Mounting a Hi-lift

[Paraphoe]

OK, so I got a 60'' Hi-Lift for Christmas. As I posted in another thread - I gotta be honest, this thing scares the crap out of me. It's MUCH heavier than I thought and SO damn big. I'm thinking I shoulda went with the 48'', but what's done is done. Anyone have any photos or suggestions on how one would go about mounting this to their roof rack (I have a Lund rack)? The best I could find in searching were pictures from like 5 years ago. I was hoping someone had detailed pics or had fabbed something up I could follow. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance all.

 

[brianjwilson]

Lund rack? Post a picture...
Depending on what the rack is like, the easy way would be to drill a hole in the cross bar and put a long bolt through, from the bottom up. Put a washer and a nut on top, place the hi-lift on that, and washer and wing-nuts on top of the hi-lift.
Of course drilling the crossbar would make it weak, it's just easier to picture that way. You could use a clamp around the crossbar and do the same thing. Go walk around the hardware store and see what you can find to make it work, that's what I always do.

 

[Tbars4]

...if you shipped it to me i could figure a way to mount it and i would send you plenty of pics, i promise...

...or, you could weld 2 holder pins onto the basket and put hose over them to keep the vibration down...and put a hole in the holding pin for a big cotter pin...

 

[SkanlaxJMO]

subsribin

 

[Paraphoe]

I'll try to get a picture up soon, but I'm leaving on a snowboarding trip tomorrow morning, so I most likely won't have one till Sunday.

 

[Paraphoe]

Here we go...

 

[SkanlaxJMO]

would the side of the rack be strong enough to support the hi-lift if you had it clamped to the outside of the rack?

 

[Paraphoe]

would the side of the rack be strong enough to support the hi-lift if you had it clamped to the outside of the rack?

I'm not sure... :\

 

[SkanlaxJMO]

i was looking at your rack...it looks awesome but it doesn't look like there is room on the inside of the rack to mount it. I was thinking maybe make a slopped mount for the outside of the rack so it would use both of the bars to support it...(if that makes any sense to you)

 

[hunterdan]

You can look at some of these ideas...
http://www.discoweb.org/alyssa/jackmount.htm
http://www.yankeetoys.org/lee/roofrack.htm
http://gallery.eeaston.com/v/hummer/hiliftmount/
http://www.northwestoverlandsociety.org/Default.aspx?tabid=264&EntryID=18
http://www.4wheelers.com/hi-lift-jack-mount-c-62-p-1007.html
http://www.fjcruiserforums.com/forums/4x4-off-road-tech/21166-hi-lift-tri-mount-surprise.html


Theres a couple I found in a quick search. Shouldn't be too hard to fab something up that would work.

Dan