I jumped on the Tred group buy last month and picked up a pair. I wanted to be able to carry them when I go offroad and take them off completely when I don't need them and still have a perfectly flat, unobstructed rack. I know Tred makes mounts for these but I wanted to see if I could come up with something first. Below is what I came up with to mount them. Note, at some point (hopefully) I will be adding either a Gobi or Baja rack (EDIT: I was checking out the Eezi-Awn K9 racks on the internet tonight. Definitely the way I want to go now) to this thing and come up with a litte different way to carry the Treds.



The point of no return.



Once the holes were drilled, I filled the open areas around the holes inside the crossbar with black silicon. I let it cure for a few days but surprisingly, even with the near triple digit heat, the silicon inside was not fully cured.