You ll notice in the early pictures that four holes are drilled.
Homemade roof rack cross bars.
Ensure that the roof rack is in position and properly adjusted leaving good space at the centre.
Drill where you marked.
Remember to measure both front and back.
Lay the crossbars on your side rails and grab one of your u bolts.
A 10 piece cost me about 2 00.
To bolt it together i installed each bolt loosely and then tightened them up from.
Using your u bolt mark where holes need to be drilled on the underside of your crossbar.
Measuring and trial fitting.
25 diy roof cross bars step 1.
Repeat for the other side and the second bar.
Diy roof rack cross bars step 1.
After deciding on a general design in my head i headed to the hardware store s plumbing.
Mount the bars to the rack.
I used an old piece of aluminum beam from a tractor trailer to make cross rails for the roof rack on my 2003 honda odyssey.
Avoid drilling too deep into the roof of the car.
My bars were wider at the rear of the car.
Using a flat head screw driver assemble the roof rails to the top of the car by sxrewing the side rails and the cross bars together.