Question about some Roof Basket's

Jeepman56 · **Posted:** Tue Jun 09, 2009 8:25 am

I have the Black widow and it serves it's purpose, I have had plenty of weight on it without any problems. If I did it all over again though I would get a rock lizard rack or one built by Boiler, his are very nice as well. Some pics before I painted the crossbars.

Cpike · **Posted:** Tue Jun 09, 2009 8:31 am

Boiler wrote:

I love the lights on backroads. I'll wire them according to code when someone gives me legal grief over them.

I've got material and time to make you a rack if you're interested. They aren't as cheap as the bolt on baskets, but they aren't too godaweful expensive and they are a lot cleaner. Check out the link in my sig and PM me questions if you want to.

Forgive the self promotion, but I'm eager.

I was drooling over that rack earlier I believe. Ha, You prob don't take credit cards though?

ObiHann · **Posted:** Tue Jun 09, 2009 8:35 am

Cpike wrote:

Boiler wrote:

I love the lights on backroads. I'll wire them according to code when someone gives me legal grief over them.

I've got material and time to make you a rack if you're interested. They aren't as cheap as the bolt on baskets, but they aren't too godaweful expensive and they are a lot cleaner. Check out the link in my sig and PM me questions if you want to.

Forgive the self promotion, but I'm eager.

I was drooling over that rack earlier I believe. Ha, You prob don't take credit cards though?

everyone can take credit cards thanks to paypal

Cpike · **Posted:** Tue Jun 09, 2009 8:43 am

ObiHann wrote:

Cpike wrote:

Boiler wrote:

I love the lights on backroads. I'll wire them according to code when someone gives me legal grief over them.

I've got material and time to make you a rack if you're interested. They aren't as cheap as the bolt on baskets, but they aren't too godaweful expensive and they are a lot cleaner. Check out the link in my sig and PM me questions if you want to.

Forgive the self promotion, but I'm eager.

I was drooling over that rack earlier I believe. Ha, You prob don't take credit cards though?

everyone can take credit cards thanks to paypal

Oh you just made the top of my favorites list

ObiHann · **Posted:** Tue Jun 09, 2009 8:45 am

Cpike wrote:

ObiHann wrote:

Cpike wrote:

Boiler wrote:

I love the lights on backroads. I'll wire them according to code when someone gives me legal grief over them.

I've got material and time to make you a rack if you're interested. They aren't as cheap as the bolt on baskets, but they aren't too godaweful expensive and they are a lot cleaner. Check out the link in my sig and PM me questions if you want to.

Forgive the self promotion, but I'm eager.

I was drooling over that rack earlier I believe. Ha, You prob don't take credit cards though?

everyone can take credit cards thanks to paypal

Oh you just made the top of my favorites list

sweet! so do I get a birthday card now?

Cpike · **Posted:** Tue Jun 09, 2009 8:52 am

How about a cake?

ObiHann · **Posted:** Tue Jun 09, 2009 9:03 am

the cake is a lie! ... sorry, I think I geeked out there haha. will I get the actual cake or just the picture

Cpike · **Posted:** Tue Jun 09, 2009 9:27 am

The cake's sitting on my desk right now I swear.

Although your a bit far away, It may not make it.

ObiHann · **Posted:** Tue Jun 09, 2009 9:28 am

Cpike wrote:

The cake's sitting on my desk right now I swear.

Although your a bit far away, It may not make it.

I doubt it would make it over the border haha. Random customs search

Boiler · **Posted:** Tue Jun 09, 2009 9:34 am

Yeah I can take credit cards (or any type of payment via paypal), cashiers checks, money orders. Paypal is the no muss no fuss method of choice for most buyers I think.

liquidxit2 · **Posted:** Tue Jun 16, 2009 10:50 pm

riptricket wrote:

The black widow roof rack is like 100 bucks and I love mine!
pics here

Ok I saw this rack on amazon for ~100, now I need to find cross bars for cheap. But what is your exact setup crossbars and all the fasteners?

riptricket · **Posted:** Tue Jun 16, 2009 11:27 pm

ebay jeep liberty crossbars
but personally i do not like them b/c they do not come off very fast or put on very fast for that matter.
the owner of them did a very good job at selling me on the "locking aspect" but the locking part is just so you don't steal the cover.

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

I have the Surco Safari rack and think it works very well. The vertical support bars are spaced enough where no wind noise can be noticed (none more than the stock renegade rack) and it seems well built. It also looks good. It is more expensive than the black widow but my personal opinion is that it is a much better rack. Plus, if you get the 45" wide Surco rack then you don't need to purchase cross bars as the basket has crossbars into the base of the basket that extend beyond the factory horizontal bars.

http://www.summitracing.com/parts/SUR-S4560/

liquidxit2 · **Posted:** Wed Jun 17, 2009 11:49 am

riptricket wrote:

ebay jeep liberty crossbars
but personally i do not like them b/c they do not come off very fast or put on very fast for that matter.
the owner of them did a very good job at selling me on the "locking aspect" but the locking part is just so you don't steal the cover.

Im not worried about quick releases or anything as the bars would be on the jeep 100% of the time. Even if I take the cargo rack off they will be used for skis. Thanks.

Edit: I saw the crossbars, I have the renegade rails >.< so they wont work.

icarl · **Posted:** Wed Jun 17, 2009 1:10 pm

riptricket wrote:

The black widow roof rack is like 100 bucks and I love mine!
pics here

That's similar to the one i have except mine is a sportrack from Canadian Tire. It comes with the front wind deflector. I used to have it mounted on yakima crossrails but decided it was too high up. So now i have it mounted on angle iron at each end. It's about as low profile as you can go without scraping the roof. As far as I know I'm the only one using angle iron but it works great.

liquidxit2 · **Posted:** Wed Jun 17, 2009 1:18 pm

what do you mean angle iron? Sorry Im new to roof racks and such.

icarl · **Posted:** Thu Jun 18, 2009 2:50 am

liquidxit2 wrote:

what do you mean angle iron? Sorry Im new to roof racks and such.

Angle iron is just flat steel bent at a right angle along the length. A cross section would look like an L. Or if you took some square tubing and cut it diagonally. I will try an get a picture for you to see how i did it.

liquidxit2 · **Posted:** Thu Jun 18, 2009 1:34 pm

No worries on the pic, I have a good idea of what your talking about. Thanks!

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