Canopies and RTT’s

[Escape.idiocracy]

Hello all!
First and foremost- feel free to use this thread as a showoff/photo thread…

Super curious as to how anyone is going forward with mounting a tent to their canopy.

Initially I really wanted to go with a GFR Camper and be done- silly overbuilt etc…..
But as it happens, I did some work for Someone and payment ended up being a decked system and century/leer canopy.
century/leer both state 225lbs dynamic, 600 static. Which should be enough…. However-yesterday and today were spent putting a couple hundred miles on washboard gravel roads. All of the canopy clamps came loose at some point 3 times…so looking to ditch the c-clamps and go through bolts with some aircraft split nuts vs the nylocs.
Now I’m not knocking leer or century. It’s a well made top and I can improve the mounts to my liking…. But I’m a little concerned with what I’m going to be able to do once 180~ are out put on top….
So- anyone else out there rocking a RTT on a canopy and driving back roads fast enough to leave dust trails?

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[HooliganActual]

I’m probably not going to be much help as I am running an Alu-Cab canopy with a James Baroud Evasion RTT. I specifically got the Alu-Cab canopy to “combat” the very issues you are dealing with.

First off the Alu-Cab has rails manufactured into the roof which makes attaching load bars and a tent extremely easy.

As far as your issue with the canopy coming loose, the Alu-Cab actually has rails inside along its base that allows it to be clamped to the Jeep Trail Rails using bolts and nylon nuts. See the below picture in the foreground near the spray nozzle. I haven’t had mine come loose in the two years it’s been installed and it gets a serious workout all the time. If your RSE cap has the ability to be attached in this manner, it should do well.

I know there are others on here that run the RSE cap, so I’m sure they’ll be along eventually and will probably have better and more specific advice.

 

[Escape.idiocracy]

thanks!
Their clamping setup is definitely way better than the factory deal.
I’ll look at the Alucab and compare to the gfrc. I have seen a few nice alucab setups when I was in California (Toyota guys) and they were always super nice/quality. If I remember right costs were around $15k?

Edit- canopy from alu-cab looks to be $3,400
full camper is $10k

I’ll add their canopy to the list and compare between the gfrc. ?. Thank you!

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