 Hey everybody, this is Brett and today I'm going to show you how to take your hard top off of your Jeep Gladiator. Let's get to it. So before we start you're going to need some tools for this hard top removal. Thankfully Jeep usually gives you these. If you get this brand new you're going to get one of these kits. If you don't have one of these kits, you're going to need Torx 50. So this is a Torx 50 and on the Gladiator there are T50 right there. So on the Gladiator you're going to need this bit to get the hard top off and you're going to need a ratchet. So if you don't have this kit, either go get this kit from your local Jeep dealer or just go buy a Torx 50 socket. Like so. All right, let's get to taking the hard top off. All right, so the first thing that you're going to want to do is undo all your quick disconnects here. They're just basically like this. You're going to have six of them. So you're going to have three quick disconnects on each one and then you're going to have these guys right here. They just push down like so and then it's released. And the next part is to remove the front hard top pieces pretty easy so far. Just go into the other side now. Get these off as well. And now you're ready to remove the hard top pieces from the front. So when you're taking your hard top pieces off, it doesn't really matter if you're taking either side off first. The only thing that matters is when you put them back on that you put the passenger side on first and then the driver side because the driver side does overlap the passenger side. So they just lift off like so and if you had somebody helping you or you can just take it down. So that's what I'm going to do. All right, time for the passenger side. You can see where that driver side one overlaps on here. It goes over that for the weather script or weather seal there so that you don't get rain inside your vehicle. So you just take that off and you can all right. So Jeep gives you a very nice bag to put your front hard top pieces in and you're going to want to put your driver side one in first. It goes the wide way is on the bottom. So the widest part of your first hard top piece goes on the bottom. That just slides into place like so and then they have this flap to protect it from the second piece and I'm going to grab that right now. So now your second hard top piece is going to go right on top of that black felt. You're going to want the outside of the hard top piece facing the outside of the bag and I'll show you how that goes just like so and then we're going to spin this around to get it zipped up. Put your zippers right here and if you did it right and the pieces are in there correctly it should zip up just fine and it even has handy carrying bags but you can set these in the back of the vehicle or in the trunk or in the bed of the truck of the Gladiator. So that's it for the front hard top pieces. Now you can drive your Gladiator with just the front hard top pieces off and judging by how tricky it is to get the actual back hard top piece off that's what most people are going to do but we're going to show you how to take that back hard top piece off next. So you can see I got the back seats down on the Gladiator and there's going to be six bolts back here one two three four five six. So you're going to want to undo those and then there's a quick disconnect over there which I'll show you how to take that off and basically just put your wrench in here Torx 50 and just start taking them off after a little bit they become loose enough you can just take them out by hand so we're going to do all of these and then I'll show you the top. All right you can see I have five of these six bolts out you're going to say Brett I can't see the last bolt that's because it's behind this plastic piece here so what you're going to want to do is you're just going to want to grab right here and pull in towards the vehicle and then that's just a quick release clip now there is a safety there's a harness here a wiring harness there's your last bolt by the way but there's a wiring harness here so this red piece is kind of like a safety clip so like you can't push it down right now to get that out you have to push that red piece back and then you can see that black tab there take that and then you can pull and that piece comes out now we're going to take our last bolt out right here and then I'll show you the top bolts that we have to take out and then we're ready to take the hard top off so you're going to have two more bolts that you're going to have to undo on the top and the first one is right here and then there's one on the other side those are also Torx 50 so just grab your ratchet and take them out like so I suggest getting a ladder for this so you don't fall get your last bolt and we should be good to go the cool part about Wranglers and Gladiators is that they give you a spot to put all your bolts for all your hard top stuff so you just put the bolts for the hard top right in there the ones on the this side are for your doors and we'll do that video too so let's go in there just like that this cover goes on there so you don't lose your pieces and now we're ready to take this hard top off so before you remove your hard top you can do it one of two ways you can either take the hard top off and set it on some boards which we have two by fours stacked up here or you can use these pieces that should have came in your freedom top soft bag there's two of them they go on each side and they go just like that so when you set it down it'll be on here and it'll kind of like balance on there and we'll do it in just a couple seconds here so now that you got all your bolt top and everything's disconnected we're ready to take the hard top off I've got my buddy Austin over there he's going to help me carry it off it's probably around 50 to 60 pounds so you're going to want two people to do this like I said before they come with these nice little holders they go on right there so what we're going to do is before we even lift it off completely we're just going to put that in there so that it's all set to go and hopefully it'll fall off and then we just grab here grab on the bottom and walk back on the place to set it that's not nothing's going to fall on it those holders will go right on the floor and then they'll tip forward you want to make sure that this doesn't knock down you can put boards or blankets or whatever protect those and that's how you do it now you're ready to enjoy your gladiator with the top very simple to do as well just make sure that these stay off and you can grab it lift it up it should go on nice and snugly know when it's in place just put your bolts back in and you're all set to go so just remember that when you're putting your front panels back on your jeep you're going to want to put this one on first and then this one on top now everything's going to be nice and easy to close if it's not easy to close there's something wrong and something's not flush and you're going to have leaks but they should close that easy if they don't close that easy then you have done something wrong but they all should close pretty simply and easily and that's it now you're ready to go back out in the rain thanks for checking out my video I hope it was helpful and informational and that you're able to get your hard top off of your jeep gladiator thanks for checking out the video remember to like subscribe and share on my youtube channel in fact in a second you'll see a link to subscribe to my youtube channel in the upper left a link on how to get your doors off of your gladiator in the upper right a link to more wrangler hard top removal videos in the lower left and a link to one of our latest youtube videos in the lower right click those check us out and once again thanks again for checking out the video I really appreciate it remember to like subscribe and share