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  1. 8th September 2012, 11:45 AM #1
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    Roof Racks over Canvas Tops

    My 101 has a canvas roof but I have a large roof rack that was bolted to the roof when it was tin. I would love to be able to use the roof rack with the canvas top. I could build an external pipe frame but would rather bolt it through the canvas to the underlying roll bars - the issue is retaining waterproofing, particularly when the rack is removed.

    Does anyone know of a system that allows items to be bolted through canvas and still be waterproof?

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    I did that with a vehicle with a vinyl roof. I used rubber hose cut to length as a crushable spacer around a bolt. Worked a treat.
    The rack I was using was a small aluminium sheet bolted through the hood bows and vinyl roof. It carried a siren and flashing light. Not much load.
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    Hi Garry,
    When I was in the army the
    Perenties were fitted with roof racks that bolted to the roll bars / canopy bows. From memory they had a rubberised grommet sewn into the canvas that the bolt was a tight fit into and a rubber washer.
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    Some shock absorber rubber bushes have a small collar extension on one side which acts like a grommet thereby shrouding the pin through the hole in the retention bracket...

    If you were to source some of these you could get brass eyelets of the correct diameter from a camping shop or chandlery (plus die and anvil) and hammer the eyelets into the canvas and mount the roof rack through the shock bushes /eyelets on to the hoop bars.... should be water tight... I hope
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