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Originally Posted by SoCalHeadhunter
It's a fair question!
I'm weighing everything this time around.
When I look at what I carry in my Jeep, I find that it's easy to add a couple of hundred extra pounds over lots of items. A few pounds for a shovel, a few pounds for a compressor, etc. If I shave a pound or two or more off of each item I carry, I can save a lot of weight.
In the case of the rack on my 4Runner, the rack I want to put on it weighs 50 lbs. If the stock rack weighs 2 or 3 pounds it's adding an extra 47 or 48 lbs for the new rack, if the stock rack weighs 30 lbs, then I'm only adding an extra 20 lbs.
I might decide not to do an upgrade if it's going to cost me an extra 48 lbs, but might do it if it only costs me 20.
Hope that explains the reason for weighing a stock rack during an upgrade. It's all about opportunity costs. If I don't think about what I'm doing with all the small stuff up front, I could be 300 lbs over GVWR pretty quick.
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Fair enough - makes sense. Yes, the Sherpa Racks are very nice - even better is the fact the owner makes them in the USA with domestic ingredients and labor and is a T4R.ORG member who used to post a lot here before he Big-Timed us
