Jamboree Rack Design

[evldave]

I noticed in your pic you already have a roof rack. Why not just put the spare up there and mount the rack to where the spare mount goes? You could load it up real good and not risk hurting the rear door. Get rid of the whole cone-shaped thing and clean up the back and it would look real nice!

[SR1355]

While I agree it may be too much... I would think that the engineers at GM would know that a company coming up with something like this is going to happen and they would provide extra capacity in the design... maybe not. I guess the only way to find out is to do it and see what happens... could be an expensive experiment.

The saga begins...

[HummBebe]

I think its going to look great!!!

I wouldn't over load it though. A couple of Jerry-Cans would look slick on it. But I've always been cautious about adding weight to any door.

I am impressed with the design.

[Demo]

I think evldave has a good idea. You could make a two tier rack for the back door and put the spare on the roof. The Iceland conversions I have seen remove the spare (hard to carry a 38+ spare) and make a cargo box for the back door. Either way you clearly have skills, and I can't wait to see what you come up, when I see it at Moab!

[SR1355]

Originally Posted by DemoDaddy79

I think evldave has a good idea. You could make a two tier rack for the back door and put the spare on the roof. The Iceland conversions I have seen remove the spare (hard to carry a 38+ spare) and make a cargo box for the back door. Either way you clearly have skills, and I can't wait to see what you come up, when I see it at Moab!

Maybe 4 J-cans below and trail rack above, it would be an easy mod to the rack currently designed.

[SR1355]

Originally Posted by HummBebe

I think its going to look great!!!

I wouldn't over load it though. A couple of Jerry-Cans would look slick on it. But I've always been cautious about adding weight to any door.

I am impressed with the design.

Thanks, hoping to have it or some other design complete for the Moab trip.

[Hunner]

Originally Posted by SR1355

While I agree it may be too much... I would think that the engineers at GM would know that a company coming up with something like this is going to happen and they would provide extra capacity in the design... maybe not. I guess the only way to find out is to do it and see what happens... could be an expensive experiment.

The saga begins...

Interesting observation since the design on Cris's thread starts with a rack pictured and offered by Amstar which is AM General which is how all this Hummer stuff got started. I wonder if they considered that it would really work or not?

[Demo]

prolly thought about it just as much as they thought about putting an I-5 with malfunctioning heads in the H3 .

Or better yet, selling products through the stealerships only.

[Hunner]

Or the skid plates that are not wide enough to cover the shock mount hanging out there in space.
There site is now underconstruction.
The new owners of the local dealership actually showed me a book today from them but all I saw was high dollar H2 stuff. All the mods for H3's that were on the site are not in their book. They have been advertising for over a year and have not made most of that available in my area.

[excel25]

Why not use the same top and attach it in your trailer hitch receiver and let it rest on your spare tire, That would take stress of door and still be out of the way.

[garnerbiker]

We need to rip off the factory rear bumper and put an XJ style durango bumper. Then, you can have the everything you want atached to the rear bumper and still up high for wheeling. But NO, no one has made something like that yet unless it's all fabed up. It would be great to have the 2 cans, high lift, and spare on there off center and up a bit higher. Also, you can yank on that bumper as hard as you want.

http://www.durango4x4.com/rearbumpers.html

http://www.durango4x4.com/images/gallery/Elliot02.jpg

We need to make something similar to what they have and keep it low profile and close to the truck and not weigh 500#'s

[Jeff G]

Originally Posted by excel25

Why not use the same top and attach it in your trailer hitch receiver and let it rest on your spare tire, That would take stress of door and still be out of the way.

I was kind of thinking the same thing. It would definately take the stress off of the rear door.