The spare tire is now in the back of my cargo area, i had to remove the drawer unit therefore. I´ll be modifying the drawer somehow in the future and installing it back. The tire stands on the left side and is tighten with some straps, picture here:
Some of you know that i had a leaking bds shock. Sending the devective shock back to bds is too expensive from germany. So i had to change the rear shocks and decided to go with some old man emu nitrocharger shocks. Many offroad guys are using them here. The y are compressed shorter than the original shocks and longer when they are extended, which is giving me a better articulation.
Here is a link about the shocks:
http://www.rocky-road.com/omeshocks.htmlAnd a Picture of them installed in my Trailblazer:
The roof lights i had installed in the past, had the problem that they were a little to low mounted to spent enough light. This was the installation in the past:
From reading here in the forum about the offroad roof carriers in different types, it was my wish to add one.. But I want the carrier a little bit longer, something like the gobi roof carriers. I researched for some products but they all had the problem that they would be really expensive. From that point i decided to fab my own. My parents had a really old carrier in the garden which was hanging on the back on a garden house.. Oh man that one was so rusty! I took the side parts from the carrier and sanded and grinded that 2 parts and saw that these 2 pieces had the correct length for may carrier. After powder coating them in black these ones are like new! For the crossbars i decided to go with some heavy profiles. For the front crossbar with the lights and the rear crossbar i took these profiles:
For the inner profiles i wanted something stronger and took these ones:
I decided mainly in these profiles because they are so strong that you could stand on them and because they had the chance to mount some nut inside the rails like these:
You can adjust them to any point in the rails where you want and bolt something like this to the rails:
After building the carrier, the problem was how to mount the carrier to the roof?
I came to this solution for the rear:
And to this solution for the front:
These parts are fitting inside the factory roof rails and are bolted thru the factory mounting points:
Here some pictures of the mounted carrier:
View from above
View from the front:
View from inside thru the roof window:
And finally from the left side:
Switch in overhead console for front lights and roof lights: