Hooke Road for Jeep Top Storage Hard Top Carrier Sliding Cart Rack for 1987-2025 Jeep Wrangler YJ TJ JK JL

My garage isn’t tall enough for a hoist system for my Wrangler hard top, so I needed another way to store it and move it around if needed. This is a nice solution.I removed the top myself by lining up a table behind my Wrangler and sliding the top off onto the table. It’s a little tricky because the top can slide off the the sides while you’re doing this. It’s certainly advisable to do this with two people.Once the top was on the table, I slid it onto this stand and was easily able to move it where I wanted.The trick is to get the edge of the top on either side of the rear window into the lip of the stand.If the top is already on the ground, it’s way easier to just put the stand on the back of the top and then pull the top towards you while you’re standing at the rear of the top.Anyway, this is a pretty decent stand for the Wrangler top.

Holds Jeep top perfectly.

Thoughts:My main concern is that over time using it, I have had to touch up the corners of paint on my roof that make contact with the foam resting areas of the rack. Hindsight being 20/20, I would have suggested more substantial foam support to perhaps prevent this sort of thing a little better. This isn't the end of the world for me due to the price, and due to those parts of the vehicle being very 'invisible' to the eye for most people. I'm six feet tall and I have a difficult time seeing where I had to touch up the corners. I used the oem black Mopar touch up paint that Mopar / Jeep sent me as a gift...Assembly:To combat the issues with fitting the tubes together, I used a rubber mallet I had laying around to gently tap them together. I honestly didn't care about that because for the price I knew I'd be dealing with perhaps a more difficult assembly. I think it might have chipped the powder coat a little on the edge of the tube too when doing this, but I suppose it doesn't matter since that edge isn't exposed, being inserted within the other tube.Final Thoughts:Overall, it's pretty nice for the price and relatively easy to assemble and use. I'd expect to keep some touch up paint available if you use something like this as opposed to a much more expensive solution like the chains for instance that hang your top from the roof of your garage. I would not suggest this if you had a glossy painted top, because this would definitely rough up the clear coat. I have a 4 door JL '21 with a standard black top with no clear coat. I think this product is perfect for that style roof.

I have a 2016 JKU and like many who have posted here, the instructions that come with this are quite a bit confusing. First off, I was missing the locking washers in the parts bag, BUT they did give me two sets of the tool set so....I guess that makes up!? Either way, if you didn't get the locking washers, makes sure you get some, I ended up going with a second set of washers and then locking washers that I already had in my parts drawers.When it comes to the inner and outer holes an alignment this is pretty confusing. There are holes on the top off the center shaft and holes on the bottom of the shaft and they are offset. The inner and outer terms are referring to the which direction the center hoop is facing. For the JK and JKUs (and the assuming JL as well) you wan the hoop to be leaning in towards the center of the open C shape of the put together carrier. Then assuming have the hoop leaning the other direction for the older Wranglers.The instructions have ZERO indication of which set of holes to use on either side when attaching to the outside leg pieces. There are three sets of holes, so three widths you can use. I went for the widest of the three to give the cart the widest footprint. Provide two pictures showing how my hard top sits on each of the front pads, which are flat but the top is curved on the corner. Ideally each side would move in about 1/4" to 1/2" to not be so close to the curve going vertical where it will hit the metal lip. Its okay for now but I did think about taking the top off the carrier and moving ONE side to the second hole, couldn't match both sides or it would too narrow and in to the glass liftgate area. But maybe moving one to the two, while the hoop would not be in the exact center of the upper top above the glass, maybe the curves would be further away from the hook edge of the resting plate.Certainly have seen other carriers for more money, but at the cost of this one did expect a bit better then it is but it will do the job its suppose to do and just sit there and support my top just fine.

It's very light with good casters. One person can move it around without any issue.I had to file off a little powder coating to get it assembled, but it otherwise went together easily.The hardtop from my 94 YJ fits perfectly, with the wiper just clearing the support.

Screw holes have giant burrs in them and the pipes cannot be joined together. If I can't file these off this thing is useless. Incomprehensible quality control, or lack thereof.

Easy to assemble. YOU MUST file the metal tabs inside for prior to connecting the tubes or it will not slide as expected

I'm quite pleased with this cart. Putting it together was pretty easy and I'm able to move it around the garage without any problems. As usual, I read the reviews before I bought it so I knew that the width needed to be at its maximum for my Jeep JL (2 door) roof. I've been using it for the last 3 months so I haven't taken the roof off the cart yet but I don't foresee any problems when the time comes to do so.