1998 Subaru Wagon factory roof rack on 91 Wagon
jdmitrswapped
New Wagonist
Okay i just completed my rack project and i must say it looks great. It cost me $27 from my junkyard, and i already had primer and paint laying around.
Here it is with just the rails.
pop off the covers to expose the two bolts on each corner
cut the crossbars down to civicwagon width
the top one is the subaru length and the lower one is civicwagon width
drill new holes for the brackets to screw onto the crossbars, i used 3/16 for the crossbar and slightly smaller for the new holes on the bracket
The rubber strip slides out and it's ready for cleaning and paint.
And the newly painted and assembled crossbars.
This involves drilling eight holes into the roof and possibly getting leaks. I'm not recommending you do this but hey it's a $27 option and you end up with a factory looking rack.
I'm currently debating how I will waterproof it :?
I hope this serves somebody some good. If anyone is interested in doing the same let me know because there are two more donor Subie's here.
Here it is with just the rails.
pop off the covers to expose the two bolts on each corner
cut the crossbars down to civicwagon width
the top one is the subaru length and the lower one is civicwagon width
drill new holes for the brackets to screw onto the crossbars, i used 3/16 for the crossbar and slightly smaller for the new holes on the bracket
The rubber strip slides out and it's ready for cleaning and paint.
And the newly painted and assembled crossbars.
This involves drilling eight holes into the roof and possibly getting leaks. I'm not recommending you do this but hey it's a $27 option and you end up with a factory looking rack.
I'm currently debating how I will waterproof it :?
I hope this serves somebody some good. If anyone is interested in doing the same let me know because there are two more donor Subie's here.
Comments
thanks bro!
and here it is installed
Yakima makes mounts that attach to these crossbars as well. I'll post a review once I get some. I'm waiting to pick up used ones on CL because i'm a cheap bastid lol.
heres mine
came with the yakima cross bars but i grabbed the fairing off ebay
wow that's sick you'rs had the Yakima crossbars! and it looks dope on your wagon! what did you have to do to make it fit??
i saw that rack you have, i was on the 99 subie if remember correctly
then there were 96 which had a different (ugly IMO) rack as well, but all the 98's i saw had the one like mine - it's strange there were so many variations between the few years
it fit perfect just had to drill the holes