hey guys, my cherokee had a sunroof when i bought it, i have since removed it and all it's components with intentions of cutting the top out of a donor and patching the hole.

i thought it may be a cool idea to cut the top off of my donor and attach some sort of latches around it to seal it down in the winter and have some weather stripping around the border.

any ideas on this? has anybody tried this? suggestions?

 

The sheet metal is pretty flimsy and it will leak water no matter what you do.

 

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Put a sunroof back in it. Only way to fix it right. If you try to weld a panel in its gonna be very wavy.

 

diamond plate entire roof.

 

You could make a separate removable top, like a bronco or k5 has.

 

I would just go with the stock sunroof, and replace the seals. If you want to make the metal "pop top" sunroof you would have to make a frame for it, as well as for the surrounding roof metal.

 

They make universal ragtops. Still have to do sheetmetal work.

 

That would be cool. We tried to graft a tiger top from an old cj to an xj, but gave up after awhile and moved on. Lol

 

ragtop FTW

 

Rag top!

 

Sweet sauce!

 

yeah you could probably make some brackets and add a reinforced rim to both the roof and the patch. round it off with some thick weather stripping and wingnuts. sounds like alot of work but if you really want to keep it....