Incomplete soft top, what all am I missing?

[WallyWest]

This is for a 2003 Sport, if that matters.

Dragged out the soft top that came with it when I purchased it last year. I know I'm missing the door surrounds, does the rest of this stuff look right? And does this appear to be a factory soft top? It has a Bestop logo in the corner of the rear window, and a small tag on the edge of the top with the logo as well. There's a sticker near the inside front of the top that probably had a model #, but it's been torn up too bad to read. Windows are in reasonably good condition, a little cleaning and polishing and I think they'll be fine. Top is slightly dirty but no rips or tears that I've found.

I think the two large hardware pieces with the bent pipes and some sort of hinged bracket in the middle make up the frame the top sits on. The larger straight metal piece appears to be the front clip that attaches to the windshield. And I have one smaller straight metal piece with a rubber seal of some kind on it, bottom or top of the rear window maybe?

Trying to decide if this is worth getting the missing parts for, or if I should just go with a new top entirely. Pictures show everything I have.

 

[Daddyhog]

Looks like an aftermarket top. Factory TJ's windows have cloth along line of factory rear bows.

 

[WallyWest]

Yeah, I *think* it's a Supertop from Bestop, but not sure. There are brackets still installed at the top front of the roll cage that the poles slide into, I don't think those are part of the OEM top.

 

[JEEPCJTJ]

It certainly looks like you have a Bestop SuperTop <click that to see the installation instructions.

As long as you're right about the condition of the windows and the top itself whatever pieces are missing shouldn't be anywhere near the $900+ a replacement would cost.

 

[Moab]

Do you have the parts on your Jeep that the frame ties into? If your Jeep originally came with a soft top or soft top and hard top - you'd have them. I can't describe what they look like. But I'll try to find a picture. One goes on the roll bars both sides. And the other I think sits on the top edge of the rear tub area. Unless I'm thinking about the other soft top I had. I think I had a best top originally. And it used the aforementioned parts. So it should be germaine to your setup.

My Jeep was missing the roll bar tie in brackets. As my Jeep was originally a hard top.

 

[WallyWest]

Do you have the parts on your Jeep that the frame ties into? If your Jeep originally came with a soft top or soft top and hard top - you'd have them. I can't describe what they look like. But I'll try to find a picture. One goes on the roll bars both sides. And the other I think sits on the top edge of the rear tub area. Unless I'm thinking about the other soft top I had. I think I had a best top originally. And it used the aforementioned parts. So it should be germaine to your setup.

My Jeep was missing the roll bar tie in brackets. As my Jeep was originally a hard top.

I think I have some parts still attached underneath the hard top that's on now that go with the soft top hardware. The caps on either side of the rear window that the bar attaches to, and up on the front of the roll bars near the top corners of the windshield are brackets that the frame sits in. It looks like the frame, those two larger pieces in the pics with the foam covers on parts of them, have a bracket that bolts into the same holes the hardtop uses along the top of the tub.

I'm reasonably convinced all I'm missing are the door surrounds, but yeah, just wanted to see if anyone knew for sure. I'll get pics tomorrow of the hardware still attached to the Jeep.

 

[WallyWest]

It certainly looks like you have a Bestop SuperTop <click that to see the installation instructions.

Oh, yeah, that does indeed look like what I have. What's interesting is there's no mention of door surrounds there, the instructions look like they are aimed at people with half doors. I think I still need the door surrounds for using full doors, which is what mine has.

Guess I should contact Bestop and see what they recommend.