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PostPosted: Wed May 06, 2015 10:10 am    Post subject: Baja rack I have been working on Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Wed May 06, 2015 10:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Now that's a nice rack!
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PostPosted: Thu May 07, 2015 1:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Flush_Gordon337 wrote:
Now that's a nice rack!


Found it on Ebay thought the shape would work well on the bug
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PostPosted: Fri May 08, 2015 8:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

nice!!!!
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PostPosted: Sat May 09, 2015 10:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think you mounted it backwards
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PostPosted: Sat May 09, 2015 10:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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I think you mounted it backwards


no the air deflector faces forward but I did try it the other way and if I was not using the air foil as a light mount I may have ran it that way
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PostPosted: Sun May 10, 2015 3:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sweet. What kind of rack is that? I'm looking for something like that.
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PostPosted: Sun May 10, 2015 7:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Sweet. What kind of rack is that? I'm looking for something like that.


http://www.aaproductsinc.com/collections/racks
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PostPosted: Sun May 10, 2015 7:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Not the rack I was hoping to see...
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PostPosted: Mon May 11, 2015 4:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

dirtslinger wrote:
I think you mounted it backwards


Weird, the way you have it mounted is the way they show it is supposed to go on the website, but I do agree it looks like it should go the other way....
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PostPosted: Mon May 11, 2015 9:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dr OnHolliday wrote:
Not the rack I was hoping to see...

Sorry Very Happy
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PostPosted: Thu May 14, 2015 4:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bashr52 wrote:
dirtslinger wrote:
I think you mounted it backwards


Weird, the way you have it mounted is the way they show it is supposed to go on the website, but I do agree it looks like it should go the other way....


ok here it is sitting the other way I have not make a new light bar yet
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the lights will sit here
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so what way do I mount it?
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PostPosted: Fri May 15, 2015 8:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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I'm thinking your really not going to benefit from all those lights with it on this way..
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PostPosted: Fri May 15, 2015 8:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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I'm thinking your really not going to benefit from all those lights with it on this way..


no the lights will be mouted up front thats what the aluminum angle is for I just turned the rack around to see what it looks like, The other pictures show where the 5 lights will be mounted the plate the lights are mounted on now will be removed also
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PostPosted: Fri May 15, 2015 11:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I was being fececious BTW. I know it was hard to tell from the tone of my voice.
nice lookin bug. Is that a filler cap on the back quarter panel?
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PostPosted: Fri May 15, 2015 11:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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I was being fececious BTW. I know it was hard to tell from the tone of my voice.
nice lookin bug. Is that a filler cap on the back quarter panel?


Yea it has an aluminum tank beind the seat It (gas cap) will changed as soon as I find a filler that I like
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PostPosted: Tue May 19, 2015 12:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

here are some mock up pictures with the rack reversed

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PostPosted: Wed May 20, 2015 10:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

High Lift mounts mock up

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PostPosted: Wed May 20, 2015 10:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

mounts finished using locking lug nuts to slow down any would be thief

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PostPosted: Thu May 21, 2015 12:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think it looks great and more like it should turned around.
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