custom roof rack

riptricket · **Posted:** Thu May 31, 2007 5:02 pm

Okay so i only paid for the bolts with alen wrench heads on them and the rest was free, so i have fabbed this up...

those are mounted in the stock rail holes to this 1" square piece from Lowe's... my bro gave me his excess

metal from work that they were going to throw away so i snatched it up

the excess will be cut off eventually, just wanted to see what you all had to say ...

i used a garage door bracket to connect the two pieces

my unused Hella FF75's will be mounted here when i am finished with the rack

i have always wanted clearance lights like the Hummer's have, so this will be my attempt...

any comments at all are welcome!!!

swyszomirski · **Joined:** Sat Oct 01, 2005 2:59 am **Posts:** 286

Just make sure that if a load is ever put on the cross bar that it doesn't hit the roof... not that I ever made that error when building my custom rack :roll:

riptricket · **Posted:** Thu May 31, 2007 8:02 pm

my problem is that i do not have a welder... and if i did i would have been done a loooong time ago
also, i am see some surface rust on the pieces, so what would you all recommend me using to stop the rust?

Maximum Carnage · **Posted:** Sat Jun 02, 2007 12:08 am

Try Naval Jelly it's a rust inhibitor. Works great for the price.

Do you have any pics of the supports being removed? I need to remove mine and would like to see pics.
http://www.lostjeeps.com/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=21272

riptricket · **Posted:** Thu Jun 07, 2007 1:54 am

update***

i got the lights wired, installed, and I lopped off the excess of the bar. so tell me what you all think!

Maximum Carnage · **Posted:** Thu Jun 07, 2007 8:42 am

Nice and clean, good work.

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