Land Rover 109, raising the roof-rack

 20 Jan 2022

    I did this a couple of weeks ago and have been trying to decide if it merits posting. So WHAT THE HECK!

When I first made my roof rack out of super strut; https://poppageno.blogspot.com/2014/04/land-rover-109-roof-rack.html

And then made some changes; https://poppageno.blogspot.com/2014/10/off-road-lites-and-simple-roof-rack.html

Then finally with this; https://poppageno.blogspot.com/2017/08/roof-rack-gets-updated.html

All that was good until I swapped tops. I traded my regular top for a tropical top complete with sunshade. With my rack I had built it tall enough to clear the trop top, yet I had a couple of issues that popped up.

One issue was the crossbars were too close to the sunshade and detritus from the redwood trees got caught in the gap and built up. Second was when I was on the roof I could step on the rack and it would bend down to the sunshade.

So I figured out how to raise the rack, by removing the mounts one at a time I could unbolt the top from the upright.

With a little help from the angle grinder I tapered the edges and butt-welded them together.

This gave me around a 1-5/8" lift, should be plenty of room for those pesky little branches to slide under.

In the rear because of  the door lift I had to find some spare steel and make the lift pieces to weld on.

It only took me 9 hours to do all 10, once I had the method and sequence down it went faster,