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Vehicle & Technical => Discovery => Topic started by: winchman on July 31, 2006, 13:16:21

Title: Show me your roof rack!
Post by: winchman on July 31, 2006, 13:16:21

Need a roof rack, cant find or afford a used one so going to make my own.
Show me yours please
I might even make two!

Title: Show me your roof rack!
Post by: Brains on July 31, 2006, 13:31:31

Heres my dads

http://forums.mud-club.com/viewtopic.php?t=26607

Title: Show me your roof rack!
Post by: winchman on July 31, 2006, 13:37:40

Thanks Landy mad but thinking of using square tube as its cheap and easy.

Title: Show me your roof rack!
Post by: hobbit on July 31, 2006, 15:05:38

Got one here, may be a bit too long though, those boards are 6 foot

But if you can get a 90 rack and you can heat up the legs where they join onto the main mounting you onlyhave to bend them out a little bit to make them fit, this one is off a 110 :wink:

Title: Show me your roof rack!
Post by: J B on July 31, 2006, 17:56:12

me thinks that whole disco's beem stretched  :lol:

Title: Show me your roof rack!
Post by: winchman on July 31, 2006, 19:12:09

Hobbit
Thats what I was hoping for as these are much cheaper, any more pics of how much you bent it? and side / front views?
I could cut down one from a 110?

Title: Show me your roof rack!
Post by: the loon on July 31, 2006, 19:29:45

heres another

Title: Show me your roof rack!
Post by: hobbit on July 31, 2006, 23:30:45

Quite easy really, I measured across the gutters at the back, then the legs on the rack, heated up a leg cross point and bent it out between 1 and 1.5", as I remember, the rack is galv so no probs there, a standard 90 should fit easily onto a disco with this tweak.

Also the sun roof still opens and just clears the bars

A 110 could be cut down but remember that motor has a 116" wheelbase not 100, so your overhang on a 110 rack would be nearly to the end of the bonnet

Title: Show me your roof rack!
Post by: winchman on August 01, 2006, 08:20:33

Thanks
So who has one lying in the garden, going cheap?

Title: Show me your roof rack!
Post by: winchman on August 01, 2006, 08:23:07

Hang on a min!
Is a series and defender roof rack the same sizes?
Length dosnt really matter ( as I can cut it down) its the width?

Title: Show me your roof rack!
Post by: Devon-Rover on August 01, 2006, 12:27:32

Yes they are the same. Mine ( on a IIA) and my Dad's ( ninety ) measure the same width wise.

Title: Show me your roof rack!
Post by: winchman on August 01, 2006, 12:44:31

Thanks thats a start all I need now is to find one cheap

Title: Show me your roof rack!
Post by: thermidorthelobster on August 01, 2006, 14:48:42

Here's mine;  looks huge from above, not quite so bad from below.  It's a Patriot.

(http://www.lobsternet.org/discoveryii/discophotos/IMG_2598.JPG)

Title: Show me your roof rack!
Post by: v40mav on August 01, 2006, 22:31:57

Do a search on Ebay under Land Rover racks - looks like a couple of options for you

 :wink: