Ford Transit Solar Panel Rack

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Ford transit solar panel rack. Each side of the van has 8 1 2 foot runs of unistrut. Our aluminum roof racks are a perfect spot to carry long and bulky cargo and accessories. A roof rack may be the most useful modification that you can do to your ford transit. Ford does not recommend that anything is added to the roof if it not attached with the provided m8 mounting holes and the weight is only applied to the area immediately around the hole.
You could choose yakima rails but that means drilling holes in the roof. The solar panel roof mount was built from scratch by securing aluminum slotted hole strut channels unistrut through factory drilled holes in the roof of the ford transit. A 4th solar panel could fit on the roof but was not installed. In this video i walk you through the details of my diy solution for mounting solar panels on my extended long wheel base high roof ford transit van.
Inorder to use yakima s towers the ford transit needs some type of rack rail system. The factory drilled holes are capped as shown below. They can also be used as a platform to sleep on enjoy a sunset in your favorite lawn chair or take pictures from. The aa racks ax302 series is a universal roof rack system which requires no drilling for installation.
We chose a used 2018 full size ford transit cargo van and 3 lg 360w solar panels.