Roof rack on roll cage?

[daddycreswell]

I thought it would be an good to have a roof rack on top of the roll cage. I drive the EB to baseball and football practice often, and with 2 boys carrying bat bags, catching gear, helmet and shoulder pads, water coolers etc it's hard to get it all in the back. Anyone have something like this? Did you buy it or build it? Pictures, thanks

 

[Derekryan84]

I'm pretty sure that will be simple if you never use a soft top.

 

[daddycreswell]

I'm pretty sure that will be simple if you never use a soft top.

I was thinking something with a quick release so that when I put the hard top back on I can pop it off, and also if I ever do get a soft top.

 

[gddyap]

I have this one:

http://www.discountramps.com/roof-top-basket.htm

Used it on a Rubicon trip in June. I'll try to post some pictures. I just used some u-bolts to secure it. For the price and time saved it wasn't worth attempting to build something. It's fully welded compared to some that you bolt two halves together. But it's on the heavy side. I put the lightweight camping gear in it like sleeping bags and camp chairs to keep the center of gravity from being too high. That website has a few different sizes.

 

[sprdv1]

I was thinking something with a quick release so that when I put the hard top back on I can pop it off, and also if I ever do get a soft top.

Definitely can be done man and a great idea...

 

[brewchief]

I've thought one like this one from poly would pretty nice, http://www.polyperformance.com/shop/Synergy-Universal-Baja-Basket-p-18726.html

 

[Airborne69]

I've actually had the same idea for quite a long time now. I want to use something like these to make the rack easily removable:

 

[Derekryan84]

Fourtreks has other mounting options too. Parallel like airborne69 posted or perpendicular.

 

[Airmapper]

I hope you guys come up with some good ideas and post them, because if I ever get my rig where I want it, a roof rack is going to be absolutely necessary. I want to take my 12' fishing kayak to the lake on top the Bronco. It sure ain't going to fit in the back.

 

[gnsteam]

Heres a link to a Bronco with a pretty sweet rack.

http://www.bronco-works.com/

 

[daddycreswell]

Heres a link to a Bronco with a pretty sweet rack.

http://www.bronco-works.com/

Sweet, I wonder how it is mounted with the soft top on? I emailed the guy to see if he could help me out with more information. I also found another picture, but this one is mounted on the roll car so a soft top wouldn't work

 

[HB73]

My Canback top has holes where the racks attach. With the screws tightened down on the rubber grommets, there is no leakage. The racks attach to the Canback frame directly. Unfortunately, it's back in paint for final touchup before finish assembly, so no pics currently.

 

[gddyap]

Going through a section of Rubicon Springs. You can see my 2yo peeking through the cage. The basket is just secured with 4 u-bolts. It has a couple camp chairs and two duffles. Duffles have sleeping bags, sleeping pads, and clothes. The straps holding the duffles down do go around the cage. My wife made the white canvas top over the rear to shade the kids. It's held on with velcro and a couple bungee cords. Worst part was driving on the road back. The wind is deflected down right onto the driver and passenger. Not so bad when it's 70* but when it's 108* it sucks.

 

[JustinFro]

 

[motoman]

Here's a link to a bunch of ideas!!!

Roof rack pictures

As far as attaching.....

• without top you could weld to top of rollbar
• without top you could take a slightly larger diameter piece of pipe and cut to wrap top half and bolt into cage
• with top put a runner peice along side uptubes and bolt to cage...

Just ton of ideas..... if you are handy with fab tool (welder, grinder, cutoff, taps, etc) the options are limited to your's and other's imagination

 

[70Sport]

I did something like this years ago.

I used wakeboard tower clamps for around the cage bars. Put my surf racks on top and would clamp a yakima basket on it when needed.

 

[matt w]

I did this welded some channel to the inside of the cage so that when I take my top off for 8 months I can add my Yakima Bike racks which allow me to hold most anything I can tie on! heh heh;D AND I run a bikini type top (sun shade material) between the rack on the cage.

http://classicbroncos.com/forums/showthread.php?t=167291

 

[carter2772]

Here are some of my favorite bronco racks....