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I would see this shit after I buy new wheels, Damnit!

 

Did you put new dry socks on before you went to bed?

 

In my haste to get some sleep I skipped that part.. And paid for it!

 

I was averaging 14mpg. Honestly could barely tell it was back there with the OME suspension.

 

If this is the case, I'm shocked! Wow. Must be very light.

 

its a cool design, but damn the 40k tag...

 

That was the scout leader in me coming out, sorry,lol. I was a Boyscout leader and a Venturing crew leader and did a lot of backpacking and I would remind everyone before hitting the sac to change there socks and put the naleen water bottles in the sleeping bag with them to have water that wasn't frozen in the morning. I've been down to 11* in a 15* rated Marmot bag and was nice and cozey.

 

I was checking this thing out in gizmag.

 

Why custom cross bars? Doesn't the tent attach to the regular bars?

 

The ones I had made are super beefy so they don't flex. I had HD rhino rack bars but I would have to "offset" the tent a little to make it work. Not a big deal, but I'm a little OCD so I had them made.

 

Most bars are only rated upto 200lbs, inno,yakima,thule and such.

 

Yuppers. Then you factor in the forces transferred from the RTT with the bouncing of the truck all over the place, or 300 pounds of people and dog in the RTT... No bueno.

 

I wonder if you fill them with fiberglass epoxy or concrete and add center supports down to the bed frame how much they would hold, or change the inno/thule bars for solid steel bars with center supports. Wish I had an RTT and a couple of 300lb dudes to try it out.

 

Hmmm, now I really wish I had an RTT

 

Stainless??

I built an entire bed rack out of 1.5" HREW for half that..

 

But mine won't rust

 

I have to practice up on my welding, got any pictures of your rack?