.
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Wholly shit!!!! Anyone wanna buy mine? I'll sell hardtop and doors for a grand! Black on black
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I'd do that in a heartbeat if you were closer. I'm in Seattle area, that's like a 35h drive. By the time I pay for gas it'd be cheaper to order a new one!
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Haha for sure
I recently bought an '88 YJ with a hardtop for $2000. 4.2 with auto; I then bought a "bimini" top for $40 and the guy "threw in" a rear cover. My hard-top is tan; the soft top is grey. It'll probably change the whole character of the Jeep. Welcome to the forum.
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That sounds like exactly what I need to do. Buy one for $2k, swap the tops, then sell it for $1500; that's a $500 hard top 
And doors hopefully.
And doors hopefully.
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That's a good deal for a local to pick up. It was hard for me to find black on black doors and top anywhere near Sacramento. Looked for years finally got lucky.
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Oh the whole jeep was an incredible find, everything besides suspension and body has been redone or replaced. A book a mile long of everything done including receipts for oil changes dating back to 1995. A new jasper 4.0 with 30,000 miles now. And it was the first one I went n looked at when I started! Yea very lucky to find it.
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