Attaching gear to your roof rack

[NeilSmith]

Like this :

seriously, I bought two black storage boxes from Wallyworld. They have a hinged lid and two latches. They arent waterproof so I just use them for camping gear. Found out the first time not to put a bag of marshmallows in there in July. Everything big like that gets strapped with cinch-straps, not ratchets but ones with buckles that you just pull tight. All other stuff gets bungees. I bought 3 big packs of bungees and a dozen cinch straps at Wallyworld. Extras have really come in handy.

[Sal-XK]

I always use what I have laying around or try to make it before buying anything for stuff like this. I use mics parts from lowes to mount my lights and my fishing rod holders as well. For my side lights I just grabbed a bolt and a handful of washers and stuff and made it work.

Fishing rod holders I think the brackets are for a door or something like that


Mounted my side lights like this

[NeilSmith]

oh yeah, I made this surf rod holder out of a steel plate and welded on some exhaust tubing. it is bolted to the receiver rack.

[CmmdrDan]

I had my tool box up there last night. It weighs are 40 lbs. it's an old 40mm ammo box full with just about all I need. I had it held down with to bungees. Drove about 15 miles and it didn't budge. When we went down to the box I had a cargo net, straps and bungees holding things down.

[ped4599]

Just a note....I found out last summer at WCCC, that no matter how secure and solid everything feels, its going to shift...if you do a lot of crawling with side to side motion, lots of weight up there will take its toll on the rails and the cross members. After Grizzly Lake and Chinaman Gulch I had some bent cross members and the rails were starting to separate in the corners. After many many hours of continuous flopping from side to side over rocks i could tell I had too much weight, all of which i have had up there many times before with no issue regular trails.

[Sal-XK]

Tires way a lot and that high lift aint light either. I never wheeled with stuff up there I usually unload at camp. Except for the light wheeling needed to get to the camp sight.