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El Ricko · ******** Joined: 12 May 2008 Posts: 5453 Location: UK

Managed to fit factory roof rails to my SWB today. Took 4 hours from start to test drive.

this is roughly how to do it.....

Start by stripping the fitting from the upper interior ( interior lights, grab handles, interior mirror , sun visors)

Carefully remove the upper plastic trim. The front (side of windscreen and over the doors pull off easily, there are a few plastic clips on the drivers side where a grab handle could be fitted. )

the rear plastic trims come off after unbolting the front and rear seat belts and the plastics clips from the edge of the trim next to the rear boot door)

The headlining is held up by several plastic clips over the rear boot area and down the sides. Take care as you lower the head lining as it may be stuck to the windscreen, i had to leave the head lining in as it was stuck so i rested it on the front seats

The roof bars have 5 bolts

tip :- make sure you clean the theads and wind them into the bars rather than trying to thread them into the bars from inside the car

pull up and remove the plastic gutter trim ( it just pulls up after you unscrew the curved ends from above the boot.

you will see the dimples in the gutter, line up the roof bars with the dimples in the gutter recess ( there are dimple and spot welds so take your time and you will find the 5 threads will line up with 5 dimples

the dimples will line up with recess inside the car ( the big bolt hole is the rear seat belt mounting

get an 8mm hss drill bit and carefully drill the 5 holes ( if on the drives side dont hit the wires for the interior light

attempt to fit the roof bar now, if the holes dont quite line up dont panic! I had to enlarge 2 of them to 10mm.

Clean up all the swarf and paint the new holes with anti rust paint or waxoil etc

You need to carefully cut the gutter trim to fit between the mounting feet of the roof bars, i found a high speed mini disk in my dremmel made light work!

fit the rubber feet to the base of the bars

Put a lot of silicon or windscreen sealer round the feet of the roof bars and carefully slide the bars down onto the roof

carefully bolt the bars down from inside the car

check the gutter trims and rubber feet are ok during the tighten down

leave for a few hours for the silicon or windscreen sealer to dry and hose the car down for a few mins to check for leaks round the feet.

refit the headlining and interior parts!

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El Ricko · ******** Joined: 12 May 2008 Posts: 5453 Location: UK

here is the rare paj with one roof bar and YD ............. Shocked

and the second fitted

loony toon · Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 13:31 Post subject:

Where did yo9u get the roof bars from matey??

I want to fit a roof rack and cant find the bars, even to the point where i will bolt into the roof !!!

El Ricko · ******** Joined: 12 May 2008 Posts: 5453 Location: UK

roof bars were of a swb shogun from fil's pajeros.

there arnt any mounitings, you need to drill them

thule list a clip on roof rack but it does not fit as well as i wanted

Netsniperthefirst · Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 15:12 Post subject:

Looks good Laughing

so whats next Question

loony toon · Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 15:45 Post subject:

May just bolt mine to the roof to keep a lower profile then Wink

The roof is tough enough for that too Very Happy

and the roof rack i have i can move the mounts about so it will fit where i want it too

El Ricko · ******** Joined: 12 May 2008 Posts: 5453 Location: UK

tread carefully , the mounts are under the gutter trim, and closer to the center of the roof and it's just thin tin!

get some genuine rails and fit em its much safer to do like i did.

i have a close shave with a roof rack coming loose and was not good!

Hey colin, picked up some thule aero bars and a thule pacific 470 litre box yesterday Smile

will post a pic

with 2 boarder terriers, a siberian huskey and a prog there is not much room in a shortie!

Netsniperthefirst · Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 20:51 Post subject:

Hiya Iain sounds like your busy ? maybe it's time for a trailer? look forward to the pics Laughing

El Ricko · ******** Joined: 12 May 2008 Posts: 5453 Location: UK

got a trailor but the problem is storing it safely when your on holiday

trust me with a massive siberian huskey and 2 border terriers you need a long wheel base

fastnige · Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 19:40 Post subject:

now thats the way to do it.... looks good mate well done Cool

Jimbro · Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 9:08 Post subject:

Truck's looking good Iain congrats

charlieannear · Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 21:26 Post subject:

Hi Iain

Would you be able to replace the photos on this thread, please?

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