rear swings are nice, yet very pricey. i would get one if they weren't $1,000 just my spare 32 is just gonna sit in my jeep

 

I have one just like it. Got it from Sears.

 

just made these. have the rails across for my aluminum boat so i dont have to have 2x4's and be ghetto.

 

i have the same axe as well but a little smaller and its a Gerber from LL Bean

 

I got it from local Walmart.

 

i've been building my own racks in the middle tennessee area but have been purchasing surco guttermount brackets to go with them.

i like them alot but would like to be able to offer my own similar design.

instead of welding the gutter mounts on they would be adjustable side to side to accomodate different vehicles just as the surco mounts are.






i'm going to make a tire carrier for a guy that just ordered a rack but here's a shot of my special one-off mount that i made while working at a polyurethane plant.










and as far as the gutter mount strength, i've had 1 stick of 1x2, 2 sticks of 1x1, and a stick of 1/4" flatbar up there with no re percussions,

just yesterday i was using it as a scaffold to chop limbs out of a tree out front.

and i'm 270

it doesn't even seem to flinch.

my only worries are with the mounts themselves as they seem made of rather thin metal.

but the gutters seem very stout.

i've even heard people putting a jeep back on its wheels by pulling on a gutter mounted rack

 

I don't mean to bring a thread back from the dead, but just thought I would share my home-brew gutter mounts and see what ya'll think. With materials and hardware it cost me under $20 to make 8, 4 for each side. Made from 1/4 inch thick, 1" wide steel. Might not be pretty but they are cheap and sturdy as hell!







My design for the rack I plan on building:

 

Very nice, do the door tops clear the 1/4" steel there? I know it's pretty tight, I had some old aluminum gutter mounts that I tried using but they wouldn't clear the door.

 

I had to grind the bottom a little to taper the bottom some, but it clears the doors (barely).

 

What program is that and where can I get the file for the Jeep? That's killer.

Be warned, when your rig is flexed it might not clear.

 

Looks like google sketch up. But that's some wicked designing on that program if it is. I have tinkered on that program a couple of times to design a couple of different styles of bumpers for my xj. Great job by the way.

 

Yes the program is called SketchUp. I have the "pro" version, but its not much different from the free version. You can import other peoples designs, that's how I got the jeep in there.

 

Here's what I did

 

Here is my rack mount:



And my rack:

 

Nice rack. I can't stand racks that are rectangle on top of rectangle without some angle in there. Do you have something protecting the lights from the rear? I'd be worried about cargo messing up their alignment.