Homemade Roof Rack Platform

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.

Homemade roof rack platform.

Cut the channel into lengths. The rack was mounted on the four vibration mounts with 3 4 clearance holes through the double sheet metal of the roof. In the companion instructable i used re purposed oak from shipping platforms that. Here is the rack mounted.

In this video we show how to build your own roof rack for your car or van. And finally the finished product with the light bar mounted. I hope you enjoyed this build log and perhaps it will inspire you to do the same. Avoid drilling too deep into the roof of the car.

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. Ensure that the roof rack is in position and properly adjusted leaving good space at the centre. Steel has always been a popular diy roof rack option as it is easy to acquire and relatively inexpensive. 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.

In this episode we decided build our own roof rack and deck for your sprinter for around 200. If you have factory roof racks that run from front to back you can build your own steel. 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.

Expose the bolt holes.