I am building my own roof rack. How much can the Renegade factory roof rails hold? I would like to be able to put a gas tank, some recovery gear, and maybe be able to put some wood up there.

Thanks all!

Supposed to be only 150 lbs, if I remember correctly.

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its all how you disburse the weight. the more support/attachment points on your rack to the roof rails... the better the weight is disbursed and can in theory hold more.

i am going to use the build-up like the chain-link fence rails on the top and then add a custom rack. not carrying more than 100lbs i hope. thanks

something to consider..... it isn't just the weight of what you put up there, it is the weight times X if you have an unfortunate impact with something while driving. If the end cap sections are made of pot metal then they are definitely the weak link in the whole fabrication. I can think of many scenarios right now of an impact and launching of rooftop cargo.

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so are you saying to make the roof bars that connect to the factory rails out of something else?

Ripticket, That's what I love about this place people are always willing to help another member out. Yes there are things I didn't take into consideration when I came up with those cross bars. Also, I am working on a new design for some cross bars. I'll post some pics as soon as I can.

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The Renegade tupper ware is teh connection point to the cross rails, so it won't hold as much as a direct connection to the roof rails.

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For my setup I'm using the lowrider from yakima, but I found it both expensive ($130) and high: it add a good 1.5" to the total height.
You can see the picture in the appropriate forum http://www.lostjeeps.com/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=72790#72790

If you come up with a strong way to attach the cross bars (mine are round) that would be great! I scratched my head all weekend before finally gave up and buying the lowrider

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This maybe a little late but I'm currently in the process of building a roof rack also. I'm going to use U-bolt's to connect the conduit of the frame to the factory rails. I plan on using 1/2" IMT for the rack itself.

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If you look on the bottom of the plastic on the Renny roofrack it shows you a weight limit. The writing is very small but I believe it says do not exceed 72lbs. My libby's in the shop so I can't look right now. But the limited for some reason says about 150lb, and mine was like 70-80.lbs. Why? I have no Idea...I guess it's b/c the weight is being supported by the plastic instead of the bolted down rails.

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New to the KJ world and the first thing I don't like is the factory roof rack on my limited. I don't think it will hold much and was wondering if there is a decent bolt on replacement out there. I have Yakima lowridrs from an older truck that is gone and I will likely use those for now. I called Yakima and they don't think they have anything to direct replace the factory rack.

I need some solid rack and cross bars to carry bikes, kayaks, etc. Can easily exceed the weight limit of the factory rack in a hurry. Plus the factory unit seems cheesy and I don't trust it haulin' canoes and kayaks in a heavy wind.

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When I did my own rack, I just took off the factory rails and mounted the new rack to where the factory rails mounted. That made for a lower profile, then I put my Megawarrior on top of that. Pics are in my signiture link. I did have the lower rider towers on top first, and will sell them to ya if you want cheaper, they just aint pretty and new.

stephen

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I also got rid of the stock rack completely. I found it MUCH stronger to mount my rack directly into the room than use the stock stuff.




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