Homemade Roof Rack Cross Bars

The bars are cut from 3 4 electrical conduit.

Homemade roof rack cross bars.

Measuring and trial fitting. Drill where you marked. Lay the crossbars on your side rails and grab one of your u bolts. You ll notice in the early pictures that four holes are drilled.

A 10 piece cost me about 2 00. Diy roof rack cross bars step 1. This can be very dangerous hence should be controlled. Remember to measure both front and back.

25 diy roof cross bars step 1. Repeat for the other side and the second bar. My bars were wider at the rear of the car. Cut the bars to length.

After deciding on a general design in my head i headed to the hardware store s plumbing. Avoid drilling too deep into the roof of the car. I used an old piece of aluminum beam from a tractor trailer to make cross rails for the roof rack on my 2003 honda odyssey. Using a flat head screw driver assemble the roof rails to the top of the car by sxrewing the side rails and the cross bars together.

To bolt it together i installed each bolt loosely and then tightened them up from.