Jamboree Rack Design

[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

[stagger_lee]

Originally Posted by 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

x2 I agree. and swing out spare is kind of nice too.

[evldave]

I never did like swing out spares. Especially w/the swing gate of the H3, you gotta upen two things to get to the back - i'm always in the back of my truck and it's a pain opening both.

I think putting the spare up top and having a rack attached to the spare mounting bolts would be the trick. If you flipped this design upside down and had the rack line up w/the bottom of the rear door and attach to the spare bolts, that would be less stress on the door and it would look pretty cool too.

[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.

[SR1355]

Stopped by fab shop today for test fit, everything tack weld and had to do some minor mods. They should have fully welded up today, looks like I won't get it powder coated before the MOAB trip but at least I'll have it to do a shake down run with for any final design changes.

[evldave]

Originally Posted by SR1355

Stopped by fab shop today for test fit, everything tack weld and had to do some minor mods. They should have fully welded up today, looks like I won't get it powder coated before the MOAB trip but at least I'll have it to do a shake down run with for any final design changes.

Pics?? I took off the rear spare carrier yesterday, but didn't have time to weigh it. Gonna weigh it and the spare today to get an idea on how much the rear door was originally test with. Then, if you remove the spare and carrier, it will tell you (roughly) what you can carry without too much worry. I tell ya, though, that carrier is a lot heavier than I thought!

pics pics pics pics pics!!!!