About 3 weeks ago I ordered a Defender roof rack and roof light cage which I received on Friday but with missing parts. The sales person at the store I ordered the mechanize informed me that they were out of stock on the roof rack brackets and I would have to wait 3 more weeks to get them. I said please cancel the bracket order and give a refund, I'll make my own bracket. No problem, they canceled the order.

So I started my Saturday, Feb. 26, removing the cheesy light bar I had installed over a year ago.



I purchased 3 of these 2x2 fencing material at the home depot.



Then cut it to length.



I then set it on my truck's roof and traced the arch.



Then cut out the material so I could fit it on the truck's roof.



Then tried it to see how it would fit.



With some minor adjustments I was able to make it fit right.



I then used it as the master sample to modify the other two.



Traced it......





and after modifying them all I painted it with the bedliner feces.







Then got them ready to install





And secured both the bracket and roof rack in place.





I finally claimed success at about 6:30 pm.







It was a lil too dark to take a picture of the finish product, so I had to wait for a clear day this morning to take nicer pictures.

This concludes all I'll add/replace on the truck for now, time to go have fun with it next week.








Oh yeah, I also changed the direction of the second row of lights, they will now be used to light up behind the truck when I'm backing up.

 

Good work! Glad you're back in the flow, man.

 

Thanks Stealth.

 

Nice work as always leo

 

Looks awesome man. Wish I had the tools and money to put into mine like you do. Haha

 

Sir, I thought your truck was amazing before these changes. Now I want to make sweet and tender love to it.

 

Thanks but

Funny, had a couple of my friends friend said they'd prefer marring my truck than their GFs.

 

Very sexy truck!

 

looks sweet....what is going on with the roof of the truck though?

 

Man that is very sweet.

 

Thanks for the compliments.

The vinyl is starting to peel off, thought when I get to redo the graphics next year I'll strip it down then.

 

very very nice! cant wait to see how much of pismo you light up!

 

I gotta stop opening your threads. you make me jealous and want to buy a new truck like yours! haha.


hopefully I'll run into you some day here in SoCal

 

sooooo that looks freakin awesome! question though: howd ya mount it to the roof? just self tapping screws or what? pics?

Im thinking about getting this one:
http://www.defenderracks.com/products.asp?id=101

and they can include the mounting hardware...but not really sure what all would be involved in that..

 

Looks good Leo!