Pics of 1st gen tacoma roof racks

Can you show us pics of the weld design you did to avoid putting holes?

 

I did not know about this "stretch kit" thank you.

 

If i did a tray i think i would get a smitty built one. Cheaper and looks like a lower profile

 

That would be pretty cool. I have all the armor on my truck next step is lighting. For me my pack rack is so tall i am trying to fill that gap between the roof and the rack so maybe a solar panel at a rake would look good

 

If you're not drilling holes in your roof, are you really even installing a rack?

 

So a really expensive wind deflector?

 

I regret drilling holes in mine. Mine's starting to make all kinds of noise when the truck moves around and I think it's the well nuts inside of the holes I drilled, I gotta take it off one of these days and see. But I find myself missing the cleaner look of no roof rack. If I take it off I might just keep it off, but then there's that issue of those 8 pesky 1/2" holes I drilled.

Figure some kind of patch kit (or plug) with a little bondo and some color matching paint and no one will no the difference, seeing as how it's on the roof anyway.

 

Could I get more pics of your rack and how it mounts? That's exactly what I've been thinking about doing on mine

 

Here's the link to my rack I made myself, couldn't be happier with it a year+ later. I love it! People ask me about it all the time, but I ain't gonna lie, I really don't use it all too often... It really is a pain to throw stuff up there when I've got a pretty awesome bed that's generally empty.

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/camper-roof-rack.541617/

 

This is more reasonable than drilling into the roof in my opinion. Nice post! Thanks for writing this up

 

That looks awesome real cool project

 

I think i am going to go this route just because the choice of taking it off like nothing even happenend

 

Thats becoming the general use of these i feel like haha