ERMB's D-I-Y Rack System Build

I was joking. No way am I putting a hole in the roof that didn't come like that from the factory.

 

Read my above post.

 

That's what I meant the whole time, picture is worth a 1000 words

 

Did you read what I said earlier? Even if you cut the pipe at the bottom to make it strait, the bolt holes are still at an angle...

 

I've got you, modified version incoming in about 10 minutes I have to head to my next class...... I have a solution.

 

skip your class! i need answers! lol.

 

if we get this figured out I'm totes making one of these

 

no. the longest 10 minutes of my life was driving home from work after i knew the ebay bumper was delivered... if you remember that crap.

 

okay now i wait patiently. for this solution

 

I'm going to go outside and actually make sure the front bolt holes are actually at an angle... i will laugh so hard if they are strait up.... stand by

 

definitely a slight angle. not as much as i thought it was. but theres an angle for sure

 

Now I want to build a cab rack, and I don't even need one.

 

everyone needs a rack

 

You're right. I need two racks.

 

It's gonna take ERMB 10 minutes to get caught up in this thread.

 

Sorry my class need a little more attention than I was expecting, but I've been building a few mounts lately for other projects around the truck and this might be your silver bullet.
It's 16 gauge steel sheet. Cuts easy enough with a grinding wheel or jig saw with a metal blade and if you have a vice or strong clamps you can bend it with a mallet or brute force. Same thickness of of steel used on joist hangers for construction.

 

Here's the mount I made for my compressor out of the same material.

 

So you think I'll be able to bend it with my strength and a mallet. But it will be fine to support the weight that it will take?

 

Yes, with some brute strength you can definitely bend it, and because your essentially creating a C channel it's quite strong. remember the weight is going to be distributed along all three bolted positions but from a top down strength is still going to be able to bear pretty much what ever you can dish out.

 

Hmmm. I like the idea. But I don't know if I'll be able to bend it precise enough. And it's only bolting into the front and rear holes. The middle is no dice