FS 5th Gen. Full Length Roof Racks by drabbits

Just picked up and re-installed my roof rack with [MENTION=68079]drabbits[/MENTION] yesterday. He had it powder-coated for me (originally just rattle canned) and I have to say we should have done this the first time around. Looks so much better! Will have no questions in the future about durability with this new gloss black powder-coating. Here are a few pics:

The little man and Mrs. (me standing on roof rack)
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/93778443@N04/13472255375" title="Roof Rack Pt. 2 by TPatt88, on Flickr"><img src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7062/13472255375_11f336ac3c.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="Roof Rack Pt. 2"></a>
STICKERS!!!
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/93778443@N04/13472614024" title="Roof Rack Pt. 2 by TPatt88, on Flickr"><img src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7025/13472614024_3248a90bcb.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="Roof Rack Pt. 2"></a>

Right on man, great pics!

LOL, so does he go for broke like you or is he like his uncle, toss back a few and chill?
 
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I want to take a moment to honor a good friend of mine, Tim Demoss. He was a motorcyclist with a passion for fixing and building cafe, vintage, and streetfighter style motorcycles,
who's life was tragically cut short earlier this past week. He was a phenomenal bike mechanic/builder and an incredible metal fabricator.
His talents were overshadowed by his kind heartedness. In spite of being an owner of a busy motorcycles shop,
Tim made time to help me build and weld roof racks when I was swamped with orders.
He was an extraordinary soul, and I am fortunate to have called him my friend. See you on the other side...

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I want to take a moment to honor a good friend of mine, Tim Demoss. He was a motorcyclist with a passion for fixing and building cafe, vintage, and streetfighter style motorcycles,
who's life was tragically cut short earlier this past week. He was a phenomenal bike mechanic/builder and an incredible metal fabricator.
His talents were overshadowed by his kind heartedness. In spite of being an owner of a busy motorcycles shop,
Tim made time to help me build and weld roof racks when I was swamped with orders.
He was an extraordinary soul, and I am fortunate to have called him my friend. See you on the other side...

Hey Alex - I'm sorry to hear that bud. God rest his soul, sounds like he was a great guy. It's never easy to lose someone ...
 
[MENTION=68079]drabbits[/MENTION]

Shout out to Alex who helped me get this light bar finally on...came out great!

After primer and paint...

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@ Camelback HQ

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:jaw: Looks awesome!! Glad you finally found a solution to get the 40" bar up there.

Alex did a great job - the tabs are all from scratch - we didn't even take off the rack to weld on...these are as fitted as you can get - lol.
 
Hey drabbits, you ever thought of doing a rear ladder?

After seeing [MENTION=90255]TPatt88[/MENTION] set up I went with the gobi ladder as well, of course I hate all of you that have racks, etc. on already. I'm patiently waiting while I plan lighting, [MENTION=50210]KVA[/MENTION] it took long enough to get some pictures up. I'm now leaning towards a Rigid SR for the rack, maybe 30". Of course at this point none of this will be in place for my week long camping, hiking, off-loading through Moab and southwest Colorado in a few weeks. But hey I can't complain as I'm getting a week of awesomeness!
 
After seeing [MENTION=90255]TPatt88[/MENTION] set up I went with the gobi ladder as well, of course I hate all of you that have racks, etc. on already. I'm patiently waiting while I plan lighting, [MENTION=50210]KVA[/MENTION] it took long enough to get some pictures up. I'm now leaning towards a Rigid SR for the rack, maybe 30". Of course at this point none of this will be in place for my week long camping, hiking, off-loading through Moab and southwest Colorado in a few weeks. But hey I can't complain as I'm getting a week of awesomeness!

You won't be disappointed! It's a high quality piece of kit and is very useful. I have yet to load my rack up but can tell you that climbing onto the rack is 100 times easier with the Gobi ladder. And it is a helluva lot nicer than jumping off the top of the truck to get down!
 
[MENTION=50210]KVA[/MENTION], looks amazing, that is exactly what I want to do.

How is the wind noise with the light bar in front of the wind screen?

Cheers
 
[MENTION=50210]KVA[/MENTION], looks amazing, that is exactly what I want to do.

How is the wind noise with the light bar in front of the wind screen?

Cheers

No noise. Have driven freeway and streets...nothing. Alex hooked me up with a thicker fairing and it is 100x better in my opinion.
 
Looks like I know where I'm getting my rack from....
[MENTION=50210]KVA[/MENTION], did you say you made the mounts for the light bar and welded them on yourself? Or could I order a similar setup with mounts from Alex?

Cheers
 

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