Which awning will mount to Toyota factory roofrack rails?

[Sverige]

I'm trying to avoid putting a full roofrack on my truck but want an awning. I'd like to mount it to the OEM roofrack rails. Do any of the awning manufacturers have a design that will allow me to attach to the Factory Land Cruiser rack? I'm particularly interested in the ARB and Ironman awnings.
Thx-

 

[nakman]

If you're willing to drill a couple holes in the factory rack cross bars, then you could do it with an ARB for sure, probably the Ironman as well but I haven't seen that one in person. However you'd be somewhat limited to the length of the awning, I'm not sure you'd want a full 2500mm awning up there, suspended by just 2 brackets less than 4' apart. Also the factory cross bars would put that too far towards the center of your roof, IMO...

What about picking up a used Yakima or Thule setup that clamps to your factory rails, then hook the awning up onto the Yakima or Thule cross bars? That would be better than just the factory rack, IMO.

something like this, if Thule:

or like this, if Yakima

Hope that helps!

 

[jonharis]

Foxwing, with their crossbars. Could probably do it similar to the above method. I imagine you could do this with any awning out there.

 

[Wilsil]

I would turn the brackets around so it points down.
Then you could still go into your garage.
I have the Toyota roof bars on my LX470 and are going to get 2 brackets for my 2 x 4 awning.

 

[1loudLX]

You could slip square nuts into the side rails and bolt a flat plate to the rack that extends straight up and mount the awning to that.

 

[AATLAS1X]

The cheapest must secure way I think is to run Thule load bars which can be found on CL at a fair price and their OE attachments for your OE rack.

This is my LabRak.com mount on Thule load bars, its flipped upside down to drop the awning closer to the ground. But you can see how it attached to the awning and load bars.

It's an incredibly robust mount.

The other option is to run LabRak front and rear mounts and Thule load bars across them and the awning. It's lower than your rack so its garage friendly.

Shane

 

[KlausVanWinkle]

You could slip square nuts into the side rails and bolt a flat plate to the rack that extends straight up and mount the awning to that.

The stock rack is like a standard 15 Series 80/20 extrusion. You could do what LOUD said or find a U shaped awning bracket and bolt it up that way.