How To Transfer Roof Rack

Maybe you do not want to install a roof rack to your car or perhaps there isn t a roof rack available that fits on your vehicle.

How to transfer roof rack.

If you have factory roof racks that run from front to back you can build your own steel crossmembers using one inch square tubing cut to size and secured to the factory racks using carriage bolts. Between a swb low. So it is a big problem for me when it comes to transport my kayak. For instance if you have a roof mounted cargo box rated at 150 lbs roof rack crossbars rated at 200 lbs and a roof rated at 100 lbs then you cannot load more than 100 lbs.

Using a flat head screw driver assemble the roof rails to the top of the car by sxrewing the side rails and the cross bars together. I will show you some solutions with the step by step process. Maybe you have just bought your kayaks and haven t yet thought about how you are going to transport them around. In this post i m going to talk about how to transport your kayak without a roof rack system.

It should be close to one of the crossbars. Avoid drilling too deep into the roof of the car. This can be very dangerous hence should be controlled. Toss the other end of the strap over your sup.

Take a cam strap and position the buckle so it is resting on top of the board but near the edge. The sections of a modular rack have crossbars which are welded in position to fit a specific model of van this makes them easy to fit but makes it impossible to transfer between vans in most cases. The exception would be if you are switching between different wheelbase or rear door types of the same generation of van i e. Ensure that the roof rack is in position and properly adjusted leaving good space at the centre.

Position your sup so it is running parallel with the car and with the widest point of the board between the crossbars of your rack. Transporting a kayak without a roof rack isn t the easiest of tasks never mind two.