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I'm still very anti light bar on the roof though! It produces way, way too much glare. My setup with the bar Tim gave me and my 2 Hellas produce a crap ton of light and 0 glare. Led light bars are awful as spot light too. I would much rather have 4 spot halogens or HID's on the roof but the height of my garage door won't allow it.

I kind of agree. I'm not anti-light bar on the roof, but there is a lot of glare off the hood. I don't have a steel front bumper yet, so mounting a bar on the roof was a stop-gap until I eventually replace the bumper and can mount some running lights to it. I've found it useful when driving slowly on rough terrain at night as it shines downward in front, but despite it's brightness it doesn't throw light nearly far enough to work as a driving light at speed. The one upside is that it's low profile - while I don't have a garage, I do use city garages sometimes and it's already a tight squeeze in many of them without anything sticking higher up than the rack
 
If I was going to do it again I don't think I'd get the sunroof cutout and I'd probably just go full mesh grid. For now I've taken a piece of round steel and mounted it across the sunroof opening with some U bolts so that I can mount my maxtrax up there. My tent is on the smaller side (tepui ayer) and I've been able to fit tent, 4 gallon rotopax and maxtrax up top and then a shovel tucked up next to the tent using quick fist clamps. It's all pretty tight up there but it worked out well including a 2 week trip to Baja.

nice username @linuxgod, I've been a linux admin for almost 20 years.
 
Finally got around to putting my Baja shovel/axe mounts and the big ARB awning up on the rack.

Really happy with how everything fits together. Still saving up for that RTT.

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Pics of the awning
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Looks good! What direction do you plan on opening your RTT, assuming it's a traditional one and not a hardshell.

With your current setup, you'll want it to open opposite of you awning so you can use both simultaneously. Issue is, with the shovel and axe mounted the way you have them, it won't be able to open that way. Just some food for though if you haven't already thought of a solution.
 
Looks good! What direction do you plan on opening your RTT, assuming it's a traditional one and not a hardshell.

With your current setup, you'll want it to open opposite of you awning so you can use both simultaneously. Issue is, with the shovel and axe mounted the way you have them, it won't be able to open that way. Just some food for though if you haven't already thought of a solution.
Great points. Tim made me a cross bar to mount across the rack. Will update this thread once I mount those to see if I have clearance. It's assumed the shovel and axe come down at camp.
 
Do you have a link or more info on the shovel and ax mount? I like it.
 
Great points. Tim made me a cross bar to mount across the rack. Will update this thread once I mount those to see if I have clearance. It's assumed the shovel and axe come down at camp.

Depending on what type and how long of a rtt you end up getting you can as you already mentioned, add a cross bar that mounts to the 2 (1 on each side of rack) forward plates then bolt the axe/shovel bracket to that cross bar. That way a soft rtt would open to the opposite side of the awning without the hassle of having to bring things down while not needing them!
 
Update: Tim saw my post and let me know I had installed the awning brackets w/o spacers.
Corrected photo here. Also his bracket is built for foxing or ARB so the ARB mount leaves an extra hole at the top. Haven't decided if I will trim it off. Probably just leave it be
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So I've been looking at mounts. I saw the post for the Baja style mounts. When I looked which mounts work for these racks. The 3" width mounts from Baja? I know the flat rack mounts won't work but they have 3" and 5" width mounts.
 
So I've been looking at getting the alu cab shadow awning but have found that the mounts are specific to front runner racks so something would have to be fabricated for it to work. I've tried to email gamiviti to see if we can work on something before I order but I haven't even received one email back just for the order. How's everyone getting in touch with him.
 
So I've been looking at getting the alu cab shadow awning but have found that the mounts are specific to front runner racks so something would have to be fabricated for it to work. I've tried to email gamiviti to see if we can work on something before I order but I haven't even received one email back just for the order. How's everyone getting in touch with him.
I have emailed with Tim several times over the last several weeks. I typically get a response back within 24 hours. I ordered my rack last week. He was great to work with. sales at gamiviti dot com
 
Tim is traveling this week, hence delayed comms.

About to place my order w this config:

Expo ++
Sunroof cutout
Drop down light bar mount+ light bar
Full mesh
8 gussets

Thoughts? I'm debating 1/2 vs full mesh... leaning towards full.
 
My list is about the same except I'm doing half mesh. I'm still trying to figure mounting options for other stuff also.

Would u mind sharing why u went half mesh?
 
Mostly in hopes I can still clean the roof every once in awhile. I wanted the mesh on at least half so that I have more attachment points and easier to walk on when on the rack but I figured it'd be really hard to clean up there if it was a full mesh. I also have large containers I take camping a lot so for at least half I wouldn't really need the mesh to help hold the larger containers.
 
Anybody go full mesh and regret it?
 
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