Bronco6G Review: EZ4x4 hard top remover lift. My review.
I purchased this from @EZ4X4 about a month ago while they were running their gift card sale.
https://www.ez4x4.com/collections/f...ucts/ford-bronco-2-door-hard-top-remover-lift
I had been stalling on getting a hoist in general because the ones I came across were either too expensive or I didn’t have the room in my garage ceiling to run a hoist because of a drop down air duct system running across the ceiling. I just couldn’t bring myself to spending 900 dollars on a lift when frankly I didn’t know how long this stupid top was going to last with all the problems it has and having already had it replaced last year under warranty which expires this year in the spring.
Prior to getting the lift I had to bribe my wife to help me get it on an off the vehicle and she’s short and it’s a Sasquatch and one time we came close to dropping it last summer because the weight shifted funny. That would have been a really expensive mistake.
Well after digging around I came across the one from Ez4x4 and with the sale they were doing it seemed like a no brainer. So I ordered up some gift cards and bought one…great deal by the way!
the item shipped quickly and was packaged really well.
My initial thoughts.
Quality
Pros- certainly used nice heavy duty metal constructing this thing. Top notch in that regard. The crank seems to be really good quality, smooth in operation and came well lubed.
Cons - and I’m being picky here like reaaallllyyy picky but paint was flaking off in a couple spots on a couple of pieces but nothing a little touch up paint can’t fix. Again being quite picky especially given the price of sub500 dollars. And it wasn’t like big chunks of paint coming off..,just tiny spots… wasn’t even worth taking a picture of.
Assembly
The instructions surprisingly were not bad. I chose not to watch the video first and try to do it just off the paper. Everything was nicely explained with good pictures. I had no fitment issues everything came together nicely holes lining up and bolts pushing through smoothly. A lot of times with products that cost less than the competitors you are fighting that stuff sometimes to fit together and bolt up. Not the case here. Overall I think it took me a little over an hour to assemble it and that was after redoing a couple things cuz I wasn’t paying attention
The nuts and bolts
Just being honest here cuz I really dislike assembling things in general a bag of all the nuts washers and bolts lumped together in just a couple bags was not what I was hoping for. I would have liked to have seen them baggied up separately and labeled accordingly,
Pro tip - don’t rely on the tools that come with it, have to imagine anyone with this vehicle has at least a cheap socket set at home…but if you don’t for some strange reason go get some cuz you’re overdue…
I was pleased to see though that there was a cheat sheet with 1:1 sized examples for reference to check the bolts against. And most of the bolts had the necessary washers and matching nut already assembled to the bolt. That was a nice touch actually. Definitely sped up assembly by not digging around for the washers and nuts separately. So i just emptied all the bags and sorted the bolts by size.
Using it
This is the part I had patiently been waiting for. Record high temps in Minnesota this last Thur - Sun so I took a couple days off work to enjoy the weather and wanted to do so with no top on.
Everything was very smooth. Casters rolled nicely and firmly locked in place. The crank was if anything a bit on the slow side to operate but this gives you a lot more control of the lifting and prevents any sudden movement of the top in both raising and lowering, I appreciated that a lot.
storing the lift when not in use was another big reason I liked this one. It packs up realllly nice. Pull a few pins lift it up insert pins. Done. I’m quite limited on space in my garage so this was a huge plus for me. Sorry I don’t have a lot of pictures. Was too busy hurrying to enjoy the weather.
final verdict
I’m extremely happy with this purchase especially at the price point it’s at. I expect this thing to last much longer than the top ever will. The company was a pleasure to work with and will definitly be a goto for a door storage cart in the future.
thanks! @EZ4X4
