BS: DIY Roof Rack?

Subject: RE: BS: DIY Roof Rack?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 22 Oct 08 - 12:32 PM

For rain-leakproof fasteners, I'd go with the ones linked upthread.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: DIY Roof Rack?
From: Gurney
Date: 22 Oct 08 - 05:57 PM

I've built four trailers, one for a boat, and it is not a job that I'd recommend as a saturday afternoon hoot. They were all built with new steel and required considerable tools and skills.

The idea of using the back of a pick-up/ute works, but it still needs a purpose-made tow bar on the trailer, designed for the body that it is going onto. The differential should be removed from axle to save needless friction. The brakes too, unless the intention is to link them up, which is not a job for the tyro.

Our local builders chain sells trailers at barely more than the cost of the materials. They are made in China, and not bad. I wouldn't build another trailer unless I needed something specialised, it isn't worth the effort. Unless the effort is the object of the exercise.

Subject: RE: BS: DIY Roof Rack?
From: GUEST,Chris J.
Date: 15 Apr 09 - 01:54 PM

I re-engineered my Saturn roof rack to fit both my Vue and L200
http://www.flickr.com/photos/algonquinpaddler/3063936390/

Subject: RE: BS: DIY Roof Rack?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 15 Apr 09 - 02:04 PM

A good option is rear hatch/trunk entry are not needed is the hitch-carried rack that sits over the rear bumper. Less wind drag/gas mileage attrition.

~S~