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'