Armor Tech Offroad low profile rola mounts

[b407driver]

I agree. I see absolutely no reason why you couldn't flip the bracket, rest the basket rails on top of the bracket, and have the U bolts facing downward with the nuts underneath the bracket.

The only problem I could foresee would be the bolts attaching to the factory side rails and the nuts on the U bolts may contact one another. The other thing to consider is that flipping those brackets would probably make the rack sit at an almost identical height to just resting it on top of the factory cross bars.

Sure would like to know if anyone's tried this.

I guess another option would be to flip the bracket, but mount the tube below, so that it is 'hanging' on the u-bolts (nuts of which would thus be facing up). Seems to me this would lower it to right in between what would be 'stock' (i.e. resting on the roof), and fully flipped (with the bar sitting on top of the bracket, which is probably only 1 to 1.5" below what a crossbar mounting setup would be). I could see this working as long as one didn't carry tons of weight routinely (that's me), but not sure anyone wants to try it (other than me). lol