Rage Cargo Basket Installed

[IamJEEP]

First, I had to make some new cross rails that were lower profile (so i can park in the garage at work). I used curtain alluminum rails that we use at work. Cut them to length and test fitted them..............

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Continued............

[IamJEEP]

Then I sprayed them with undercoating/bed liner stuff and installed them in their resting area..........

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I gained 1.25"s of lower profile....with the sport bars (including the mounts) it was a total of 4"s high.......with my home-mades it came out to be 2 3/4"s high.

Continued..............

[IamJEEP]

Then it was time for the basket.......Originally i planned on widening and lengthening it because i wanted a little bigger basket but, I ended up just putting it together and seeing how it looked.........I'm glad I did, it fills the roof of the XK pretty well and I did'nt think I needed to mod it any.....Sometime in the future I will fab up a custom basket from scratch but, for now i'll rock the Rage......I picked this basket because of Sal's review and torture tests......Anywho, on to the pics.....

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I still have to mount some rear facing lights and make a light bar for the front, but thats a differrent thread..................I'm out!!!!

[superacerc]

That looks great! It's amazing to look at your first garage pics and then these. Big changes have happened.

[Matt]

Looks good.

What size bolts are holding those cross rails to the mounts though? They look a bit small...

[IamJEEP]

That looks great! It's amazing to look at your first garage pics and then these. Big changes have happened.

Thanks bro, yeah its change some. Lol...

[IamJEEP]

Looks good.

What size bolts are holding those cross rails to the mounts though? They look a bit small...

Same ones that hold the OEM Sport rails. I figure they hold those, they can hold these.

Thanks for the compliment.

[cico7]

I agree the bolts that hold the roof racks on look long and thin. They are a 10mm thread.
Which is what, close to 1/4"?

Good work ! looks sharp. What is the "curtain rail" you mentioned?

[LWM]

Another fine looking mod!

[IamJEEP]

I agree the bolts that hold the roof racks on look long and thin. They are a 10mm thread.
Which is what, close to 1/4"?

Good work ! lloks sharp. What is the "curtain rail" you mentioned?

It's close to 1/4 but not quite......The curtain rail is just that, you install it on the ceiling and hang a curtain from it. the curtain is able to slide open and closed for privacy. Have you ever been in a hospital room where they have a curtain you can pull to separate the patients? Well, that's exactly what it is.

[IamJEEP]

Another fine looking mod!

Thank you Sir.

[Sal-XK]

Looking good bro, your XK looks better and better all the time sweet. :)

[IamJEEP]

Looking good bro, your XK looks better and better all the time sweet. :)

Thanks homie, trying to keep up with the Jonesses... LOL.

[Sal-XK]

I really like the new rails gaining all that extra clearance thats sweet. The lower you keep it I think the better your MPG will be as well.

[IamJEEP]

I dont know yet if it'll kill my mpg by a lot or a little, havn't driven it much today. But, I will tell you that its quiet as far as wind noise. Took it out on the highway up to 80mph and didn't really notice any extra wind noise.

[cico7]

The driving lights will be like sea anchors on the road. I think the roof rack will have little effect, by it self on gas mileage. It's all the stuff you put in it that will
make a dfference. The wind deflector should help.

[Sal-XK]

I lost like 1 MPG just with my two little lights square lights I put up front.

[IamJEEP]

I lost like 1 MPG just with my two little lights square lights I put up front.

Do you have close up pics of how you mounted said lights? Also of the rear facing ones as well.

[Sal-XK]

I know I do of the rear ones. The fronts not sure but that pic wouldn't help anyway because I have them rigged to my basket mounts which were using different mounts.

[Sal-XK]

This aint a great picture I'll have to get a better one. But I basicly used the bolt holding the basket together and put a kinda L shaped bracket on there from lowes.

[superacerc]

Picture?

[Sal-XK]

Picture?

Doing to many things at once again this the second time I've done that LOL
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[superacerc]

I've done it plenty. Glad there's an edit button.

[IamJEEP]

Do the lights bounce around a lot with those "L" brackets?

[Sal-XK]

No but since there rear lights I'm usually going pretty slow in revers :) sorry couldn't resist. The best light mount is using the stock cross rails and drilling holes in them for lights the sport ones not the thicker ones.