Just another roof rack

candpliberty · **Posted:** Thu May 20, 2010 11:29 pm

I started with RRO roof rails. Then I started looking around the garage for things I could possibly use in making this thing.
I found some HD Simpson steel ties, some king kong 3/8 thick angle that I "found" years ago. This is what I ended up with. A total of 12 pieces, one for every end of 6 cross members(5 for cargo, 1 to support the spoiler. I wanted plenty of tie points

I didn't have any stock for the cross bars so I got 3 ten foot lengths of IMC conduit from Home Depot. Its thicker than EMT. It's thick enough to have threads on both ends but not as thick as RMC.

candpliberty · **Posted:** Thu May 20, 2010 11:39 pm

I was wondering why I kept pieces of the front bumper that I chopped up. Shaped them with a heat gun and a piece of round pipe for a pad between the brackets and roof rails.

KJWildman · **Posted:** Fri May 21, 2010 12:23 am

Cool, Sometimes that's how the best projects start! :lol:

"let's see... I'll take one of those and weld it to one of those.... then cut some off here"

That's actually how my rack started. Keep it up :BANANA:

candpliberty · **Posted:** Fri May 21, 2010 2:23 am

It's nice to be able to join pieces of metal together. Though I got chunks of finger meat missing from the last couple of days! :shock:

candpliberty · **Posted:** Wed Jul 27, 2011 12:54 am

Well, I'm back at it. IMC conduit is tacked in. I had a towel to pad the step ladder to weld. The towel caught fire and burned my arm! Because I had the welding helmet on I didn't know. Not bad but cooked a couple of inches of skin!

Each bracket will have 1 horizontal and 1 vertical hole for bungees or tiedowns.

candpliberty · **Posted:** Thu Sep 15, 2011 5:19 pm

All done!

cgass · **Posted:** Thu Sep 15, 2011 7:53 pm

Looks great. Are they removable?

candpliberty · **Posted:** Thu Sep 15, 2011 9:30 pm

Removeable and moveable. One bolt on each end of each cross .

cgass · **Posted:** Thu Sep 15, 2011 9:47 pm

I might make something similar to this for use with my skyslider. Great design candpliberty

candpliberty · **Posted:** Thu Sep 15, 2011 9:55 pm

Thank you for the compliment

arengant · **Posted:** Mon Oct 03, 2011 2:11 pm

Are the RRO rails parallel, or do them taper like OEM?

candpliberty · **Posted:** Mon Oct 03, 2011 3:13 pm

they are tapered. The rails use the oem mount holes. I can adjust the cross rails a inch or so.

arengant · **Posted:** Mon Oct 03, 2011 5:29 pm

Looks good!

If you ever have a chance, can you measure the minimum and max INSIDE distance between the rails?

candpliberty · **Posted:** Mon Oct 03, 2011 8:00 pm

arengant wrote:

Looks good!

If you ever have a chance, can you measure the minimum and max INSIDE distance between the rails?

42 1/2 inside to inside at the front bend

39 7/8 inside to inside at the rear bend

blackwidowkj06 · **Posted:** Mon Oct 03, 2011 9:58 pm

Looking good.

I'd like to place my order now :ROTFL:

candpliberty · **Posted:** Mon Oct 03, 2011 11:18 pm

blackwidowkj06 wrote:

Looking good.

I'd like to place my order now :ROTFL:

blackwidowkj06 · **Posted:** Tue Oct 04, 2011 8:31 am

candpliberty wrote:

blackwidowkj06 wrote:

Looking good.

I'd like to place my order now :ROTFL:

I'm 9 days from getting a new titanium engine management device. Also known as a Implanted Cardiac Devise. My old one decided to :dead:

. I'm working my butt off to get the rock rails done before then. Sorry,man!

I was just kidding...

candpliberty · **Posted:** Tue Oct 04, 2011 10:17 am

LOL, I didn't mean to freak you out. It's cool. I sort of blurted it out. Sorry, man.

candpliberty · **Posted:** Sat Oct 29, 2011 5:20 pm

Bought a 48" cast/stamped HiLift from Amazon. 2- 1/2" x 3 bolts, 6- flat washers, 2- nuts, 2- wingnuts and a reenforced rubber exhaust hanger is what it took to mount the jack to my roof rack, using the holes in the end brackets.

candpliberty · **Posted:** Fri May 25, 2012 7:52 pm

More junk on the roof.
What the heck is it?

A couple of springs, a couple of furniture leg rubber thingies with a 3/4 pinched in it, a couple of master locks keyed alike with the gas can locks.

front and back mount:

Da shovels:

Up on the Roof... :rockon:

Tada!

No rattles, no knobs, padlock works as pin.

Just another roof rack

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