rack receivers
Make your life easy with a set of Gamiviti rack receivers. Compatible with just about every small and mid-sized awning, shower enclosure, and other accessory, this innovative quick-release system allows you to mount or dismount your awning or other accessory from your rack in just seconds. A slotted bracket on the awning side will mate to any extrusion spacing, while the receiver side mounts to the rack either above or below the rack surface. Once installed, you are able to put your awning or accessory onto your vehicle in under mere seconds, by simply lining up the receivers, sliding it into place, then installing the hitch pins. This gives you several advantages, the most noteworthy including:
Leave your awning in your garage or shed when you don't need it. The sun & weather will fatigue that cover. The added height is more clearance and wind drag, and the presence can sometimes attract unwanted attention.
Easily remove the awning when loading other gear onto your rack- no need to reach over the awning, wrestle straps behind it, or curse at it while you try to zip up that RTT cover. Just set it on the ground while you get all that other stuff squared away, then slide it back on and drive off.
Add additional rack side or awning side mounts for greater versatility with adding the right accessory for your next adventure, including the ability to move your awning to either side of the vehicle while at camp, without tools.
Mounts to the underside of Gamiviti racks, allowing the top of the rack to remain open for other items and uses, without interference.
One set contains the male end, female end, and the snap pin to connect them. Bolt them to your rack with the rack hardware, and to your awning or other accessory with the hardware that came with it. Parts come ready to install to your rack using common tools - a 7/32" hex wrench and 9/16" open end wrench.
2 sets are adequate for most ARB, CVT, Foxwing, Batwing, 23zero, Overland Vehicle Systems, Darche, Overland Pros, etc. awnings. For really heaving awning 3 is recommended... and you can use 3 sets on smaller awnings too if you like to overbuild things. $15 shipping covers any quantity in the US, or bundle these with your rack purchase and pay no extra shipping. For more tips on how to install, be sure to see the awning installation page. Be sure to see the videos at the bottom of this page for an in depth look at this product.
2025 release Gen 2.5 - All of the updates from 2024, and more.
Awning side is even higher for greater clearance with the rear doors.
Introduction of channel design on the awning side, allowing for additional bolts to secure brackets to awning and access to the inside of the bracket.
Open awning side allows for addition of optional security bolts
Receiver side now pre-drilled for tapped threads, for added security and rattle prevention.
New design for 2024 - All of the updates from 2022, and more.
Awning side height adjustment to improve door clearance with larger OVS-sized awnings
Introduction of channel design on the rack side, for reduced rattling, additional depth options, and anti-tamper options (see video below)
Compatible with Gamiviti accessory angle brackets, for use with OEM racks.
New Design for 2022
Compatible with multiple roof racks, including extrusion racks & cross bars, tray racks, and all Gamiviti racks.
Compatible with bolt-together extrusion racks using our adapter plates.
Additional mounting option using backing plates on the rack side.
Compatible with multiple awnings, including extrusion slots as wide as 5”
Additional Mounts
Add more rack mounts to the other side or back of your rack, to give you multiple install locations of your awning or shower enclosure. Add more awning mounts to use the same rack mounts to hold multiple items. If you order multiple items, we’ll credit you back the extra shipping calculated as most of this will all fit inside the same $15 box.
Additional Pins
Sometimes we lose things. Or we find an additional use for one of these pins, and want more of them. If that’s you, well you are in luck because yes we stock them, available to ship out any time.
Accessory Angle Bracket and Rack Receiver kits
Order everything you need to add our rack receivers to the slotted OEM side rail of your Toyota or Lexus. Kits come with all hardware necessary to attach the accessory angle brackets to your OEM rail, and attach the rack receivers to the angle brackets. Just add awning…
Backing Plates
Use optional backing plates on the awning side to “sandwich” hollow extrusions, or other items where a simple channel nut is not an option. These backing plates line up with the extrusion spacing of the Fowxing and Batwing awnings, as well as the awning side of our rack receiver brackets, and they’re the same part as the Batwing extension plate sold with our multi brackets. Shown below in use supporting an RLD Ghost Awning 360, use your own hardware custom to your application to sandwich a variety of items between the awning receiver and backing plate.
Additionally, we offer rack-side backing plates for use with rectangular cross bars where you can’t bolt the rack receiver to the cross bar directly. Plates are 4” wide, with 2 holes 3” apart, making them ideal to work around a cross bar that is 2” wide or narrower.
Videos
Gen 2.5 released in 2025
Next Generation Rack Receivers - released in 2024
Adding Set Screws- tip you can use to reduce rattles, increase ride height
Gen 1 design. There have been some updates to the design as seen in the above video, however these other videos show some additional functionality and installation tricks for all designs, so keeping them on the page here for added reference.