The new deck that I have on my Commander bolted directly too the legs attached to the rails, I do not have cross bars anymore.
The new deck that I have on my Commander bolted directly too the legs attached to the rails, I do not have cross bars anymore.
2006 XK Limited, 5.7L Hemi
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Wooot... put the kids to bed nice and early and was able to get some work done.
I think i'm getting close to a workable design
Note that I offset the bolts a bit to the exterior of the vehicle. That's to clear a 48" wide rack at the rear-most mounts. The rack will almost touch the top clamping plate.
Why don't you quit screwing around and build the darn thing already! I honestly don't have plans for anything I build except a couple bumpers that are production items. I just start making it, then if I like it I reverse engineer it.
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Originally Posted by IamJEEP
Because I don't have a building full of material stock to play around with.
One of the benefits of 3D modeling. I change the design hundreds of times and not spend a penny
That's what I would miss most if I sold my shop ... all the "drop" I have to play with
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Matt this was a quote from the other thread that got my attention and why I was so many questions on about doing it to my rack now.
"Then I would just machine those mounts that I'm developing to clamp around those 1" diameter bars and completely eliminate the need for load bars. The rack can't get much more low pro than that...... "
Post 28 on the other thread.
My roof rack does not have a mesh or floor cover so that idea would work for me to bring the roof rack lower to the jeep roof & do away from load or cross bars & attach the roof rack to roof rails on the roof of the jeep
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(Happy Jeep)
I think you misunderstood what I meant.
By having Doc make my roof rack, i'm hoping he can have 3 of the crossbars used as the floor extend a few inches out on each side. These would effectively work as load bars and would be clamped directly in my mounts.
These images should help:
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