Will do for sure. I'm looking to do a tool bin or two half bins, whichever I can get first. Should be able to get some tools, recovery gear as well as install power management and a couple 50ish AH lithiums. I'm not too big on the kitchen because I feel like it's too much space for little return. Looks cool but not my flavor.
Looking good!First trip with everything setup and it was a success. Really happy with how the cap did overall. Super happy to finally have it installed and working.
Couple small things to sort out. The replacement rear lift gate door didn’t have the bottom rubber seal trimmed to the proper width. So I had cut that down a bit to get it to close properly, not that big of a deal. My seal does crap on the tailgate pretty bad still despite putting the extra blocks under the back. I’ve got some additional height units on the way to try and space it up a tad bit more.
I went with some @Front Runner load bars for the top. They were rock solid, no issues. But I now wish I’d just gone for one of their racks since I could use the QD RTT mounts. My poor knuckles still aren’t happy after the install/removal
The Roofnest Condor was also great. We had an evening on the trip while camping in Rabbit Valley, overlooking the Colorado River, with winds gusting well over 40mph... despite a rough night sleeping, nothing bent or fabric torn. ? (Our 7 year old slept straight through the entire thing, go figure!)
Again, this cap is really so well thought out. I’m very glad to have gotten through the issues with damaged panels tonfinally have it installed and in use. Hopefully RSI can keep up with demand and get through the QC/Shipping damage hiccups, as I think we all want to see them be successful in the long term.
Couple of shots:
Are you sleeping 3 in Your Condor? I’ve been looking at all the RTTs... we have 2 smalls kids (2 & 4) now, but might still need the XL for all 4 of us.
I forget the word used in the instructions, but “graze” comes to mind. I can’t get that to happen unless I go very light on the clamp torque while using 15mm blocks. If I torque to spec, it just dimples the plastic rail caps as reported by others. Even with less torque, the ribs on the D gaskets are already wearing off after a week. The gaskets are very very soft. I have some 20mm blocks coming so hopefully I can put more torque on the clamps, closer to what’s called for, and just graze the gaskets. It’s close now but I had to back off the clamp torque a lot.
The difference might be the track hardware. Frontrunner has a specific mounting kit they sell to attach their roof rack to the RSI cap for the Gladiator. The default kit that ships with the rack has to have the nuts modified in order to use them.
RSI load bars made for Smartcap work independent of make/model of truck. The full size bars are 53” in length in comparison to midsize bars that are 45” in length. I needed wider bars so I contacted OR (who contacted RSI) and we found out that they will work. The only possible issue RSI brought up is the gull-wing door coming in contact with the bar. After measuring, this shouldn’t be an issue.
I think you will be fine since the load bars will be about 3” above the rails. I recently did some measuring and if I recall 53” was getting close at the rail height, so the load bars will probably be fine. I was seeing how long I could go with low profile extrusion.
Mine certainly is more than a graze. Where can one get thicker blocks?
Shoot! These look like they'll take a month to get from China.
