Roof rack mount cracked

[maillet282]

So Walked out to go on my lunch break today and noticed the rear most driver side roof rack mount looking odd. so jumped up on my rig and noticed this :

found a way around not being able to post pics

so on my way to lunch I stopped in to my local Nissan Dealership and asked for a quote to see how much this is going to cost. Well they quoted me 450 CAD for the driver side rail ( part does not come seperate)

so now I am thinking about options

1. Glue and make everything all water tight like I never noticed it
2. look here to find somebody selling/parting out their roof rack willing to shipp to Canada
3. make my owne aftermarket rack *( first time welding something was 2 years ago)
4. bite the bullet and buy the part from Nissan

 

[metzican]

Maybe you can find a Xterra at a Pull a part junk yard or someone can and send it to you.

 

[maillet282]

working on it. same with looking into people that are selling their racks after upgrading to a Gobi or something else

 

[drbandkgb]

I have one of these in my back yard... If I can get it off the old bar its yours... just pay shipping

 

[Prime]

Yeah. All that stuff just bolts apart. Should be able to replace the foot with no issue.

 

[RATTFINK]

Oh, snap!

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[maillet282]

Nice.

on a side note, I am helping a buddy of mine install his snorkel on his 12 P4X this weekend. after that's all done, I might start tearing my roof rack appart waiting for that bad boy to get here. Thanks again for the help drbandkgb.

once I will be topless I might mesure out the rivnut patern and start looking into the feasability of me building a custome rack. but to be honest, with the rescent news of my wife being pregnant and the possibility of us getting stationed across Canada I am not sure how far along this custome roof rack idea is going to get

 

[metzican]

Nice.

on a side note, I am helping a buddy of mine install his snorkel on his 12 P4X this weekend. after that's all done, I might start tearing my roof rack appart waiting for that bad boy to get here. Thanks again for the help drbandkgb.

once I will be topless I might mesure out the rivnut patern and start looking into the feasability of me building a custome rack. but to be honest, with the rescent news of my wife being pregnant and the possibility of us getting stationed across Canada I am not sure how far along this custome roof rack idea is going to get

Congrats on the pregnant wife. I've never heard of that piece breaking I wounder if water got in there and froze or something.

 

[maillet282]

thanks,
I think that's what happened, it's been a bitterly cold winter out here this year. had down to -54*C (-65.2F converted using Google ) with the wind chill one day and +2 the next. I am just glad that spring is coming and that it's starting to warm up. time to start getting the rig ready for wheeling, camping and scuba diving.

 

[metzican]

So the bitterly cold winter broke the roof rack or made your wife end up pregnant!!!!

 

[maillet282]

both lol it was a contributing factor

 

[maillet282]

sitting here at work, I started thinking on what materials I could use to build a roof rack. ( for when I do have the $$$ I want to have a parts list and a set of plans) would 1 inch EMT Conduit ( the galvanized pipe used to route electrical wires work to make the baisic framework of the roof rack something similar to this quick drawing I made up

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so everything you would see there would be made with this style of tubing. then to attach the roof rack to the truck, Iwould use something that is stronger/ structually sound

would these pipes be too weak to acomplish this outer frame?