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In advance of building out an exploring platform for the warmer months, I was starting to piece together a kit for the crossbars. I had a leftover Yakima SkinnyWarrior that I attached alongside a Kuat Trio. Having the space, and wanting to add a semi-permanent tool/accessories box, I started looking into options for something I could add alongside the other two that I could mount directly to the crossbars. I didnt want to have to buy a whole LocknLoad system or similar, having already fit the Kuat and SW so it was a matter of dimension hunting and I landed on the Roam 95L as it looks quite fetching, is quite overly capable in terms of durability, and more importantly, would fit almost perfectly beside the other two items.
In the hunt for mounting options, i wanted to be able to come up through the box with the bolt instead of having to hunt for a nut in the T slot of the cross bar and after some searching here and elsewhere, landed on the 3/8 carriage bolt to run in the crossbar slots. One thing that helped immensely was being able to take the bolts and have my local shop shave down the dome of the bolt, bringing down the height of the dome and allowing for much easier travel in the crossbar. Likewise, it allows me to leave everything intact when attaching and removing the box and being able to slide the box on and off the bars by just loosening the nuts, without having to take it all apart to remove it from the vehicle.
What was tricky was having to measure out the holes I would need to drill in the Roam box. As the crossbars - over the bed of the R1T - are about ~32.5" apart if memory serves, those measurements landed on different places, and heights, of the molded Roam box (seen in below photo), so I needed different lengths of carriage bolts to anchor the box, and allow less protruding up into the interior of the box.
After some trial and error, I landed on the 1" for the front (top of photo, lowest part of the Roam box mold, closest to front of bed) and 1.5" (bottom of photo, taller part of Roam box mold, closest to rear of bed)
You can get an idea of how much the bolts protrude into the box from the above photo. Should leave ample space for some locking washers as well as loosening the bolts to slide the entire box on and off the rails, without taking the hardware out.
And lastly, a photo of all the crossbar accessories and extraneous photos of the bolts used, the last one depicting about how much I shaved off the dome of the bolt to allow easier travel along the crossbar.
I'm sure there could be an easier solution, but the process was fun to figure out and if anyone else is keen on mounting a Roam box for around $20, this was not difficult at all. Sorry for any confusion in my wording, this is my first write-up over here. Hope it helps someone!
In the hunt for mounting options, i wanted to be able to come up through the box with the bolt instead of having to hunt for a nut in the T slot of the cross bar and after some searching here and elsewhere, landed on the 3/8 carriage bolt to run in the crossbar slots. One thing that helped immensely was being able to take the bolts and have my local shop shave down the dome of the bolt, bringing down the height of the dome and allowing for much easier travel in the crossbar. Likewise, it allows me to leave everything intact when attaching and removing the box and being able to slide the box on and off the bars by just loosening the nuts, without having to take it all apart to remove it from the vehicle.
What was tricky was having to measure out the holes I would need to drill in the Roam box. As the crossbars - over the bed of the R1T - are about ~32.5" apart if memory serves, those measurements landed on different places, and heights, of the molded Roam box (seen in below photo), so I needed different lengths of carriage bolts to anchor the box, and allow less protruding up into the interior of the box.
After some trial and error, I landed on the 1" for the front (top of photo, lowest part of the Roam box mold, closest to front of bed) and 1.5" (bottom of photo, taller part of Roam box mold, closest to rear of bed)
You can get an idea of how much the bolts protrude into the box from the above photo. Should leave ample space for some locking washers as well as loosening the bolts to slide the entire box on and off the rails, without taking the hardware out.
And lastly, a photo of all the crossbar accessories and extraneous photos of the bolts used, the last one depicting about how much I shaved off the dome of the bolt to allow easier travel along the crossbar.
I'm sure there could be an easier solution, but the process was fun to figure out and if anyone else is keen on mounting a Roam box for around $20, this was not difficult at all. Sorry for any confusion in my wording, this is my first write-up over here. Hope it helps someone!
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