Simple Roof Rack and Crossbars

The bar spacing on the bars mounted to the cab (using the factory locations) is about 36" on center. When I first started researching a simple cross bar rack, the retail places and the Yakima website all acted clueless about how to use the factory locations on the 2024 Taco and continually pushed me toward a complicated system that would have cost twice as much as my Sherpa parts, and with questionable relative value... but they did offer the areo bar feature.

The modification of the spacer bars in the channel was super simple, I just cut then to accommodate the interested bar towers, and then snapped then back into place needed in blob of silicone.

With my rear cross bar, the spacing from the front cross bar to the back is almost 12', and from the rear cross bar on the trailer hitch to the rear cross bar on the cab is about 9'

 

I'm curious about wind noise and easy to remove as I am still undecided and also interested in reusing Yakima round bars I own.

The Yakima configurator doesn't get those for me. Their optional configurator site doesn't list products such as LandingPads and the SkyLine towers but a local paddling shop as close to a rack expert there is says that works.

 

I’m super interested in that solution but would prefer the shorter length bars. Would something like

how’s the wind noise ?