Anyone have a non heavy duty rack on?

[Outdoorsben]

I am not looking to drive with tons of gear on the hard top, just a canoe from time to time but more importantly is bins at night as I sleep inside the Jeep. Anyone running a non HD rack? Non hd as in not rhino, Gobi, kargomaster, garvin etc... looking for more of a smittybilt defender or surco. Also bonus question, anyone running an awning off theirs?

 

[PhulesAU]

Just rember the a Canoe will still have a pretty good wind load, even going straight down the road.

 

[Outdoorsben]

Just rember the a Canoe will still have a pretty good wind load, even going straight down the road.

Great point that I didn’t think of.

 

[billiebob]

Yakima, Landing Pads, Towers & Bars.
On/Off in seconds. Plenty of capacity.



I haul my ladders this way for 10 years.

 

[jscherb]

I've got XJ Cherokee racks on both my JKU and my LJ. For both Jeeps I made brackets to support the rack on the roll bars so no weight is borne by the fiberglass.

The nice thing about the Cherokee racks is that there's lots of aftermarket support for them. For example, using Surco J100 Rack Adapters (http://surcoinc.com/Roof/Mounting_Accessories/Specialty_Adapters.html) I can adapt my RTT cross rails to the XJ tracks.

I use the same adapters to secure a Garvin rack basket to the XJ tracks.

It's a very versatile setup, and inexpensive since XJ racks are about $15 in my local u-pull junkyard.

 

[Saev]

Homemade roof rack out of Conduit tubing, attaches to the rain gutters and the rear window hinges, Works great for chairs tables, luggage, all your light weight equipment, no rattles, no wind noise, been running that for 5 years, I spend about 50 bucks and a weekend

 

[Tswhit15]

I've had the smittybilt racks for about 3 years now. I have since replaced some of the bolts and nuts and washers but that could easily be avoided by using loctite right from the start. It's held up great for me. I run 4 lights up front and two in the rear. It will easily hold two kayaks, a canoe, and I ran a rooftop tent for two weeks in Colorado off road and for a week in Kentucky off road and it held up fine. It reduces fuel efficiency I'm sure slightly, and everything in my jeep creaks so I can't tell you how much noisier it may be.

 

[oldmanpants]

home built out of some old farm fence gates

 

[WhatThaFrig]

I've had the Surco rack on my 15 JK and I have a Smittybuilt on my 13 JKU. Both worked for what I used them for. Nothing too heavy.

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[wildjeeper]

I am not looking to drive with tons of gear on the hard top, just a canoe from time to time but more importantly is bins at night as I sleep inside the Jeep. Anyone running a non HD rack? Non hd as in not rhino, Gobi, kargomaster, garvin etc... looking for more of a smittybilt defender or surco. Also bonus question, anyone running an awning off theirs?

So I do use the Rhino backbone system, but then with the cross bars instead of the whole pioneer rack. I run my CVT Shasta on the crossbars. Love it, backbone system offers plenty of support for the weights and the crossbars I keep on the tent when I remove it. So no roof rack all the time. I also run my CVT awning off the rear using the crossbars as well.

 

[Outdoorsben]

Thanks for all the pictures and updates guys. I ended up going with the Smitty and already installed it. Solid so far, not going to mount an RTT obviously, but so far with my canoe and other odd and end stuff it's worked great.