Re: THe NAC Lots-O-Post Thread
I love sweet pickles and 94 xj senders
Sooo...you want it, or no?
I love that roof rack thread in mod tech.
Usually you buy a roof rack because you need storage space.
Not because it's cool and are looking for ideas of things to put up there.
Back when I still gave a shit about answering dumb threads, whenever anyone would ask "what should I buy next for my rig?", my answer was always to take whatever money you wanna spend on parts, and use it to go wheeling instead. You'll eventually find out for yourself what you wanna spend on money on.
Same thing with deciding what bullshit to carry with you. If you're cool with carrying a few hundred pounds of sockets and wrenches while your rig sounds like a train wreck going down the trail, so you can be "that guy" who has everything to fix everyone else's rig, more power to ya.
Maybe I'm just jaded (and exceptionally bitter today, for some reason), but to me this whole sport is about self-expression and trial and error. If I gave a shit about what anyone else wanted me to do, would I really be attempting to run a TTB 35 front end? :laugh:
Hey man a jeep on 35s doesn't look right at the mall without a roof rack, what's the guy supposed to do?
Should I make a roof rack out of a plastic shelving unit? I think it will hold up and no one makes multi level roof racks
I built my roof rack out of conduit. Literally, straight shots of 3/4" EMT conduit, with 90* elbows, and the little couplings with set screws on each end. I framed it out like that and welded cross braces to the galvanized tube without cleaning it first. I used reinforcing mesh for concrete as a floor instead of expanded steel because that was the closest thing I could find at Home Depot. It was held to my (homebrew) roof rack bars by a mix of Home Depot u-bolts and small exhaust clamps. That piece of shit carried my spare tire, hi-lift, strap, and 4 lights for almost 3 years.
