Building A Roof Rack

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.

Building a roof rack.

But at the cost of a huge loss of strength. I don t own a welder so that wa. You d be better off just taking two long poles laying them across the siderails and tying them down with cord. Use ladders or scaffolding if you are building the roof onto a building that is still a frame.

New custom roof rack supporting our tent in alamogordo nm. No weld truck 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. Avoid drilling too deep into the roof of the car.

It has the capability to carry heavyweights. 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. Hoist the trusses onto the roof. 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. This can be very dangerous hence should be controlled. This can be done either with many pairs of hands or with the assistance of a crane. 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. 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. I ve always wanted a roof rack for my land cruiser but the commercially available options didn t fit my needs so i made a custom one come see how. 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.