Amazon had the mounting kits in stock, ordered with the rack. When installing I realized the mounts were a bit to low and the rack rested on the factory rail covers. The solution was to pick up some 1"x .5" poly spacers (12 of them) at ACE and install them between the rack and the mounts. That gave me about a 1/4" gap. Perfect.



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There are some mounts available that allow you to remove the factory rails. Can't remember where I saw them. However, I think it looks fine on factory rails.


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True, I was also thinking about rust and not just the weight.

@007Tacoma @e60ral Here's your teaser ;)

@007Tacoma did you ever switch your bars? I am looking at the exact same set up but I am concerned about the U-bolt mountings sliding on the slick looking steel LFD bars.

Thoughts?

Yes, I did! I love them. Very strong. Very rigid. Easy to mount AND easy to get underneath for bolting things to them. For the past month I had my Roam Adventure Co RTT on them. No U-Bolts needed. My RTT bolts directly to the LFD Off Road Ruggedized Crossbars.









I do use some rubber pads between the RTT rails and the crossbars.



Right now I am running my Rhino Rack Mesh bolted straight to the Ruggedized Crossbars, and I have been very happy with that setup as well. I didn't use the U-Bolts. I just used the provided (by Rhino Rack) powder coated plates that the U-Bolts would attach to. I will add pictures to this post once I get a chance.











I am working with @jafrush at LFD Off Road to create some extensions for my awning. Their customer service and products has been top notch since day one, and I will continue to give them my business!

I added pics to the post above.

Awesome. Thank you very much for the info.

I’m very interested in this set up or the Warrior Platform Rack. My needs are bars to connect Yakima JayLows to for the kayak and some sort of platform for misc camping gear, mostly firewood bundles.

Where I’m struggling is that the firewood should require a mesh floor but the JayLows need bars. I want to be able to do both at the same time, which makes the Warrior more attactive. But I’m just uncomfortable about the lack of info & reviews for the Warrior on the Internet. Seems sketchy. Also not sure how stable firewood bundles would be on the Warrior bars.

I know that a Gobi w/ the removal bars is the perfect solution but I can’t justify the cost. Prinsu may also work very well.

With the LFD Off Road Ruggedized Crossbars, you could easily mount a smaller mesh (Rhino Rack has a narrower one than mine) and still bolt on Kayak Carriers, but the JayLow carrier really needs a round or oval bar to secure correctly.

The Warrior Rack requires replacing the roof rails. The LFD Crossbars do not, and they are much more configurable.

Thanks again, very helpful.

Do you (or @jafrush ) know the the thickness of the LFD bars off hand? By thickness, I don’t mean gauge of steel, but the cross sectional height of the bar. Just wanting to check interface with clamp type mounts (like JayLow)

@Yinzer , our Crossbars are 2" wide by 1" tall.

Since this thread popped back up, may as well update... we sent four sets of 3/4 rails off to paint today, should be back next week. Nine sets of 7/8 rails should be going out to paint next week.

Once we can fit it in the budget, we are going to be getting one of your racks. I love our crossbars... we are just running out of room on the stock roof rails.

Please accept my money

We've got 5th gen steel and aluminum crossbars in stock ;) Contact me through IM or through our Facebook page, we can hook you up.