Wonder if it’s a specific batch? Folks who have this issue, when did your hardtop arrive?
I played with the tightening order but haven't found any difference. The placement becomes the same. It's tight enough and I even don't hear the wind sound anymore, so I wonder if the liner theory is correct and maybe adding same isolation over the edge could help. Looking for @Turn Offroad input, I think it's easy to reproduce.
Mine came last week.
Purely specific use cases I didn’t consider prior to purchase. I bought a trailrax anticipating for some reason it would work like it does with the MIC. It doesn’t allow targa removal while the rack is installed. I also don’t like how poorly the rear hooks of the trailrax interface with the slots in the TOR top. Because of the bend on the bracket, they don’t slide in very far. Also, there’s really not any aftermarket support for the TOR either. Meaning no other rack manufacturer is designing for it. This also means the few other aftermarket options that are available won’t work either. Things like the Bestop Sunrider I’ve got sitting in its box. Again, these aren’t TOR’s problems, my fault for not considering all of the consequences. I like the Bronco for its modularity and diversity. The minute I put this top on, I lost access to a considerable amount of that potential. It looks better, it appears to be durably built, it just seems to have painted me in a corner in terms of flexibility in ways I didn’t anticipate.
Can you please elaborate the bracket problem a little bit more? I have the same rack sitting in my garage for almost two years and wanted to install it this weekend. I saw someone posted here the installed rack without (I hope) any issues. Not removing a targa is kind of a bummer and that's why I ordered (but got a refund) for the ADV one-piece hardtop.
Between the angle of the bend, the width of the slot, and the depth of the pocket, that was the best I could do at the time. I even tried to remove those black aluminum plates hoping to get it deeper, but that was a waste of time. Don’t do that.
Does it hold fine and it's only the look or it doesn't? And what rust do you mean? Where exactly?Between the angle of the bend, the width of the slot, and the depth of the pocket, that was the best I could do at the time. I even tried to remove those black aluminum plates hoping to get it deeper, but that was a waste of time. Don’t do that.
Ps. Notice the rust after two weeks being installed.
It holds and with the PacRax it’s probably fine, but certainly it’s not how it was designed/engineered. The rust is on the brackets of the trailrax around the bolt holes. Maybe hard to see in the pics. Not a TOR issue.
@TraumaJoe Do you have the same issue?Between the angle of the bend, the width of the slot, and the depth of the pocket, that was the best I could do at the time. I even tried to remove those black aluminum plates hoping to get it deeper, but that was a waste of time. Don’t do that.
Ps. Notice the rust after two weeks being installed.
Oh, yeah, bolts rust. I have some other brackets from them and bolts are fully rusted. @TrailRax could you suggest or maybe replace those bolts? I am specifically talking about trail sight mounts.
Hey! Our bolts are actually stainless steel black oxide so that is not actually the bolts rusting, it could be oxidation of the black oxide on those bolts that turn orange. We have seen that happen in some situations. Other times it may actually be a alloy steel bolt that accidently gets thrown into our batches of hardware. For this situation, it does not seem like it because the whole bolt will be orange. This looks like the steel clamp had its powder cracked and exposed to weather.
Did not see this picture till now. Yeah definitely can help you out with this. We will chat via email shortly. Thanks!Sent you a picture, but basically all 4 bolts look like that:
