Just wondering from those who went with the Tusk Soft Upper Doors for the 4 door Generals, how they like them. The price difference in the Tusk vs Polaris keeps getting bigger and bigger. At first I was pretty set on the Polaris Canvas Upper Doors, but now they are over $1700 !
Anybody that has the Tusks, I would love to hear your thoughts, $1000 difference really has me leaning towards the Tusk now.
I installed a set of Tusk doors on our G4. Didn't want to spend the $ on the Polaris uppers as I've read in this forum that there were fitment issues with them also. The Tusk doors fit ok, and for my purposes will do fine although there are some gaps. As you read the other comments here, believe them. Don't trust the drill templates completely. for one thing, the placement of the templates isn't terribly clear and the templates themselves (basically a sticker that is cut to a "similar" contour of the area that needs to be drilled) aren't perfect. Also, don't make the mistake of leaving the templates on your doors for a long time. The adhesive they use on them is very strong and if left in the heat for a day, they are a bitch to get back off and will probably leave adhesive on your door that you've got to scrub off and/or pull of some of the door paint, which both happened to me.
The steel used is pretty cheap and soft, which is good for bending and tweaking but also bad since moving the uppers on and off the machine can bend them out of shape. The post pockets on my install were weird. Some of them slide right in and others i had to grind the paint off the posts just to get them to fit into the pockets. i initially thought the pocket brackets were misaligned in the doors but even after taking the brackets off the door frame and trying to slide them on the posts they wouldn't go. Some posts seemed too long and had to trim the length to get them to drop in fully and grind off paint. the welding looks like it was done by a 5 yr old, but what can you do. there are some sharp edges on the metal also, so be aware of that.
all and all, i paid $699 through Amazon and was glad to have them on a few cool wet rides. The gaps are visibly noticeable but they don't seem to let a ton of air blow in.
Don't plan on getting them installed in a hurry. Take your time, check and recheck the template locations. Verify by holding the upper door up to the lower door. might be worth cutting the templates off the sheet and using masking tape to get them on location. then you could easily adjust them on the doors before finally drilling the holes in the plastic.
if you're doing a G4 install- when you do the rear doors, don't worry about the front and rear door seals being close together. The rear door upper has to mate well with the small filler panel that actually gets bolted in by the rear seat headrest area. There is a little forgiveness on the bolted in filler panel and rear upper door as far as tweaking the templates to keep the back edge of the upper door so it comes into contact with the filler panel when the rear door is closed. The front edge of the rear upper door panel is just going to sit on the flat vertical ROPS support that's behind the drivers seat. i made the mistake of trying to keep the front upper and rear upper door seals to be closer together which left a gap between the rear upper door and the filler panel. had to make oversized holes in each to bring them together once i realized what I'd done wrong.
