Let's see pics of your homemade roof racks.

[76k5blazerr]

I'm thinking about building a roof rack for the blazer, for extra storage/spare tire and to mount a light bar. I found a pic on Google of what I'd like to make, pretty sure it's a member on here. Post pics of y'alls roof rack builds.

 

[ryoken]

most in here are on burbs..

 

[76k5blazerr]

There's gotta be a few on blazers... Blazers are the ones that really need the extra space. Burbs have about as much room as a single wide trailer!

 

[Burbdood 74]

Yeah, but a spare 33"-35" tire sucks up a lot of that living room...

 

[76k5blazerr]

That's why I want a roof rack ...

 

[TREA18]

colbystephens on here. I know he built a nice one for his Blazer.

 

[Blue85]

Here's one I built quick out of EMT:

Never thought it was permanent, but it's been working fine over 3 years. I do like conduit, though. It's cheap and light, only rusts at the welds and the tools to bend it are cheap and/or rentable.

Look, it even holds my gear at angles:

 

[martinlbc]

im thinking of having my welder at work build me one too, i've just been googling pics for ref.

 

[Burbdood 74]

I had a Conn Ferr roof rack on my 1990 Blazer. I snagged it from my uncle when he took it off of his Bronco back in 2000 or 2001. I really wish I had kept both but at least kept the rack so I could throw it on my Burb.

 

[Blue85]

One of the biggest questions is how you will attach it to the truck...

 

[snowdriver]

I am not a big fan of roof top carriers,but for occasional use I could see why you would want one,just not a lot of room in a blazer,be nice to come up with a method of easily mounting or unmounting the rack,just so it is not always up there,unless of course you like the look of it

 

[Blue85]

A rack easily makes/breaks access to a garage, so unless you only park outside or in a high clearance door, a way to get it on and off quickly and repeatably is important.

 

[76k5blazerr]

Well, once I put my truck on 35s it won't be able to go in the garage anyway so a roof rack ain't gonna hurt lol.

 

[martinlbc]

my k5 has never been able to pull in my garage, too high, so a rack wont hurt mine either lol, once we figure out how to mount and build it i will post some pics

 

[Deuling]

@colbystephens has my favorite roof rack ive seen on one of these.

Or just build a cage and remove your top

 

[EXJAY]

I just took a factory rack off of a mid/late 90's Tahoe and cut the bars down a little to fit the K5's hardtop then through bolted it. Looks factory and handles kayaks with no probs.

 

[diesel4me]

Most factory installed racks used "well nuts" to hold them to the roof-they are rubber with a threaded brass insert--some use "Nut-Serts" that are similar,only they are made of steel,and are inserted much the same way as the rubber well nuts are,using a bolt and washer to expand the steel sleeve below the roof metal...

 

[Stomis]

One of my first ventures into fabricating from scratch...