Drilling into factory roof rack

Anyone here ever drilled into the factory roof rack or the cross bars? I never use them so I'm not concerned if it removes my ability to throw stuff on top of it but yesterday my work truck, a F250 super duty got totaled and I may use my personal truck indefinitely. In order to do that I'd need to put a light bar up on my roof preferably, we usually use Code 3 Mini Bars along with Show-Me traffic advisors but I'm not sure hot to set a light bar up on my roof without it blocking the side views of the light on my roof.

As a reference here is what we usually equip on our rood (I don't have a headache rack on my truck though)

I don't want the traffic advisor, I don't need it really for my job. I already have two strobes installed in the rear of my rear head rests but I really do need the roof light bar, it moves traffic well.

 

Hmm..... *cricket* *cricket*

 

I thought about it but I figured I'd need to torque that dude down hard if it's going to be up there like that while I'm banging around off road in quarry's or going 85mpg on the hwy. Not sure how I feel about it yet. I'd like to just go with a bigger light bar but they cost so much. Idk why we use code 3 lights, they are awesome and everything but good God they are stupid expensive.

 

Alright, I'll do that if I go that route. I wonder how wind noise would be though, because with the bars locked across the wind noise is horribe. I may have to look a different avenues. I thought about putting a linear optic strobe at each corner and then put a bar in the back of my glass and then the front of my grill and fog lights...but idk if that will look as clean as the light bar. I have a bit of ocd and I want it to look professional. My f250 was set up how I wanted but I don't want a headache rack on my personal truck and I doubt my company would buy all the off road fabricates stuff I want lmao.
Do you think I'd have a problem getting U bolts to wrap and hold around the factory rails? They are kind of a flattened oval shape and not really round like a U bolt is shaped.

 

I'm not sure if you've heard it before with nothing loaded on it but it sounds like your truck is about to take flight lol. It's horrible. I put up with it for a few weeks around town and I had to travel a few hundred miles for buisness and I pulled over after an hour and folded them back in. Idk why Toyota ever released them, they should have been designed better.

 

What about a headache rack in the bed?

 

Ok, what about a sweet ass Michael j fox back to the future tube roll bar with KC lights in either side? The 80's can't lead you wrong! Crank up the 38 special and the white snake, throw it in four low, turn on all the flashers and mall crawl the shit out of that thing!

 

Just the picture brings a smile

 

It would be sweet to rig the bar so it could telescope down when you don't need the lights to cut out the drag ang pick up the mpgs!

 

Sorry I haven't hit you guys back up on here, when work gets crazy I just go to sleep when I get off lol

 

I can't decide if I really like that or not... after a week of though I have decided to just put enough lights on the truck that I won't need a light bar up top.
So far I have 4 wired up in the rear and I have 4 more on the way.
https://youtu.be/aQYxvV5yiIE