CJJ_98_XJ
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Yes, I have searched and found nothing on the pros/cons of this idea. Only found it mentioned once, and no replies to it either.
I am going to be building a custom roof rack here in the near future. I had the idea of removing the stock roof bars and track and laying a piece of flat bar in the stock track location and bolting it to the stock track mounts. My question is, would this be as strong/stronger/weaker than the traditional gutter mounts? Sure would be a lot easier to fab a mount like that than building your own gutter mounts. You could just put a small flat bar up there, bolt it down, tack right to it, remove for final welding/grinding/painting, then reinstall.
FWIW, I did notice where on of the vendors was doing something similar for a roof slider, only he drilled out the mounts and put in larger nutserts.
Thoughts/opinions on this kind of mount for a rack only mount? I'm wanting something that can hold possibly 250 pounds or so. My current rack design would utilize (5) of the stock holes per side, for a total of (10) bolting locations.
I am going to be building a custom roof rack here in the near future. I had the idea of removing the stock roof bars and track and laying a piece of flat bar in the stock track location and bolting it to the stock track mounts. My question is, would this be as strong/stronger/weaker than the traditional gutter mounts? Sure would be a lot easier to fab a mount like that than building your own gutter mounts. You could just put a small flat bar up there, bolt it down, tack right to it, remove for final welding/grinding/painting, then reinstall.
FWIW, I did notice where on of the vendors was doing something similar for a roof slider, only he drilled out the mounts and put in larger nutserts.
Thoughts/opinions on this kind of mount for a rack only mount? I'm wanting something that can hold possibly 250 pounds or so. My current rack design would utilize (5) of the stock holes per side, for a total of (10) bolting locations.