IVE SEEN THE ONES YOU PURCHASE...ANYONE MADE ONE THAT CAN REMOVE THE TOP AND STORE IT..WHAT ITEMS TO PURCHASE..SOME OF THE HOOKS DONT LOOK STRONG ENOUGH...ITEMS NEEDED PLEASE
You figured it out, not much to it. Go to a hardware store and get your pulleys, rope, support rods, and padding. Look at the commercially available models and come up with a similar replica.
Two not very strong people can lift the hard top off a wrangler. I have an Unlimited and we just set it on its base in the bed of a truck when we first took it off and putting it back on again was just as easy.
I got some large hooks and put the in the rafters of my garage. We drive the jeep under them and get inside of it and push the top up and onto the hooks. Takes two people and no pulleys or ropes or anything. easy to do and much easier than a hoist.
