Pics attached of the brackets sitting on the castings with and without the tabs, and the instructions that seem to be saying to file the whole base flat. I saw one review on that a JKU owner said he sanded the feet flat and cut some rubber gasket material to sandwich between the feet and castings. That would seem best for mounting, but also a lot of filing on 6 feet.Īnybody deal with this and know what is supposed to be done? It seems it will mount up fine without filing the feet completely flat, but not sure if it will be as strong. The RR instructions say to file off any extra material so that the base of the foot is flat, but isn't clear if they just mean locally around where those tabs are removed, or if I'm actually supposed to file the entire bottom of each foot to take off that 1/8" of material so that the whole foot is flat. When I bolt the foot to the casting, there's a slight gap though seems the bolt maybe flexes the foot slightly closer to close the gap a bit. My question is, even after filing the tab locations flat, the entire bottom of the feet is arched slightly such that the center of the bracket where the bolt goes is maybe 1/16" to 1/8" higher than the outer edges. ![]() Rugged Ridge Sherpa Rack for 07-18 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited JK 4 Door. ![]() Rhino-Rack Gutter-Mount Vortex 2-Bar Roof Rack for 07-23 Wrangler JL, JK Unlimited, & 20-23 Gladiator JT. Those tabs must be used for mounting other ways. Black Horse Off Road Traveler Roof Rack for 07-18 Jeep Wrangler JK Unlimited 4-Door. The feet have little vertical tabs on the outer edges and the instructions say to snap those off and file down any extra raining material. ![]() I see some variants of this have the feet mounting to separate little adapter pieces that go in between the feet and the main rooftop cast Al brackets, but my instructions (and lack of those separate little pieces provided in my kit from Northridge 4x4) say to just bolt the feet straight to the castings. I went with the fixed RCL (low clearance) feet, to keep it as low as possible. Old thread, but I'm installing the Rhino Rack Backbone on my JKU, will be using it with 3 heavy duty crossbars to support a RTT (GFC Superlite) and possibly a 270dg awning (Alucab Shadow, probably) eventually.
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