Building A Roof Rack

In this video i ll show you my new roof rack for the zombie jeep and then i ll show you how i used the tubing bender and tube notcher to make it.

Building a roof rack.

Hoist the trusses onto the roof. This can be done either with many pairs of hands or with the assistance of a crane. You d be better off just taking two long poles laying them across the siderails and tying them down with cord. I ve always wanted a rack for my pickup buy didn t want to pay the high price and thought i could build my own out of electrical conduit.

But at the cost of a huge loss of strength. Great set up and will work great as a roof rack. I ve used this material before for lots of things and wanted to give it a shot. Avoid drilling too deep into the roof of the car.

This can be very dangerous hence should be controlled. No weld truck roof rack. Building a roof rack 4 1 4 bolts 16 1 diameter 1 4 washers 4 3 16 lock washers and a few other hardware tools will be needed for you to start this project. Use ladders or scaffolding if you are building the roof onto a building that is still a frame.

To complete this step the wall frames of the building must already be level plumb and square. If you have factory roof racks that run from front to back you can build your own steel crossmembers using one inch square tubing cut to size and secured to the factory racks using carriage bolts. Ensure that the roof rack is in position and properly adjusted leaving good space at the centre. Admirably you have made a low profile rack.

The 1st generation 4runner is an iconic suv mostly because of its classic style and removable hard top camper. Yakima is the world s leading brand of car racks including roof racks bike racks hitch racks and many more for all of life s adventures. In the article below we will walk you through the planning and design and the building of the roof rack that we use on our 1st generation 4 runner. I don t own a welder so that wa.

New custom roof rack supporting our tent in alamogordo nm.