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Originally Posted by blackened_offroad
what are people doing for secure/weatherproof storage on something like a Gobi rack? I really prefer sleeping in my vehicle when out on BLM land or whatever. I don't want to make one of those raised platforms in the back because I want to keep what little headroom I have back there. I don't want a RTT because I have a giant dog that goes with me everywhere and I don't want to lift her in and out of the tent every time she needs to pee or whatever.
Something like a pelican case locked or bolted to the gobi rack? or ???
suggestions appreciated. thanks. I see a lot of pics of people with these high end aftermarket racks but not many photos of anything ON the racks except RTT's. I did a lot of offroading this spring with a Yakima skybox and it didn't work out so well. Flexed a lot, cracked in stress areas when offroading, moved on my rack no matter how much I tightened the clamps, etc.
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I don't bolt things to the rack because I want to be able to take them down.
Currently I have 2 Yeti boxes that are waterproof and not too big that work well. I just use tie downs back to front and side to side.
I see people using aluminum boxes too. One friend buys used military medic boxes off eBay and he swears they are waterproof. Or you can drop some coin on something like Zarges boxes, which will last forever. They actually have a bunch of models that are bear proof ...