Ya I agree I kept banging them on trees and stuff where they were to. Hopefully I will get more use out of them back there. I use my rear ones all the time.
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Umm I guess he has a broke one also and your getting it :) LOL
A few pics
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Ooooh, pretty.
Those will come in handy just cruising down the dusty road through Uwharrie. You can't see anyone in front of or behind you the whole time.
it isnt broken, it is missing the clip that holds it to the rail. Which requires a 10MM nut.
Well, If I get rear ended now the person is blind as a bat.
I guess a steal bumper with a giant stinger on it will solve that problem LOL
Ok I put my new shocks on which meant the extra lift gained would once again keep me out of the garage. Well I decided to go with 7/8 shallow unistrut its the stuff you hang pipes from buildings and is pretty strong. It comes with all sorts of stuff to mount in the channel so the mounting possibilities are endless.
Unistrut
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Cut and painted to length then mounted up.
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Close up to roof line
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And of course the fishing rod holders had to go back on :cool:
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This mod dropped the top of my basket about 2" maybe a little more. The best thing is you can run wires down the channel and mount stuff to it with off the shelf hardware. I also think unistrut might make a pretty good light bar as well. The total for this mod wan $18.
I like that & of thinking of redoing the way my rack is connected to the jeep.
Thanks you cant get the rack any closer to the roof really then this. The bottom of the basket sits right above my satellite receiver in the back.
now that you brought that up, how is your reception with the sat receiver with the basket right above it?
I don't use the radio but the Nav unit works just fine no issues I'm just assuming there on the same antenna.
Hmm didn't think of that, I am not sure if they use the same one or not. You answer one question & now there is another one that needs an answer lol
Thats awesome bro! I thought about the unistrut but went with aluminum instead. But you have all knds of mounting options now, brilliant.
I was thinking about how to do this for some time now and considered dozens of options. After holding the uni-strut and realizing how light it was and knowing how strong it is plus all the options and stuff they make for mounting stuff to them it was a easy decision for me. The real test for this and the new shocks will be this weekend I will have my normal beach load which last trip caused the rear to sag pretty bad.
Sal, Where are you heading this weekend? Ill be out in OBX next weekend. God I cant wait. Beers and Beach doesnt get better..oh yea my babe and the Jeep
Dude that's an awesome idea!!!
I'd even consider putting 3 of these bars across for overkill support.
What do you have in the channel that's clamping it down, just some washers? I was thinking of doing something similar but using some 1/8" steel plate on the under side to really get a lot of clamp force. I bend those grade 5 fender washers pretty easily...
We are staying at the point. Way down at the bottom of the Island. We dont mess with North 12. Thats a tourist trap. We roll south and act like locals.
Oh and BTW, this picture makes this stuff look like its 15" wide!
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I used some giant washers from lowes and put some torque on them and they didn't bend but my grade 5 ones did LOL. I'm going to go get more of this stuff as well because now its like a lego set up there who knows what you can come up with.
lol
Have any pictures from further back so we can see how the rack sits now? And what size rack is that again?
Sal what size is your basket? Seriously thinking about ordering one now for the trip down. Could def use it. I found one that is like 63x45 or something like that.
Let me see if I can get more pictures.
It's like 62.5X45 I have a thread on it here http://www.xk-forum.com/showthread.p...ge+roof+basket
Good stuff... thinking of having Doc make a 4x6 for me soon, this is definitely good motivation!
Ive been thinking for a while that we should do a beach camp, somewhere in Carolina. Ive driven on the beach at Corolla and done some fishing but have never actually camped on the beach. That would be a fantastic long weekend trip, don't know if I would camp out there for a week vacation. Maybe next summer ?
I'm uploading more pictures now. A week camping on the beach might be a little rough LOL a weekend seems perfect to me.
Front view
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Rear View
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A shot of the hardware used
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Clearance shot
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Well I just joined the rage rack family. She just ordered it as my birthday present. Hopefully it gets here by the29th! We leave the 30th
My carwash incident with the rack and lights made me feel like a total idiot. Thats all I have to say about that.