My roof-mount work joined aluminum profiles and custom drilled brackets. The five-hole L-plates in my purchases provide another connector layout for the extrusion kit.
The drilled connectors and fasteners joining my added extrusion to the roof rack.
The item in my kit
I bought Five-Hole 2020 L-Bracket Plates as part of my camper van equipment.
My roof-mount work joined aluminum profiles and custom drilled brackets. The five-hole L-plates in my purchases provide another connector layout for the extrusion kit.
Where it fits my build
For the light bar, I cut an added extrusion beam and made three short drilled connectors. The rack side used quarter-twenty hardware, while the smaller 2020 extrusion used M5 hardware.
The different nuts changed the assembly sequence. A rack nut had to slide in through an opening, which meant undoing bolts I had already tightened; the smaller nuts could move and spin while I tried to start a bolt. I used an Allen key to reposition them.
The profiles and joint hardware during my roof-mount assembly.
My build notes
The cutting and drilling made the components, but positioning the small hardware took its own time. I recorded the difference between inserting the rack nuts and fishing the smaller nuts into place because it affected how the joint went together.
The profile, connector shape, bolt and slot nut all contributed to the assembly sequence.
Alternative products
Two alternatives to compare
The right-angle bracket uses two adjoining faces with a different hole arrangement. The inside-corner connector moves the joint hardware into the corner, changing the space occupied around the profiles.
2020 Right-Angle Corner Brackets
These right-angle brackets have drilled fastening holes on their adjoining faces. Their kit groups the plates with M5 screws and sliding slot nuts.
