Finally built my roof rack

[BurbanAZ]

finally got around to building my roof rack, i was going to bend tube to run from the rack down to my frame but i need to get a bender first so i attached it with clamps which is plenty strong for right now. I attached it to the sides of the stock roof rack because they seem stronger than the cross bars. Heres a few pics of the build (sorry alot of pics, i take alot when i make something lol) nothing fancy but i like it.

 

[Dirtytires]

Looks great.

 

[BurbanAZ]

Looks great.

Thanks, im pretty happy with how it turned out

 

[sean257]

Nice!

 

[crazyeyez]

looks great!

 

[LACamper]

Nice!

 

[chilliwak]

Burban, you never have to apologize for posting lots of pics.....:ylsmoke: Nice clean looking rack and well made!

 

[BurbanAZ]

thanks for all the compliments guys

 

[HARDTRAILZ]

Well Done!

 

[GUNSLINGER 67]

Very nice , I like it

 

[Dirtytires]

Did you utilize the old rack system to mount it on the roof ?

 

[BurbanAZ]

Did you utilize the old rack system to mount it on the roof ?

yea for now. Im going to bend tube and run it down to the frame after i build a bender. I was worried a little about strength with it attached to the original rack but we were just our for a week offroading on some rough trails with probably over 300 lbs on it and it didnt budge (wouldnt recommend that though lol).

 

[Keitha]

Looks Great. What size and guage steel did you use?

 

[BurbanAZ]

Looks Great. What size and guage steel did you use?

i think it was just 16 ga 1 1/4" square

 

[Revco]

how heavy is that rack? And how did you attach it to the factory roof rack? I have my rack about 70% done. I put it on the backburner for now, but need to finish it out and get it mounted. I was going to use the original roof rack as a mount as well. Mine weighs about 30lbs so far, just need to do some finish welding and figure out what to do for the floor of it.