Roof Rack & Light Bar Gallery

Jeger · **Posted:** Fri Oct 20, 2006 7:11 am

There are lots of you that have added light bars and roof racks, and there are tons of pictures everyone has posted up as well. The only thing is they are scattered about all over the site and hard to find. I wanted to try to make a thread where someone can go to get ideas and see what others have done.

So post up those pics!

Tell us what you used and how you did it if you like.

snowsport · **Joined:** Tue Oct 18, 2005 11:52 pm **Posts:** 1211

BRR*

*basic roof rack

This is a meat and potatoes rack made of 1-1/4" square steel. I plugged the ends with Mahogany and ProBond, to stop the Pan Pipe effect at highway speed. This rack is suitable for lumber, etc. I just u-bolted it to the stock roof rails. Not fancy, but it carries a load securely.

Gris · **Posted:** Fri Oct 20, 2006 1:21 pm

I made this one

With the lights...

gone_jeepin · **Posted:** Fri Oct 20, 2006 2:09 pm

Are those LEDs? they sure do look like they put out a heck of alot of light!!! Is the light usable or does it only reach to the front of the jeep???

libby · **Posted:** Fri Oct 20, 2006 2:25 pm

I made this for our jeep out of 3/4" electrical conduit. I bought the 90 deg. elbows and welded to the straight piece with a threaded insert inside. Then sanded smooth the welds to appear as one continous piece. They are connected vertically by 3/4" square tube welded at both ends. To attach to the factory rails I used the wall clamps for conduit, they had to be heated and bent to fit. These are welded to (2) 1" cross bars. The ends are dipped in rubber. The basket is separate and can be remove from the cross bars. Paint is spray-on bedliner. The lights are Hella 500s: 1 pair driving, 1 pair fog.

Hi-Lift attachment

Made this one for someone else

And this one for the 4Runner

Endurance · **Posted:** Fri Oct 20, 2006 3:07 pm

libby, this roof rack is great, can you make me one? :-)

edit: Of course I would pay and I could do you a favor and E-Coat some parts if you want to.

KJ4MUDN · **Posted:** Sun Oct 22, 2006 12:23 am

I have a wilderness roof rack, with some lights from ebay. I don't care for them that much, I hate the covers.
I am still having a hard time posting pics, so here is the web site
http://web.mac.com/jtsimon6414/iWeb/Sit ... s%203.html
if you click on slide show the pics will be bigger.

We put the fire extinguisher on the rack, for our last jeep jamboree.. It was one of my better ideas. When we went through a lot of mud I had an over heating problem, so we found the older typr fire ex. that you could put h2o in and air and it works great for cleaning off the radiator.

JJsTJ · **Posted:** Sun Oct 22, 2006 10:00 am

Some pics of a rack I used to have on my KJ. It was a Ebay rack I modified to bolt to the factory locations, I also added the corners and some mounts for tire and Hi-lift. I sold it to another member a while back.

FWIW, (nada I'm sure) rack i built for my XJ.

JJsTJ · **Posted:** Sun Oct 22, 2006 10:06 am

Roof rack that is on my wifes KuJo. Wilderness brand, I will soon be adding an expanded metal floor, air dam mounts and welding it up solid then making mounts to bolt it to factory rail mounting location.

kolesy · **Posted:** Sun Oct 22, 2006 10:41 am

Here's my set up. I got the Surco Safari Rack. I mounted it to the factory rails using the Surco mounts. I got a great deal on the racks and mounts so thats why I am using them. otherwise I would have just used some U-bolts as the Surco mounts are so expensive. I added a set of Hella FF50s to teh rear underside of the rack for extra reverse lighting. Two more sets are going on the front underside of the rack wehn they get in.

pixeldzn · **Posted:** Sun Oct 22, 2006 12:26 pm

Mounted up 4 Hella FF75s on my BVG rack.

I used eyebolts thru the rack, with a washer above and below and the hella supplied mounting bolt thru the washers and eye.

I used a 4-wire trailer wiring plug after cutting the supplied Hella harness to facilitate taking the rack and lights on and off.

I mounted the switches to the left of the steering column. where the switch for a renegade lightbar would be. The left switch controls the two outside lights and the right switch controls the middle 2 lights.

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Before Moab, I built a mount for my hi-lift on the BVG rack.

I used a piece of flat stock folded into a "U" shape and then put a bolt with a spacer thru it. Overall preety simple design, but functional.

eggwhite93 · **Posted:** Sun Oct 22, 2006 3:21 pm

nice options there pixeldzn.

hyedipin · **Joined:** Thu May 11, 2006 10:20 am **Posts:** 1667

Great pix everyone. These make me envy so much.

One quick question, did anyone get a cross bar only instead of basket and add lights?
For me basket it too much, unless I get a great deal, but maybe with a crossbar and mount it on them?

also Catcher123 has the same rectangular ones in the back, facing rear, they look great as well.

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