Homemade Roofracks.

[jesusgatos]

Lots of nice racks. This is the roof-rack / cabover rack that I've built for Mah Deuce. It's not finished yet, but will eventually be fully enclosed over the cab, and will have solar panels and a rooftop patio with fold-up guard-rails and an easy-up-type awning on top of the box. It's made out of 2" x .120-wall HREW tubing and 16g sheetmetal. Designed the sheetmetal parts in SolidWorks and then had all the pieces laser-cut. Went together pretty easily for such a big assembly.

[BigAl]

did you butt weld the expanded metal in? looks really cool but i can't figure how you did it

[evldave]

A few roof racks I've made over the years...

Now on my Hummer, selling that and getting a newer Suburban, already looking forward to building the rack for that! (would be my 7th roof rack...2 for the Cherokee, 2 for the old Sub, 1 for the Hummer, and one for a friend's truck). Yay! I love building roof racks!

[Desert Dan]

evldave

I thought I carried alot of stuff on my H3

what year Suburban are you thinking of?

[evldave]

evldave

I thought I carried alot of stuff on my H3

what year Suburban are you thinking of?

hehe that was a light load, didn't include rocketbox, sea kayak or mtn bikes (all of which can fit at the same time)...needless to say, I've got a M416 trailer I'm in the process of fixing up (it'll have a rack, of course)...too much crap up top

Currently looking 2003-2006 Suburban...I like the newer interiors and on longer trips it's a lot more comfortable to have leather, DVD, etc...somehow I went from total minimalist to glamping in what seems like no time at all lol

[4307]

did you butt weld the expanded metal in? looks really cool but i can't figure how you did it

I took my sweet time and welded a Double-V butt weld.... Bottom right example....



The expanded steel was cut to fit the inside edge of the angle iron frame.
I welded both sides (top and bottom), welding the expanded steel to the angle iron, then a once over with a grinder.

[Rev]

I did not build this rack. But the guy who did, Dephep, built one for himself, and the next thing you know he is making them in his garage for a dozen people. He built this one custom for me.

[TRDFAN]

cool idea's REV. I like the hi-lift mount. Also wondering how you are doing your wiring for all those lights?! I plan on doing lights on the sides as well, can't wait to see how yours turns out.

[R_Lefebvre]

Rev, can you show some more pictures of the rack? I think I really like that, but it's hard to see the rack itself. I've been wanting to build a rack that works with the factory 2.5" tubes on my Land Rover, similar to what you have.

[SafariPacific]

Here's my first roof rack. Held at least 200lbs at any given time.