Yep, Rhino Rack did a nice job with the instructions and parts template. Far superior to the mobile phone photos embedded inside a Microsoft Word file that are typical of so many aftermarket parts theses days. Teraflex is about company that does really excellent user instructions.
You're not worried about those brackets breaking and damaging your hardtop?The next chapter in Jeepeto III has begun, and we’re moving to the dark side (overlanding). I just don’t have enough good wheeling within weekend range from my location (DFW, TX) to justify keeping Jeepeto strictly a wheeler.
The plan going forward is to start exploring within a 5 hour radius of home on the weekends. I will of course still wheel when the opportunity presents itself. I’m just at a point where I’ve pushed my luck enough on big trails and I’m no longer moving up the trail list. I find myself just running the same 5-6 trails in moab every visit, usually with someone new, and it’s starting to feel like I’m a volunteer trail guide. I want to explore more of Moab, some of the lesser trails that I haven’t seen, and regain that magic I felt the first visit there.
Drilled 12 holes in the hard top this morning to install the Rhino Rack Backbone system in preparation for the Go Fast Camper Platform RTT. I plan on directly copying @justinbmcbride and using the GP Factor JLU Feet to mount the tent directly to the Rhino Rack Backbone without any rack. This is the cleanest install I’ve seen for a RTT and I’m hoping it works as well on my rig
Photos from this morning
Screen shots from @justinbmcbride video on YouTube showing the planned mounting solution. Ignore the yellow arrow.
I’m stoked for the GFC tent to arrive, and I’m excited to start the next chapter. Feel free to crucify me in the comments below
i didn’t even open the instruction manual
I hope not, they’re the brackets designed to hold cross bars for the Ali-cab cross bars and I’m adding an extra set (compared to @justinbmcbride, I’ll be using 6 instead of 4) to the tent just because it’s available. Time will tell I suppose, but I’m confident that it’ll work. It’s a small bracket with very little leverage working against it. I’m more worried about the 6 little #10 (guessing here, but they’re small) bolts holding the brackets to the Rhino Rack, but it seems to be working for everyone so I’m gonna roll with it. If I have a failure I’ll be sure to share
Can you share a link to the brackets? I'm thinking of going with the back bone system very soon! I'm just trying to figure out if I wanna go with the platform or cross bars...or those brackets even.
manufacturers website
I'm gonna look for his video too. I'm interested in that! Thanks!
I remember thinking the same thing about those bolts. IIRC they are either M5 or M6 on the Rhino Rack pads but M8 on the Yakima landing pads on our other vehicle. I felt the bolts that came from Rhino Rack we’re also a little short and we’re not grabbing enough threads so I replaced them with slightly longer ones.
TBH, I don’t mind having a mechanical fuse at that contact point, and I’ve got 6 of them up there, hopefully they are never an issue, but I’d rather have a bolt fail than pass the stresses on somewhere else. Hopefully it’s never an issue, but at least I know what to keep an eye on. I really don’t anticipate any issues. It’s a light tent, and comes in at half of the rhino rack weight limit.
For all the doom and gloom you hear from people about RTTs and racks failing, you’d think it happens all the time.
This is the kind of positivity I’m here for
