Well, he's in process of buying the first. He gave me half up front and rest when he comes to pick it up. Bout 2 weeks from now.
Yeah, LIV42DY was the one that wanted the nightmare. I haven't had time to work on it though. We haven't discussed it in quite a while. I was actually thinking about maybe giving him what he really wanted, if he had "superfunds". He knows what I'm talking about. Don't tell LIV
The one I showed went on my rig.
I'm glad too because I jacked up the roof nutserts using thick (3/16") rubber and overtightening the bolts. The rubber supported the pads in most areas, but allowed the nutserts room to draw up to the foot where it compressed the rubber locally. It drew them up and they were spinning. Next, Tony (my welder) talked me into something: We tapped the nutserts down, seperating the two pieces of sheetmetal by about 1/16". Then he tacked them back into place. Little did I know that the 1/16" gap was a perfect channel for sparks to enter the vehichle while welding. It resulted in a burned drivers seat. It was not a good day. BUT it is resolved, and only my rig took the pain of that lesson, so all is good. We ended up insulating the rack from the roof using a 1/16" thick piece of high durometer rubber, and just snugged the rack and used locktite. Worked great.
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2005 KJ Renegade
Fabrications for sale:
Aluminum Roof Rack (See Page 9)Aluminum Gas Tank Skid --
Radiator Skid --
Front Strut ShimsComing Soon: Rear Bumpers with lots of options