Need pics of Maggiolina mounting method

[cstamm81]

I bit the bullet and got a Maggiolina Airland med. It's going on top of my 80 series. I have the quick n easy style gutter mounts, 8 total. I want to use square cross bars to support the tent. Does anyone have any pics of how they mounted theirs? Especially how the actual tent mounts to the bars? Mike S. tried to find me extra mounting brackets, but couldn't. He said I should be able to rig something up in the interim. So, any pics of mounting setups, let em fly, thanks.

 

[sirenmoses]

Sold my Maggi & sent the xtra brackets w/, sorry. IIRC there's a flat metal piece that seats 2 carriage bolts and then slides into the metal 'tray' running lengthwise. another flat piece captures the bolts and is secured w/nuts on the bottom.

here's the instruction sheet I downloaded, w/ diagrams that prolly explain it better. http://www.loftyshelters.com/IndexFrame.htm

HTH

 

[Mike S]

Chris

Sorry that I couldn't come up with the extra mounting set for you... low inventory until we get our next container in February. I think when you see how the tent mounts, It will be evident that you can use a couple of carriage bolts and slide them into the channel, with a plate (with two corresponding holes drilled in it) to secure it under under the bar with lock washers and nuts. Or you could just cross drill the bar and drop a bolt through it. The mounting hardware supplied will easily hold the tent to the fron and rear bar, and the other bars will support the weight on the gutter mount towers. Extra bars will help spread the weight evenly across the gutters and keep any rough road pounding from cracking the gutter caulking.

Mike S

 

[cstamm81]

no problem at all Mike. Your customer service was great, working up a quote after hours and shipping the very next morning. I think I should be able to come up with a way to mount the two center bars.

 

[dmede808]

I don’t have any close ups, sorry. My Maggiolina is mounted with 6 quick and easy gutter clamps using 3 1.25” x 1.25” aluminum cross bars. The bars are bolted to the clamps with the head of the bolt inside the square tube so that the mag can sit flat on the bars and not on the bolt heads. The mag has 4 clamping brackets (basically 2 carriage bolts and a small rectangular piece of plate steel for each bracket). You can use any carriage bolt that will slide down the slots in the bottom of the tent and make up your own plates to hold them tight to the cross bars. But you really only need the 4 that come with the tent. My third cross bar in the middle is unattached and acts only as extra support for when I have a load mounted over the tent (I use special rack bars to load a canoe over the tent).

 

[BlueHZT60]

I bit the bullet and got a Maggiolina Airland med. It's going on top of my 80 series. I have the quick n easy style gutter mounts, 8 total. I want to use square cross bars to support the tent. Does anyone have any pics of how they mounted theirs? Especially how the actual tent mounts to the bars? Mike S. tried to find me extra mounting brackets, but couldn't. He said I should be able to rig something up in the interim. So, any pics of mounting setups, let em fly, thanks.

Easy: Simple stocks from hardware store: You will find that you need some carraige bolts of the proper length (4 bars = 16); then you need backing plates that will slide (w/carraige bolt) into the Magg. c-channel & another 8 backing plates to go on the bottom side of your rack.

Or you could be a slacker like me and just buy the largest carraige bolts that will fit in the C-channel and backing plates for the underside of the roof rack cross members.

I have used: Thule 2-bar; Custom heavy steel rack/guard; Thule 4 bar w/ARB gutter mounts; and now 3.5" Alum C-Channel, carraige bolts and ARB gutter mounts.

Do yourself and your roof a favor - buy (or make) a Harkin style lift that Mike sells, it makes on/off easy with one person. Bob

 

[rockclmbr]

What is this Harkin style lift that you speak of?

 

[yzftaco]

What is this Harkin style lift that you speak of?

Shouldn't you be working?

 

[cstamm81]

thanks for the ideas guys. It seems like it won't be too hard at all. dmede808, I'd love to see pics of your RTT and Canoe loaded up! It would give me some ideas on how to carry my kayaks.

 

[dmede808]

dmede808, I'd love to see pics of your RTT and Canoe loaded up! It would give me some ideas on how to carry my kayaks.

I didn't take any and won't have the boat up again until next spring. But maybe next week I can grab a few shots of the bars on the rack. Basically its a couple of upside down shaped U bars that go over the RTT. They connect to the front and back cross bars with tabs that have holes drilled through them and matching holes are drilled in the square crossbars. The extension bars sit on top of the crossbars which stick out about 3" on either side of the RTT. I bolt them through the crossbars and then just slide my canoe on top like any other roof rack.

It puts the canoe up a bit higher than I would like but it's pretty stable even on the freeway. Though I'm sure it kills my already horrible MPGs.

 

[BlueHZT60]

What is this Harkin style lift that you speak of?

See Link to Autohome:

Autohome Accessories

It is the same system, with boat parts that you can also get from West Marine. The prices are only a couple dollars different, based on the research I did a couple years ago. Bob

 

[sfcruiser]

Columbus tent hardware

Is this what you're looking for?

I was in a hurry to try out my purchase of a used Columbus tent. I attached "Uni Strut" to my conn-ferr rack mounts. Then the RTT to the uni strut. its held in place with 4 u bolts with brackets.

 

[DiHrdBowTi]

This is my old tent but it mounts the same.

 

[DiHrdBowTi]

Here is another