Well.. someone beat me to it... but yes it's a Garvin Track Rack. Speaking to the company... they had plans to put one together as a kit for the new Jeep.... but I beat them to it. As for the owners manual... oh well. I asked the people at the dealership... they were like... go for it. I've had two adults standing up there and no signs of fatigue. I can bounce on the thing without even a little movement.

 

Yep i like the Rack as well very nice, and you are correct FOOL for using that vehicle on the sand

 

nice jeep! that rack is cool

 

The rack looks really good.

The only problem I see is it eventually breaking. When stationary, the static load on it can be into the hundreds of pounds but once you start driving the dynamic load increases many a times.

This is still a great idea, so what I would do is add additional supports somewhere under the most load bearing area to the roll bars.

I used a similar technique on my Surco rack and a Liberty. I've had inexcess of 220lbs pounds on the rack, on the trail with no problems. It's rated for 65 lbs. All I did was added 4 additional supports to help distribute the load.

One warning, it's sometimes hard to see fatigue on these hard tops, so when they snap it will all start coming down, but if all you do is brace the hardtop a little on the roll bars, you'll be fine.

 

I used the camp at burlinggame all the time when I was a kid. Do they still have access to that pond or is that gone??

 

They still have the pond.

 

has the campground changed much the last 15yrs??

 

I haven't been in that campground exept to the office for my beach pass in longer than that. But, shadowman is headed there in a few weeks I think. TJ Shadowman... not FJ Shadowman.

 

I'll have to shoot him a pm to take some pics for me.

 

It looks like you had a great day at the beach. Your rig looks awesome too!