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BajaCowboy
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Look in the second link sxuxrxf posted above. There's a picture of my mount and one similar below mine near the bottom of the first page.
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bartman
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Oh, look at that! I asked the same question a year ago. Well, that's embarrassing. 
I guess I really should get started on that rack! 
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allencoal1975
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I made mine out of 3/4" and 1/2" conduit. I think it turned out pretty good. |
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bajacole
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| chubby53 wrote: | made mine out of 1/2" .120 wall tubing, used a 3/4" emt hand bender to bend it all. turned out pretty good if i do say so myself.
i think it wieghs in at about 65lbs. |
Hey Chubby where did you find the rain gutter clips for the roof rack?? I feel uneasy at the thought of drilling my roof to mount it to the cage. Did you have to cut them off a prebuilt rack? |
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riNR
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3/4" .063 wall crew tube bent with EMT bender welded on 110V rosin core mig:
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chubby53
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Location: Eugene, Oregon
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| bajacole wrote: | | chubby53 wrote: | made mine out of 1/2" .120 wall tubing, used a 3/4" emt hand bender to bend it all. turned out pretty good if i do say so myself.
i think it wieghs in at about 65lbs. |
Hey Chubby where did you find the rain gutter clips for the roof rack?? I feel uneasy at the thought of drilling my roof to mount it to the cage. Did you have to cut them off a prebuilt rack? |
i made em myself. Hindsight.... I should of made the rack narrower with more of an angel to the gutters cause they like to pop off. I had to drill and tap through the drip rail to the clips and put in a screw to hold in place for just in caseys. I have had a roof rack launch off my old baja and land in front of me going down a whoop road,.
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enjoyther1de
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[quote="allencoal1975"]
I made mine out of 3/4" and 1/2" conduit. I think it turned out pretty good.[/quo
I would drive that water pumper.
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allencoal1975
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| Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2012 6:56 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | I would drive that water pumper. |
thanks I hope to get some sprint bars made for it today. |
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jorge8amz
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| sxuxrxf wrote: | .065" with JD2 bender, no kinks.
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your rack looks real nice. Did you have some more picture ?  |
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tobiism
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I haven't finished mine yet but I made it out of 1/2" gas pipe bent with a conduit bender.
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Snappy
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Excellent topic, I've been looking at racks for my baja (still a ways down the list tho) and literally only found 1 heavy duty rack that was actualy being produced and runs $500-700 http://bugzyla.com/roofrack.html don't get me wrong thats a nice rack and just what Im looking for but for that price I might as well buy a MIG welder which I'm going to have to buy anyway (and should have along time ago) and mats, I don't know anything about metal prices but I'm thinking between the welder and accessories and materials...maybey a basic tubing bender, Id be spending little more than the cost of that $700 rack, and Id come out of it with a welder etc...
| twomonkeysayoyo wrote: | | and, as an alternative, the Yakima Megawarrior with raingutters is super flexible though not near as cool as home-made. I got this because I could easily switch it to my 4runner in case of catastrophe or full family beach trip. |
I have an older Thule rack with square tubes and gutter attachments, It would have just worked perfect, but we have a rag top and there was almost no clearance between roof and rack, I was wanting to throw my road bike on top...but then I couldn't cruise with the top back  ..
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