Custom Roof Basket Build Thread

I started work on my cargo basket. I figured I'd start a thread on it because I couldn't find much good info on building a custom basket/rails. I'll be building my own rails to mount to the roof in order to increase the payload limit. I'll update this thread (and the one at TN) as I build. Let me know what yall think.

Concept:


Build:

 

Cool!

 

That looks real good. Is it steel or alum?

 

Steel. The round tube is EMT conduit, and the rectangular tube is 16ga steel.

 

I like it so far, can't wait to see the finished product.

 

Here's a little update guys. Sorry for the crummy pics.










It's coming along!

 

very nice, good job!

 

looks great... that's a tight squeeze under the garage door! haha

good work

 

Wish I knew how to weld...

 

Looks great so far, can't wait to see it with the lights in it. Is that designed in Solidworks?

 

looks like mine. i like how you used rectangular tubing for the base.

 

Hey man! Yours ofcourse was my inspiration. I had to make some changes in my design. It was really difficult getting the light hoop how I wanted it in the original design, so I wound up making it look like a continuous bend. Bending conduit the way you want it takes some practice.

I went with the rectangular cross-braces so that I could mount stuff to it easier in the future.

 

The angle of the picture makes it look tighter than it is. It will be a very tight squeeze though. I think once the cross bars are mounted I'll have about 2 inches of clearance.

 

i would strongly suggest putting a piece of plexiglass or something similar over the lights to double as a fering. the wind noise off the lights was unbearable without it.

 

Here's a quick sketch of the crossbars I plan on building to mount the basket too. The crossbars will be mounted to the existing M6 holes in the roof. I'm gonna mount the basket in a way that it will be easily removeable. There will have to be some contours build into the crossbars that I don't have expressed on the drawing(for time sake) but that will be handled while building.

 

Can't wait to see the finished product.

 

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Small little update. Everything is done on the basket except cleaning up the welds and obviously paint. I think it's turning out awesome! Let me know what you guys think!

Light tabs:


Tabs for bolting on the ferring:




Tabs for rear lights if I decide to add them later:


Use the bat for scale


The puppy approves!

 

Great rack and cute pup