Custom roof rack light bar mount?

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I want to mount my 42" curved lightbar at the front of my roof rack. I see some people attach them to the rails further back, however I want mine at the front. Anybody know if there is a custom mount for z71 roof rack, one that might tie into roof bolts and all that to mount the light bar. and or have any good ideas to make one?

I set on my roof and took a few shots with rough location I'd like bar in.b9adeccc1fae64740e4f4f2b412d2e2b.jpgb68d943b97ac9826184b5414823c1eda.jpg9e1f21761d6250705ffee3531265dacb.jpgb02ba93752dea16479b4b70f0ccb2985.jpg02aef6ca3200d2c8bb7616538c902565.jpg

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I want to mount my 42" curved lightbar at the front of my roof rack. I see some people attach them to the rails further back, however I want mine at the front. Anybody know if there is a custom mount for z71 roof rack, one that might tie into roof bolts and all that to mount the light bar. and or have any good ideas to make one?

I set on my roof and took a few shots with rough location I'd like bar in.b9adeccc1fae64740e4f4f2b412d2e2b.jpgb68d943b97ac9826184b5414823c1eda.jpg9e1f21761d6250705ffee3531265dacb.jpgb02ba93752dea16479b4b70f0ccb2985.jpg02aef6ca3200d2c8bb7616538c902565.jpg

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I like the location. I’m sure you’ll get some good feedback shortly. [emoji106]
 

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I think the roof in front of the bar will block the beam significantly. As you elevate the bar you allow the projected light beam to light up the area closer to your Tahoe front end.
 
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I think the roof in front of the bar will block the beam significantly. As you elevate the bar you allow the projected light beam to light up the area closer to your Tahoe front end.
it is prooving a PITA to mock up a mount haha.. I really want it towards front of roof rack but there are no mounting pts up there. I may have to suspend it up higher and further back :(

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I toyed around with the front mounting position (picture below). This is BY far my favorite location (just a bit higher off the roof). I cut multiple patterns from cardboard but honestly, I have no fabrication skills and don't know how to translate those into a sturdy metal solution :(

I think for now I'll just have to attach to the top of the front brace for the roof rack. Unless anybody else knows a slick and easy way to fab something up to mount it at front of roof rack?

I'm working up a wiring solution as well HERE

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I love the location, and love how flush it is vs sticking up! Something I've been wanting to tackle as well. Could you show a shot at night with just the light bar on to see how well it illuminates? Does it throw a shadow due to the roof line?
 
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I just set it there to see how it would look. It needs raised up a couple inched, if ever I figure out how to make mounting brackets. There is no easy way to mount it there.

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I am super DUMB I figured out a no brainier easy way to mount the light bar. I just need to get a couple sticks of metal and brace them to the roof rack, they would stick out to the area of front where I want the light bar and light bar would bolt in there.

I'm going to prototype with wood then buy metal and possibly build a roof rack setup that integrates the light bar as such. I need to figure out a couple things though:

1. Does anybody sell a bracket that clams to the roof rack cross braces? Or perhaps into the roof rack tracks?
2. Where can I get a right angle light bar mount? I've got a curved 40" light bar. I bought from amazon warehouse, however the mounting brackets were missing :|

Video of what I'm starting to rig up:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CNtcofUS-4Nw6Cj3F1-gaqODFYOdXDh-/view?usp=sharing
 

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I put some pics up before and I thought I made a thread but I can’t find it. Anyways I have a straight bar on mine and used the curved 52” mounting brackets got them off amazon. Made a backing plate and drilled into my roof rack caps and bolted the light bar brackets to the caps with the backing plate then reinstalled the caps and installed the light bar. It sits about 1” off the roof right behind the sunroof.
 
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I will have to look for that post. I think the site's search eent doen a few months ago blowing out indexes to old posts, so have to use google to search the site.

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