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Tech Forum => Workshop => Topic started by: PJAYUK on October 20, 2010, 01:43:52 PM

Title: How to remove the factory roof rails on a KJ??
Post by: PJAYUK on October 20, 2010, 01:43:52 PM

I have tried to search for this but unfortunately have not found a clear answer....

This is hopefully quite simple, I am planning to install my Ham radio gear into my 56 Cherokee and want to install an aerial onto the existing roof rails.  I am told that these are examples of plastic engineering at its finest so I need to work out a way to earth my antenna to give it sufficient ground plane.  As my Jeep is "Uni-bodied" according to a US site in theory I should be able to pick up a decent earth from anywhere on the body of the truck itself.  So I was planning to run a short ground wire from the mount to one of the bolts that secure the roof rails to the roof. 

Crafty eh? well possibly only I cant see how the damn things are secured to the roof.  I found some info that suggests that a plastic cover should pop off but I cant find where this could be on mine...

Anyone able to point me in the right direction please?

Title: Re: How to remove the factory roof rails on a KJ??
Post by: ivanidea on October 20, 2010, 04:21:08 PM

I haven't had a look at mine, but this is the info I found on LOST.

http://www.lostjeeps.com/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=54786&hilit=roof+rails (http://www.lostjeeps.com/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=54786&hilit=roof+rails)