badron said:
I redid the stock rails myself after pulling them lose 2 times. Big job compared to gutter mounts but I like the factory look myself.
WildernessJeep
Sweet rig
I like you rack setup. Going to barrow it, Maybe simpler to suit my taste. Thanks for the idea.
Front bumper is fine to. Like that hide a wench. Weld it up your self? If so. Got plans you could upload.
Better yet just sell me your Jeep
No plans, just pics. I just kinda "made it". I want to tell you that this is the first thing I have ever fabricated. Never even held a welder prior to making the roof rack. A hole saw and an angle grinder will pretty much do it. Email me and I'll send you some pics of the fabrication process.
Simpler is cool, but I have to say (in light of the fact that we have completly hijacked the original thread) is that the rack will still carry all the toys. I have already made a ski rack, and I built a bike rack into the main bed of the rack, but the great feature is that if I take up a new hobby, say kayaking, I could fab up a new kayak rack out of some tubing, and "plug" it in. When I want to go skiing, I just unplug the kayak rack, plug in the ski rack, and off I go.
The corner posts in the rear are hollow 1 1/2" (??) tube, which fits the standard 1" tubing used everywhere else very nicely. It was just a scrap piece I picked up at the steel yard. In the front, I mounted a shorter section, about 2" long (see picture below) onto an angular brace. You can also see the bike rack mounts in the bed. I'll try to get a picture of the ski rack the next time I'm up in Colorado. I just leave my ski's up there.
A small hole drilled for a shear pin in each end, and I just slide the rack in, put in a shear pin and can carry any toy I want. I had a rack for my windsurfer, but let it go with the board last summer. The other side has the mounting system too so I could actually mount 8 pairs of ski's if I had to, but the CB antenna gets in the way, and would have to be in the down position to use the passenger side mounts. If I were going to do it again, I'd put the CB antenna in the middle of the top rear tube.