Thread: Getting Cars ready

Originally Posted by strangy

Looks great.
A word of caution though with the rack legs. I think they are too close to the roof and will be leaving a substantial imprint after a few ks off road.

Yes, absolutely correct. There is a real knack in installing Rhino legs - you have to strain them out towards you (away from roof) as you tighten the bolts - you need 3 hands!! Have attached some pics of my roof before I modded the racks and after. With the weight you will have up there I think you need 4 cross bars too - get someone to watch the gutters and climb up there - they will flex. Also, I started with my rack as close to the roof as yours and ended up buying cross bars to get extra strength and extra clearance above the roof - helps if you have to clean the roof sometime!! (even Deefers need a clean sometimes). After adding the cross bars, using 4 legs instead of 2 and re-doing the install I never had any issue with rubbing and that was on some serious tracks with a load. Sorry, cant find the pics of the damaged roof - but it wore right through the paint and part way through the metal before I noticed it, and it only took a few thousand Km. Just remembered - i actually ended up modifying the legs with a grinder - took off about 3mm following the edge of the leg plus all of the above

Thanks for the feedback. The legs are touching the roof at certain points... will have to readjust. ...