I have a soft top jeep wrangler 2 door model. It will be my main way of transporting my yak around. My question is does anyone on this forum have the same jeep and haul their yak on the top of it with the top up? I am a little worried that I will bend the roof supports with my yak tied down on the roof. My Kayak weighs 46 pounds so it's not a very heavy one. As soon as it warms up I will have the top down to haul it around and I'm not to worried about hauling it that way.

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I have a soft top 2 door and this is what I went with  http://www.quadratec.com/products/12034_0402_07.htm

 

 

I did have to cut a little of the plastic on the soft top that connects to the Jeep.  My Yak is just under 50lbs and I have had no issues the it the past 2 years of use.  The support rails bolt on to the Jeep with not drilling needed.

Jeep wave.

I have a soft top 2 door and this is what I went with http://www.quadratec.com/products/12034_0402_07.htm

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I did have to cut a little of the plastic on the soft top that connects to the Jeep. My Yak is just under 50lbs and I have had no issues the it the past 2 years of use. The support rails bolt on to the Jeep with not drilling needed.

I have looked on quadratec a bunch of time and must have looked over that. Do you tie down the front of the Kayak also?

I don't tie down the front, and last year I didn't tie down the  back either. I probably should though.  My Yak has a paddle holder molded in it for laying the paddle sideways, I just use those divots to place in the front rack bar and the back bar butts up pretty decent around the lip behind the seat.  It's on pretty good and I don't have to get on the highway to get to the river which is only about 20 miles, if that from me.

 

When I got my Jeep I spent a long time looking for something that didn't have to be permanently attached.

Get a rack and call it good.  You will use the rack for all kinds of things and not just hauling the yak around.  On my old YJ i had a Garvin industries rack with basket and it was bomber and i now have a 4 door JK and have a marvin industries adventure rack. Their products are top notch and mount to the frame not the body.  I personally wouldn't want to use the rack pictured above as it is using the body to hold the weight, not the rack itself. 

 

I also did not see a noticeable difference in gas mileage on either of the two jeeps, maybe 1-2mpg, once i installed the rack.

• Im thinking a bed extender in the rear receiver trailer hitch and some kind of bolt on to the front windshield, like a light bar mount to carry it would work well. The bed extenders from Harbor Freight for instance work either to lengthen the bed of a pickup or can be inserted to go vertical like the height of the top of your Jeep.