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A canoe rack is any good accessory for a choose-up truck. It can be used to tow your canoe to your favorite pool or to carry ladders and other accessories not unlike rafts, canoes and a lot more. You can build these racks out of 2-inch steel pipes if you have welding equipment or access to a welder. They will be very good and sturdy simply like your truck and it truly whips carrying the canoe from the bed along with the tail gate down.

Difficulty: Moderately Challenging

Instructions

2-inch, square steel pipe Welder and welding filler bar Metal saw

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1 Measure the distance from the top of the truck cab walls to the best of the truck cab. Then add 7 inches, also lower four periods about 2-inch steel pipe to this length.

2 Measure the width about your truck cab, from the center of the top of one of the van taxi walls, to the center about the top regarding the other. Therefore reduce two lengths about steel pipe to this measurement additionally 4 inches. Likewise, mark lower the width away from the center of one truck cab wall to the center of the additional for the next stage.

3 Set two about the pipes you cut in step 1 side by side next to each hence they are perfectly parallel to each additional also this range apart (the top center about one truck taxi wall to the additional).

4 Clamp one of the pipes you cut from stage 3 across the two pipes thus it remains 5 inches out of the top also perfectly perpendicular to them. Use a square and some level to produce sure they are perpendicular plus straight. Tack weld the pipe by both ends, then make use of a filler bar to create a full bead around the seam of the pair pipes.

5 Repeat action 4 for the other dual pipes you cut in step 1. This creates two assistances with the pick-up truck rack.

6 Cut two 3-inch-by-3-inch 1/4-inch metal plates using a metal saw out of a sheet of steel plating. Exercise 1/8-inch mounting holes around the exterior edges of the metal plates using a power drill with carbide bit.

7 Weld the plates to the bottom of the pipes that style the rack supports using a filler bar and welder.

8 Collection the racks on the wagon bed walls and indicate holes to drill to mounting. Remove the racks plus then drill your mounting holes with a 1/8-inch carbide tipped drill tad. Then install the racks by lining them up to the holes and driving in 1/8-inch steel screws with a dab of silicone on each and every.

9 Measure the length between the two racks (front and again), then cut other length of steel pipe to this period plus 4 inches.

10 Series this pipe increase with the racks, and bench mark holes from each and every end to mount the support by means of screws to the racks. Then drill out 1/4-inch holes straight through two pipes. Line pipe holes up so the holes match, therefore thread a 5-inch, 1/4-inch bolt through the holes, secured with a locking washer and silicone-tipped nut on either ends. This will support the rack and allow it to be removed and saved very easily.

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