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I do not have the jeep or rack anymore. The rack didn't rub against the soft top. However, I did experience buffeting with the top many times. I put pool noodles around the bars of the rack which helped with the buffeting but I did feel like the noodles ended up rubbing the soft top in a negative way so I took them off and dealt with the buffeting. The rear support did not damage the vehicle, if anything the stickiness for the metal pads that the rear support "pushes against" did but not much at all.

Hey Mark, I unfortunately do not have this Gobi Rack anymore as well as this Jeep. However, when I did have it for my JKU I only had issues with the soft top buffeting in the wind. It was VERY annoying and the only proper solution was installing black pool noodles on the rear bars which helped reduce the noise of the top hitting the rack and keeping it in place. Other than that, it was fine, I didn't have structural issues of swaying or concerns. This was also the design from probably 2012 or so (my jeep was a 2015) and I'm assuming they may have adjusted it since then especially to support the new JL jeeps. Sorry this doesn't help much but hope this gives you an idea.

@@rwarner this answered all of it thank you so much for replying back

Since it was during autocross, i asked the club who was in charge at the time if it was okay and they were cool with it. Eventually they didn't like it, some riders found it distracting. I didn't do it again after that day. This was years ago. DJI also didn't have restrictions for this particular location at the time. Hope this helps. Thanks!

Happy to hear it's still helping people! ☺ Thanks

Sorry for the late reply here, but it wasn't much of a concern. There was some sound issues with the soft top hitting the rack in the back on the highway but I ended up putting some black pool noodles on the bars so it wouldn't cause an issue. Hope this helps.

It works for anything that can hold water technically speaking. The jeeps have an empty bumper so thats what it takes advantage of

Ryan Warner OK.

And nice job

No they recommend not doing so when loaded

I wired the pump up with 12 gauge wire down the frame rails along the driver side. Then the pos/neg went to my source panel which is basically fuses and relays. Alternatively you could just wire it up to your source of power anywhere that would be most appropriate.

This particular rack in the video is for a specific line of JKs, not sure if a 2018 is a JL or not. But I would suggest checking out Gobi Racks website for more information! I don't know if they made one yet for JLs

@@rwarner thanks for the info, I'll check it out

I'm not sure, do you mean tilting it back with a RTT installed? I would be worried about it imo. I've tilted it back with a Awning on the side though

No complaints thus far. I haven't added much more onto it other than front and rear lights and CB. They work when I need them too so that's good. I'm pretty sure my battery is going bad so the voltage meter is helpful to check it while the alternator isn't running.

Not too bad with a hard top. With a softtop it's definitely more prominent. Especially if you have lights on the front or not. The airflow will potentially make the soft top flap if you don't have lights to disperse the airflow. However, they've also changed their design as well on the newest jeep so i can't speak to that.

You're welcome! :)

I can't imagine how it would make things much different. Assuming you still have access holes in the similar locations. The only concern could potentially be the length of cord running from the switch panel to the source system if for some reason the engine bay is swapped or something could not be long enough? I don't really have a straight answer for you, you'll have to do some poking around.

Yep thanks, i'll check that out soon, thank you for your quick reply! have a good one

Matthew Hoang no problem! Good luck

Brandon Koay glad to hear it 👍 it's been good here as well

Brandon Koay yes, yeah I wired the rear lights and mounted them on the rear of the gobi rack (there are specific mount areas). The wire is on the outside in wireloom and electric tape and goes INTO the pipe of the Gobi rack on the driver rear side and up and out near the driver door. From there i did a waterproof quick disconnect to be able to tilt the rack back and unplug the lights. That connects into the other side of the waterproof connector that then runs down the driver side rack pipe that goes down the windshield side and out the bottom of it (drilled a hole in the plugged bottom plastic piece) and into the engine bay to the source panel. Hope this helps get an idea 👍

Well, I saw on the forum someone used a vacuum cleaner to catch the wire. He tie a long string on the end of the wire so it could be easily sucked to the vacuum.

Ryan Warner Ah, that's too bad. Well thanks for your feedback:)

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The Modded Heavens yeah, you have to definitely take your hard top panels off to access the loop to secure the switch box. Was just looking at this today. I originally had my soft top on when installing though and had it lifted up / open

No problem. Oh man, I can't tell you how many times I've chased squeaking stuff in the A pillar area. I haven't gotten a specific solution for you. I've taken off the grabars so many times and also re-tweaked the gobi rack bolts on the outside. Nothing had seemed to be the optimal solution. I also started getting minor squeaking over bumps with the cold up here in new england somewhere around the appollointech which I assume is just because of the cold. Unfortunately don't have anything specific for help in that regard. I've learned to somehow just ignore it, but it took me a long time. Just sucks

DORKENSHIRE no problem! Glad it helped :)

I have the Gobi Stealth rack, with the four separate lights on the front bar rather than the lightbar versions that they have now that are available.

This is a 2015 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Sport S The box inside the cabin, did not get in the way for the latches on both the hard top and the soft top. I just switched over to the hard top and the latch slips behind it a bit but easily accessible. Thanks for the watch

that helped thanks nice job by the way

Thanks! Appreciate that