Legscrane

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Hi all, been thinking about making a roof/expedition rack for my S2 with full tilt. It seems there's very little available to buy - i guess its a limited market and also difficult to mount with no 'proper' roof. Anyway i made a start last week and i thought I'd post some pictures in case anyone was thinking of doing it themselves.
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First of all I've re-made the rear most hoop as i will connect to this for the structure.
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Then i made a front hoop to connect the rack to the bulkhead windscreen fixing points. I figured there would be some for and aft movement so this will be stopped by connecting to the rear hoop which is in turn connected to the roll bar.
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Then the base of the rack, offered up flat on the floor with front hoop. I'll make another one to sit on top with 3 - 4 inch spacers so the rack will have sides.
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Front hoop cut down and everthing offered up on the vehicle.....

To be continued.
 
I keep thinking about a similar project, but then I start to wonder how difficult it will be to remove and put on the tilt / bikini top.

going to be interesting watching the progress.

Cheers
 
I keep thinking about a similar project, but then I start to wonder how difficult it will be to remove and put on the tilt / bikini top.

going to be interesting watching the progress.

Cheers
Yer, definitely will be more difficult but hopefully with enough space between the rack and top it won't be a mission!

I'll get some more pics up later when I've made the upper section.
 
I've made the mounts for the roof rack to rear hoop, they need cutting down a little still but as you can see from the pics it doesn't interfere with the tilt at all.
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Hello neilly,

Nah, the tilt's about 7 years old. Bought it when we used the Land Rover for our wedding.

Yer, it's the only way i can think of picking up structural points without messing around with the tilt.

Ta
 
Wow,

That looks clean for a 7 year old tilt, I take it that it has shrunk if it is going to then.

Cheers
 
Awesome, that's a neat idea.

Slightly off topic, but your CB mount - what sort of SWR do you get there?

I am using a magmount on a steel plate bolted to the wing (army tuaam mount) but my swr is around 2.5.

Your mount is neat
 
Hi flat, 2.5 sounds high?! I take it you've checked the earth and you have the insulator on the aerial stud and obvious stuff like that? I've literally just checked mine and the swr reading is 1.5 on channel 1 and goes up to 1.7 on channel 40, so i guess i could take 5mm of the whip to balance out but I'm quite happy with that.

Just out of interest was is 2.5 at channel 1 and 40?
 
Hi, just thought I'd put up some more pics of the roof rack build. This is the framework that makes the base; probably have a chequer plate bottom. I've incorporated a small hoop at the front to mount spotlights.
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Hi flat, 2.5 sounds high?! I take it you've checked the earth and you have the insulator on the aerial stud and obvious stuff like that? I've literally just checked mine and the swr reading is 1.5 on channel 1 and goes up to 1.7 on channel 40, so i guess i could take 5mm of the whip to balance out but I'm quite happy with that.

Just out of interest was is 2.5 at channel 1 and 40?

Yeah it was, I am waiting on a new mount to arrive and am going to run an extra earth
 
where did you buy your tilt and sticks from? i have been looking at the exmoor one but the frame work seems very chunky and i think it will look odd with the tilt off. (if we ever get a summer up here!)
 
Hi tomhop,

I bought the sticks about 20 years ago when i first got the land rover. The tilt came from Allwheeltrim.co.uk; really well made and brilliant price and they do loads of different options.

Cheers
 
Hi just a quick update on the roof rack. Got the LED spot lights fitted and will be tacking the rack all together today. Will post more pics tomorrow.
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Thanks Ben and purplemk for the comments.

I finally got some spare time to tack it all together and make the side rails! I've attached some pics again. Not quite sure what I'm going to do for the base; just rails across or a complete floor ie. Chequer plate or something similar, thoughts anyone?

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Looking good :) definitely wouldn't go for chequer plate on the base personally I'd have rails with the space filled with expanded mesh.
 

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