07-22-2009, 12:26 PM
My distance is 46" from the bottom of the tube to lowest part of the floor, so 47.75 to the top of the tube. Note, the cross bar sits 6.75" from the windshield frame...at this distance, the floor to hard top distance is 48". The distance from my driver's floor pan to the top of the windshild frame is 44.5".
No, I cannot fit a hard top over my roll bar, but this is because the hoop that runs behind the seats is too wide for the hard top to clear. So I don't know for sure if my front roll bar would clear the hard top, but I suspect it would clear by about 0.25".
I took some measurements on my other broncos that have hard tops. As I look at the hard tops, they slope significantly to meet the top of the windshield frame, so the closer your cross bar is to the windshield the less clearance you will have...like I said, my cross bar is 6.75" from the windshield, and I feel that I could barely fit inside a distance of 48". A cross bar closer to the windshield would have less clearance by 0.5-1" depending on how close you are to the windshield. HTH.
No, I cannot fit a hard top over my roll bar, but this is because the hoop that runs behind the seats is too wide for the hard top to clear. So I don't know for sure if my front roll bar would clear the hard top, but I suspect it would clear by about 0.25".
I took some measurements on my other broncos that have hard tops. As I look at the hard tops, they slope significantly to meet the top of the windshield frame, so the closer your cross bar is to the windshield the less clearance you will have...like I said, my cross bar is 6.75" from the windshield, and I feel that I could barely fit inside a distance of 48". A cross bar closer to the windshield would have less clearance by 0.5-1" depending on how close you are to the windshield. HTH.
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