Look'n good!
My wife and I about to head out on another road trip, but not as far a Maine. We're calling this run our dead president's hunt.
E.g. Mount Rushmore and then Yellowstone.
We just did a 1400 mile door to door from LA to my parents house. We camped out in Nevada and Wyoming with a RTT both ways. There was no good roof rack option for the 2018 GX460, apart from Prinsu, who shipped me the wrong one (mislabeled GX470 rack), and time was tight. So I took some measurements and sketched out what I needed, then figured out what aluminum bar stock was available, went down to Gardena and brought it home. Good excuse to fire up the TIG welder; it is only a little Dynasty 100 from about 20 years ago but with a tank of helium you can do a lot of damage on solid aluminum.
Anyway the welds aren't all pretty, as you might expect from a 50yo dad who normally works in a hospital and has two sons 8 and 10 asking "when are we leaving" constantly for about a day and a half while I am on the hood figuring out how to weld the front basket over my head upside down WAAAY out of position and not set the windshield wipers on fire. But the older son was actually very useful in pointing out when the moving blanket I used to protect the car started on fire, which was a more often than I expected... Anyway, in case you feel inspired, here is what you can accomplish with a lot of "don't take no for an answer", a skill saw, a drill press, and about $60 in rack feet from Colorado (Gamiviti - you saved my ass on this build, literally dumping the stuff in the mail and emailing me again to tell me you were headed to the post office and to PayPal NOW IF YOU WANT IT OUT TODAY). Major props to that guy, whoever he is.
I decided to put the front basket on because we are four people and a 100lb komondor in back, with a Thule box on the hitch and a 100qt coleman strapped to the hitch in front of the Thule with all our food in it. FYI be sure to put a disposable aluminum serving pan under the plastic cooler, because the exhaust at 80mph will heat the swing arm up enough to melt the cooler plastic to the steel otherwise. Sorry but no photos of that; you can use your imagination. It did survive in its semi gelatinous state through 117 degree heat all the way across CA, NV, AZ, UT, WY and into SD...and back without melting all the way through the insulation. And it kept the food ice cold for 2800 miles, on the dot.
But I digress. The little feet have slots and are adjustable, so I just figured out my bolt spacing and countersunk some holes into the tops of the bar stock to recess the heads of the bolts holding the rack to the rack feet. Plan at this point was to slam the RTT right down on the aluminum bars and just tap some machine screws right into the bars, through the bottom of the RTT. As it happened, I didn't have time to remove the aluminum extrusions from the bottom of the RTT, so I just used the cool slidey grabber thingys that iKamper includes in their kit to stick the tent to the rack. It worked great and looked fine, but the purist in me will probably slam it down onto the rack the next time I do it. Disadvantage is harder to remove the tent afterward.
Anyway, some detail shots of the rack:
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