Homemade Roof Rack Platform

In the companion instructable i used re purposed oak from shipping platforms that.

Homemade roof rack platform.

To attach the. Avoid drilling too deep into the roof of the car. Diy photography roof rack platform for pickup or suv bryan maltais october 26 2013 january 12th 2015 for roadside photography an elevated photography platform attached to the roof rack of my truck has proven a much used and invaluable tool. The rack was mounted on the four vibration mounts with 3 4 clearance holes through the double sheet metal of the roof.

Ensure that the roof rack is in position and properly adjusted leaving good space at the centre. In this episode we decided build our own roof rack and deck for your sprinter for around 200. Homemade roof rack with accessories step 1. In this video we show how to build your own roof rack for your car or van.

Cut the channel into lengths. These four aluminum blocks will be the base points of the rack. Here is the rack mounted. After getting rid of my roof basket and adding a narrow roof box i was looking for an affordable customizable way to mount a few more items along the other.

Using a flat head screw driver assemble the roof rails to the top of the car by sxrewing the side rails and the cross bars together. We were checking out an aluminess rack but were stoked on th. I built this rack out of super strut aka unistrut and mounted it to my 2015 ford. If you have factory roof racks that run from front to back you can build your own steel.

I hope you enjoyed this build log and perhaps it will inspire you to do the same.