[Spits] weight of a finished factory hardtop

[Doug Braun]

I would guess about 60 pounds.

I have been suspending mine from the ceiling for
years, and it has suffered no harm.  Currently
I have a single luggage-rack clamp-on crossbar.
Attached to this is a system of ropes and pulleys. I
remove all the bolts holding the hardtop to the car,
clamp the crossbar to the gutters at the correct
balance point, pull on the ropes, and up it goes.

It's getting sort of hard to find those old-style
clamp-to-the-gutters luggage racks, but I stumbled
across a single one at a garage sale.  The ropes an
dpulleys are from the hardware store.  The system is
attached to the ceiling by a pair of eyebolts screwed
into the ceiling joists.

I don't think you need to buy a specialty product- all
the things I used were from a garage sale or the
hardware store.

You can see a picture of my previous-generation system
at www.dougbraun.com, but since then I have redone the
hardtop liner, and moved to a new house.

Doug Braun
'72 Spit


--- maya2blue at juno.com wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
> Does anyone know the weight of a finished factory
> hardtop?  
> 
> I am looking at various "hoisting systems" to lift
> my hardtop off of the
> car and store it (using the hoisting system) over my
> car but near the
> ceiling.