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Old May 7, 2010 | 01:39 AM
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dang it turned out great!! Looks good with the stuff mounted and painted. Also you are right about the square corners
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Old May 7, 2010 | 07:41 AM
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Originally Posted by mcnslayer
hey bro next time you get bored make me one lol
lol will do

Originally Posted by Ritter4.0
Overkill much? lol

Great job!

My rack is still in pieces in the back of my jeep till I get a chop saw to make square cuts.....
and ya a lil more than what is needed, but wanted no open spaces and plenty of places to tie down to. and i had the metal shop cut all my pieces to size.
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Old May 7, 2010 | 07:46 AM
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Originally Posted by 94xjstud

and ya that was my first choice, but i built the rack for less than the cost of 6 of those gutter mounts and they dont sit high enough so, im makin my own. im just gonna use some 2" flat bar and bend it at roughly 30 degrees and gusset the backside, then use some channel to sandwich em to the drip rails.
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Old Jul 1, 2010 | 07:49 PM
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Originally Posted by mcnslayer
hey bro next time you get bored make me one lol
X2! Hey I'm new to CF and man this is a good looking rack! You should make a few of them in your spare time and see if theyll sell... I'd imagine so!
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Old Jul 7, 2010 | 01:54 AM
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very nice think im gonna be copying your design Notice any noise well doing highways speeds?
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Old Jul 7, 2010 | 02:41 AM
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Originally Posted by Sasq40
very nice think im gonna be copying your design Notice any noise well doing highways speeds?
nope, none at all
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Old Jul 7, 2010 | 02:24 PM
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gotta get some lights runnin on her too, how much you think it weighs? you got alot of extra supports in there, ive built two rack outa 1 1/2" conduit pipe, its a lighter then normal pipe and for this application its plenty strong enough, but same thing happened to me, i got bored, had some pipe layin around...so i welded up a roof rack
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Old Jul 12, 2010 | 03:18 AM
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Awesome.
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Old Jul 12, 2010 | 07:44 AM
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nice job man looks like the first one i made
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