Soft doors for YJ with a hardtop

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Soft doors for YJ with a hardtop

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I was looking to try to adapt a soft door setup for my 94 YJ with a hard top. I have made inquiries to Bestop previously and was told their full soft doors would not fit a YJ with a hard top. I have done some research online and found some posts where people have coupled YJ hard half door lowers to TJ soft uppers to work with a YJ hardtop. My preferance would be to somehow make a full soft door setup work with my YJ hard top. Can anyone give me any info/suggestions?
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Re: Soft doors for YJ with a hardtop

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I've got an assortment of YJ full softs, TJ full softs plus half hards with soft uppers of each type.

I'll take a look and see if there looks like there may be a way of creating a set of full softs for use with a YJ hardtop.
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Re: Soft doors for YJ with a hardtop

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Thanks Kurt
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Re: Soft doors for YJ with a hardtop

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Here is a thread I just stumbled across...
http://www.jeepforum.com/forum/f12/how- ... op-945300/
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Re: Soft doors for YJ with a hardtop

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Kurt, I have checked out the thread. It is similar to others I have seen. Seems to involve a hard half yj door lower being paired with a soft TJ upper. Still have not seen anything about a full soft door combo
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Re: Soft doors for YJ with a hardtop

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I just looked at my YJ full soft doors and I believe they fit to my hard top. Too bad I want to keep them! 8-)
They have the rounded upper rear corner and not the angled corner.

It looks like TJ soft upper fit perfectly on YJ soft lowers. Worked for me when I put them together.

Another option would be to get a set of TJ full soft doors and just swap the TJ latches for YJ latch's on them.
They are just held on by 4 bolts.

My current YJ full soft doors
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TJ full soft doors
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TJ upper on YJ lower
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Re: Soft doors for YJ with a hardtop

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Thanks again Kurt, I will see what I can find on ebay
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Re: Soft doors for YJ with a hardtop

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So I found a nice set of YJ soft doors on ebay in brand new condition. They came in yesterday. I test fit them and the lower fits perfectly, latches great, seals perfectly. The upper (which is rounded in the upper rear corner like my hard-top) on the other hand is too long on the back end to close properly. I suspect this is why people talk about using a TJ upper with the YJ lower.
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