OK I am finally (hopefully) picking up my hard top roof on the weekend.

Does anyone know how it attaches to the body of the Moke??

I cant remember seeing any latches or tie downs or anything.

Does anyone have any pics of the inside of a Moke hard top??

What make is it? The factory Leyland ones bolt on through big holes you drill in the body. This makes them too much hassle to ever remove again and you now own a smellier, leakier, noisier version of the Mini.

Tim (self appointed hard top policeman on the Moke forum)

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1951 Morris Commercial J Type Van
1955 BSA C11G
1961 Morris Mini Traveller
1969 Triumph TR6R
1977 Leyland Moke Californian

I have had two hard-tops - one a home-made effort and the other built by Bronco Canopies.

Both very cleverly attached using those hooks that screw together - I'm not sure what they are called, but you have two hooked bolts with a large threaded spindle in the centre so that as you turn it it pulls the two bolts closer together - which attached to the mounting brackets for the standard hood-bows.

There was also a pair of small brackets at the front which attached to the windscreen frame with a couple of self-tappers. The home-made unit used two of the same holes as the sun-visors, but can't remember about the Bronco canopy.

I then used copious amounts of silicon sealer (non-acetic cure type) to completely seal around the joins. It worked very effectively.

All that being said, I much prefer a soft-top on the Moke.

Cheers,
Watto.

Watto, these are `turnbuckles'.

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Hey - that's them.

I just couldn't place the name in my head.

My brain is so full of useless information that the important stuff just oozes out my ears!!

Cheers,
Watto.

Thanks guys

Will have to have a closer look at it. I did have some pics but lost my phone and the roof is in Newcastle...

I was hoping to make something that will allow it to be removable.

I much prefer no roof, but for some reason I have always wanted a hard top for her.

The beauty of the turnbuckles was that it was easy to remove the roof (when I had the home-made one on my Moke), but on the wife's Moke the Bronco roof was a semi-permanent feature because of all the silicone.

If your roof has good seals, then the turn-buckles (assuming that's what it has or you can modify it to take them) should keep out most of the weather in wnter, and still allow it to be removable.

By the way, what year is your Moke? If it is before 1980 it can be annoying filling a top-fill tank with a hard-top (speaking from experience) and you will get a lot more petrol fumes in the car. If it is a side-fill, so much the better.

Good luck.

Cheers,
Watto.

Even if its firmly attached to the body there's still a good chance that it will rattly badly where it rests on the top of the windscreen frame. There is a lot of body twist in a Moke and its at its greatest at the top of the windscreen. The one that came with my moke was terrible on rough roads.

Tim

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1951 Morris Commercial J Type Van
1955 BSA C11G
1961 Morris Mini Traveller
1969 Triumph TR6R
1977 Leyland Moke Californian

You should totally scrap the idea of a hardtop...

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“A turbo: exhaust gasses go into the turbocharger and spin it, witchcraft happens and you go faster.” - Jeremy Clarkson

I was at the Sydney Motor Show in 1980 looking at the Mokes on display in the Leyland Pavilion (in the old Sydney Showground)
The cute blonde girl in the tight Leyland T-shirt and tight jeans handed me a brochure for the Moke and I was chatting away nicely to her about Mokes when I asked about the optional hardtop...

She lifted he nose in the air and said "a Moke should never have a roof" turned around and walked away.

This is a pick of my "hardie"

The wife says it's got to go,we prefer to go topless-so if anyone wants a hardie,let me know -Free to a good home!

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Yeh she did!

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Here am I sitting in my tin can far above the Moon
Planet Earth is blue and there's nothing I can do...



“A turbo: exhaust gasses go into the turbocharger and spin it, witchcraft happens and you go faster.” - Jeremy Clarkson

The hardtop on my moke attaches to the pivot brackets for the hood bows on a soft top and at the back with clips that lock under the rolled edge of the back. No extra holes!

My moke has never had a softtop from new!

Bugger I didnt think about that....



Thanks for the pic... helps me understand how to get this thing on. Mine looks similar to that one but mine has sliding back windows from memory.

Interestingly, the filler tube is a long way back on your top for a top mount fill Moke.



You should stop picking on people and get your moke back on the road.......!!!!

Interestingly, the filler tube is a long way back on your top for a top mount fill Moke.

This top has a "Leyland" logo stamped in it near the filler hole,and should suit the early model Moke with side filler.Has a lockable liftup rear hatch and lockable side doors.

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