tinny on roof of hilux??? help!!

a 3.7, and you had no probs?, how was it on fuelwith it up there? I am leaning on the 3.7 just thought it bloody high and how was it all off road, stall stable?
Was going to rip the back seat out,make storage and a stand for the motor, locked up and out of the way then
Cheers troyza

Hi Robyn
Was wondering how much extra fuel u use with the boat on the camper trailer versus not on.

Mattie

Hi Troyza
We had no problems getting the boat on the car but that was back in 1990 and we were a bit younger than we are now. Our roof rack was a low mount one so the boat was as close to the vehicle as possbile. We had no problems offroad with it we did the plenty, the tanami the Gibb River Road, the roper Bar track. We carried our motor in the back of the Hilux but we had a canopy that your could lock.
Cheers Jenkie

Hi Mattie
Havent really looked at the fuel consumption bit between on top of the car which we did with the Hilux and on top of the camper trailer with the Nissan. My husbands thoughts are would be cheaper to run when not on top of the car but I sometimes think going one way against the other convenience comes out on top even if it costs a bit more.
Cheers Jenkie

so why did you go for the smaller, how was it off road up there, any problems? and fuel?
Cheers troyza

Thought the 3.7 was a bit too big at the time but when I saw it on the other Rodeo I thought it was ok.
I had a couple of issues. The cab and the tray both move independently. As a result you can't put the boat on bars on the tub and roof bars as well. I had mine only on the bars in the tub. But the cab and tub still move/flexed to such an extent that the tip of the boat touched the roof at some stage during the trip as there was a small dent! When making the racks I thought I'd left enough of a gap (100-120mm). I fixed the boat to racks with bolts. The went though tags that were welded to the cross bars and bolted through the rim of the boat. This works great as you don't have to worry about straps over the hull wearing through. I also thought as insurance i'd tie the the front of the boat to the bull bar with a tie down and a tie down from each handle on the rear quarters to the rear step just incase. I didn't think I had them tied too tight but I noticed a small crack in the rear quarters on the top where in the rim was welded to the gussets in the rear quarters of the tinnie. Also the same cracks were where the small deck at the front of the boat was welded at the rim. I've put this down to the tie downs being too tight and flexing the tinnie when going on the rough roads. I would do the same again but not worry about the tie downs.
Fuel, used heaps but didn't worry too much as I wa going to do the trip up the Cape regardless.

Leroy