Surco Safari Roof basket

Quicksilversurf917 · **Posted:** Mon May 25, 2009 12:04 pm

Well I decided to get this basket http://store.summitracing.com/partdetai ... toview=sku, although I havent ordered it yet. For the people who own one, how do you like it? does it make alot of noise going down the road? does it create alot of drag?

And also what bracket or part # or whatever would be used to mount lights on the basket?

Im still debating on what basket I should get....

LibertyFever · **Posted:** Mon May 25, 2009 7:03 pm

I have one on top of my Libby and I luv it. Looks cool

It gives me a place to put the Hella500's and any cargo I wish to carry. Since taking the pic above I've mounted my spare tire in the basket too. I don't notice any increase in wind nois or a drop in my MPG. I imagine there is some but I haven't noticed a grerat problem.

Quicksilversurf917 · **Posted:** Mon May 25, 2009 8:51 pm

what did u use for mounts for your lights?

Sir Sam · **Posted:** Mon May 25, 2009 9:01 pm

LibertyFever wrote:

I have one on top of my Libby and I luv it. Looks cool

It gives me a place to put the Hella500's and any cargo I wish to carry. Since taking the pic above I've mounted my spare tire in the basket too. I don't notice any increase in wind nois or a drop in my MPG. I imagine there is some but I haven't noticed a grerat problem.

Nice wheels.

Liberator · **Joined:** Sun Jul 24, 2005 3:42 am **Posts:** 397

Sir Sam wrote:

LibertyFever wrote:

I have one on top of my Libby and I luv it. Looks cool

It gives me a place to put the Hella500's and any cargo I wish to carry. Since taking the pic above I've mounted my spare tire in the basket too. I don't notice any increase in wind nois or a drop in my MPG. I imagine there is some but I haven't noticed a grerat problem.

Nice wheels.

What he said.... very nice wheels, I never saw these on the KJ.

What are the offsets on those and how is the fitment ie. any rubbing?

LibertyFever · **Posted:** Tue May 26, 2009 7:58 am

The roof basket already had holes drilled in it for the lamps. I've run the wiring up the side of the windshield frame rather than drilling holes in the roof. The roof basket is held onto the stock roof rack with u-bolts from a hardware store. When I return home later this week I can take closeup pictures of the lamp and roof basket mounts and post them here.

The wheels are actually stock Grand Cherokee rims that I picked up recently. Yesterday I discovered that the 245/75R16 tires are occassional rubbing the pinch weld inside the front fender wheel well. Time to pound them down

My lift is a OTT lift consisting of spacers so my lift actually only raised my Libby 2.5". I have a friend of mine who is running the identical tires on his Libby but with a Frankenlift which actually raised my Libby 3", no pinch weld rubbing on his Libby (yet).

LibertyFever · **Posted:** Wed May 27, 2009 7:54 pm

Okay, I've got some pics;

The u-bolts are 1 3/8" wide and about 3" long.

Here's where I ran the wiring;

I ran my CB antenna cable the same route up the passenger side.

Quicksilversurf917 · **Posted:** Sat May 30, 2009 10:53 am

did those cross rails come with the basket or did you have to buy them somewhere?

03Cactus · **Joined:** Mon Mar 09, 2009 8:03 pm **Posts:** 49

Quicksilversurf917 wrote:

did those cross rails come with the basket or did you have to buy them somewhere?

The basket comes with those cross bars. They support and structure the rack. If you buy the 45" X 50" rack you can use those bars to mount the rack. If you buy the thinner rack (40" X 50") then you cannot.

riptricket · **Posted:** Wed Dec 09, 2009 1:55 am

What do you use in order to attach a CB to the surco? I am getting one and hopefully selling my BWRR.

liquidxit2 · **Posted:** Wed Dec 09, 2009 12:56 pm

Nice rack! I could get one for much cheaper then the other 2 Im looking at currently, but Im sure they dont work with the darn renegade rails...

jeepmedic46 · **Posted:** Wed Dec 09, 2009 9:28 pm

I like that rack, Would it be able to handle a 60" hi lift jack?

riptricket · **Posted:** Thu Dec 10, 2009 12:23 am

liquidxit2 wrote:

Nice rack! I could get one for much cheaper then the other 2 Im looking at currently, but Im sure they dont work with the darn renegade rails...

i bought the sto rails and sold my renny ones a long time ago... so I have no issues.

liquidxit2 · **Posted:** Thu Dec 10, 2009 12:27 am

riptricket wrote:

liquidxit2 wrote:

Nice rack! I could get one for much cheaper then the other 2 Im looking at currently, but Im sure they dont work with the darn renegade rails...

i bought the sto rails and sold my renny ones a long time ago... so I have no issues.

Yeah Im thinking about it too. I really need a safari rack and I wish I could make a widow or this one but these darn renegade rails. Anyone know if the surco can work with the renegade rails? or if there is a home depot fix to make it work?

riptricket · **Posted:** Mon Jan 04, 2010 9:43 pm

libertyfever what size is your surco ack?

LibertyFever · **Posted:** Wed Jan 06, 2010 1:56 pm

riptricket wrote:

libertyfever what size is your Surco rack?

My Surco roof basket measures 45" wide by 50" long.

I've since removed the roof basket because;

#1 I didn't really need the extra cargo area
#2 with the four Hella lamps & a spare tire in it my gas mileage sucked
#3 the Hella lamps were too high to be highway legal

Maybe I'll put it on the YJ's hardtop and bolt a shovel & a Hi-Lift to it.

riptricket · **Posted:** Thu Jan 07, 2010 12:52 am

do you have pics of what it looked like mounted?

LibertyFever · **Posted:** Fri Jan 08, 2010 10:30 am

riptricket wrote:

do you have pics of what it looked like mounted?

Yeah, look at the top of the page. The Silver 04 Liberty Sport with the Cherokee Silverstar rims.

riptricket · **Posted:** Sat Jan 09, 2010 8:29 pm

What do you use in order to attach a CB antenna to the Surco?

riptricket · **Posted:** Wed Mar 10, 2010 5:06 pm

^^^^ anyone?

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