Yes.

 

Nice looking roof rack. Yeah solidworks is a great program. Definately go with aluminum or really lite steel. As far as mounting, you could just drill holes in the rack and your current crossmembers and bolt it thru with a cotter pin (like what you would see on a prop nut for a boat motor).

Here is a link to a Aluminum Welding guide (another one). Hope they help out.

 

Yeah for custom racks!

 

I wish I could weld...although I must say...two clicks of the mouse was all it took me to get my roof rack ready to mount

 

yes they do.

and i was thinking of screwing it right to those cross bars but i still want to keep it in good working condition. but i suppose that wouldnt really hurt or wreck anything.

and thanks for the link to aluminum welding but its very tricky to do. and i mean i dont care if its a couple pounds heavier.

 

U bolts would work pretty good, but you would need to put a piece of molded rubber in the bend of the U to full grab the bar. Think about an unfortunate collision. A poorly attached rack will make for quite the effective projectile.

 

94blueknight, do you have a link to that program? I was wanting to build a roof rack and think that would help me out.



Thanks,Shane

 

Solid Works is VERY expensive for the full CAD version. We can get it through NC State University as an engineering student for free...but they check 2 photo id's and you have to take your pc to them to get it installed.

There are a few nifty little programs that you might be able to use...basically watered down versions...but they are all here on the Solid Works website.

 

like wolfpack said solid works is very expensive. i get it free on my labtop from school cuz i'm taking engineering classes and we use it alot. but u can download the free trail off of solidworks website. i'm not sure what it is but just do a google search.