Rack - ever tried this?

[WASURF63]

Whoops. The pics didn't make it on the last reply. Here ya go...

 

[viter]

http://www.fordvehicles.com/2009f150/?bannerid=364693|24543588|209794765|0&referrer=N3016.Primedia

click on the "DURABILITY (silver creek)" link at the bottom left corner of the page and watch the flex of the truck bed next to cab for the 4 trucks shown (f-150, tundra, silverado, and dodge), then think about what would happen if there was a rigid rack installed between bed rails and cab roof without stiffening the rest of the structure with a real "cage" like in race vehicles, as pointed out earlier.

I just think that video is cool!

 

[mountainpete]

http://www.fordvehicles.com/2009f150/?bannerid=364693|24543588|209794765|0&referrer=N3016.Primedia

click on the "DURABILITY (silver creek)" link at the bottom left corner of the page and watch the flex of the truck bed next to cab for the 4 trucks shown (f-150, tundra, silverado, and dodge), then think about what would happen if there was a rigid rack installed between bed rails and cab roof without stiffening the rest of the structure with a real "cage" like in race vehicles, as pointed out earlier.

I just think that video is cool!

Wow! The Tundra was awful! That was scary.

 

[xcmountain80]

What about mounting the rack to a vehicle's (custom frame mounted) rock sliders instead of the body? Get rid of the majority of the cab/bed/frame flex issue. Just a thought.

Yep like an exoskeleton, but not your talking about Steel instead of the lighter AL.

Aaron

 

[michaels]

Defenders have a body solid mounted to a ladder frame. most often, those kind of roofrack are actually hyrbid exo/internal roll cages that double as roofrack.

although that looks like it's just a rack, by how it's mounted.