Another milestone in our van build and an item crossed off our to-do list.
Our sprinter did not come with any way to attach roof racks or anything up top, but we found an aftermarket source for rails that fit the factory holes and did this upgrade ourselves. Now we’ll be able to add a rack in the future and have some way to attach solar panels.
That’s all a ways down the road but it needed to be done before the insulation goes in.
This was a fun project for us both to work on, and all was great until I started losing sleep over it. But we figured out how to make it work better and here it is.
3 thoughts on “Roof Rails”
Hi, Great video on the installation of the roof rails. My van came with the roof rails and it looks like it has leaked before since there are spots on the headliner. Is there a way to seal the rails without removing them? Some sort of temperature or marine caulking that you would recommend?
Thanks and happy van-ning
Hi Antonio – Wow I don’t know. We are certainly not experts on this. I suppose you could try putting caulking along the edges of the rails and see if that does it. Do you have an interior ceiling other than the headliner? Just wondering if you can get to the fasteners if you need to remove it.
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