For DIY rack builds, or to fit another rack to your vehicle, we offer the towers separately. These rain gutter towers fit any vehicle equipped with factory rain gutters, including the 40, 55, 60, 70, and 80 series Toyota Land Cruiser.   Holes in top line up with Gamiviti rack plates, as well as the cross bars for many tray racks including Rhino. Smaller holes 1” apart are also provided to mount up to extrusion profiles. Kits come complete with stainless hardware to assemble the towers and secure it to the vehicle.  

Three height options are available, using one of three riser options. 30-60° risers, 45 degree risers, and extended height 45 degree risers.  The name of the two come from the angles used in the top riser- the 45° risers use two 45° angles while the 30-60° risers use one 30° and one 60° angle.  The 30-60° are lower, and extend inward further, compared to the 45° risers.  The 30-60° risers are designed to fit the 60/62 body style, but will also fit the 80 series for those who have removed their factory rack, and desire to have a lower roof rack. The 45° risers are designed to fit the 80 series Land Cruisers that still have their factory rack, also most vans, Jeeps, G-Wagons, and other vehicles equipped with rain gutters.   The height difference is about 1" between the two- 5” from the rain gutter or 6” from the rain gutter.

The extended height 45 degree risers are for FJ40, 43, 45 style hard tops, also high-roof 60 and 70 series. These also work on Land Rover Defenders, and other vehicles where a taller tower is desired- total height about 8” from the rain gutter. Additional height can be achieved on all styles, using the extension plates below, and/or spacer washers between the riser and your roof rack or cross bar. To measure which size works best for your vehicle, an easy way is to lay a board across your roof, then measure the gap between the board and your rain gutter. Be sure to add about 1” to allow space for your rack to flex, and to add accessories.

Most of our 60 and 80 series rain gutter rack packages ship with the lower 30/60 risers, though in some cases we’ll use a combination of 30/60 and 45 degree risers, for example an Expo-down rack on a 60 series where the rack would touch the roof without a slightly taller tower in front. FJ55’s require the 45 degree risers due to the taller arc on the roof. Examples can be seen in the images below, and more information is in the video at the bottom of this page.

International Shipping - for shipments outside the USA, additional cost is required to cover the shipping. Please also add this International Shipping fee to your order. Actual shipping rates may vary, you will receive a refund if the actual shipping amount is less.

Additional tower pieces

Someimes you misplace things. In other cases you may want a different set of risers to optimize the rack height, for example when swapping the same rack between an FJ60 and FZJ80, you may need the rack to sit higher on the 80 series because your factory rack is still installed. Or maybe you bought a used set of these towers, or lost a couple, and just need a few pieces to get back to a full set. Whatever the reason, the answer is yes we do sell just the tower pieces separately.

A single rain gutter tower is made up of 3 separate pieces; the body, the clamp, and the riser. As you see here there are multiple riser options, and all of them fit to the same body and clamp. All of the pieces bolt together using 3/8” hardware, at a 2” hole spacing. You may order any quantity of separate tower pieces using the links below, and for multiple part orders we’ll refund any excess shipping costs.

Additional Height options

For FJ40 owners, high roof 60 owners, Land Rovers, vans, or people who just want a really tall roof rack, we offer a couple of other options to raise the height of your roof rack, relative to your rain gutter.

One is a square extension plate, which allows you to raise the tower riser an additional 2”. This, combined with the 45 degree rain gutter towers, is all you need to insure your rack will clear your roof on an FJ40. Additionally, we offer an extended height 45 degree riser that accomplishes the same thing, and also provides even more options with two sets of slots, for more customizable height adjustment. This also results in a slightly cleaner appearance compared to the extension plates, so you don’t have another set of bolts on the towers to look at. For Land Rovers, it’s required to run both the extended 45 degree riser as well as an extension plate, to provide the needed clearance between the rain gutter and roof.

Extended height 45 degree tower set

This is the complete set of towers, including the tower body, clamp, extended height riser, and hardware to hold them together. These are the same towers used on our FJ40 racks, high roof 60 series, and other applications where the taller height (8” from rain gutter) is desired.

tower riser extension plates

Before we developed the extended height tower risers, we made these extension plates to accomplish the same thing. This is an alternative if you’d like to add height to your current set of rain gutter towers, and don’t want to purchase the extended height risers.

Rack Hardware

We also offer matching hardware to connect your towers to your rack, this is the same stainless steel 3/8-16 hardware used for the towers, using 1” long bolts. Each tower has 2 slotted holes on top, so there are 2 rack bolts per tower. Add this option if you need to piece together the hardware necessary for a Gamiviti rack, or if you have another custom rack that will take 3/8” hardware to connect the towers to the rack. If you order hardware with your towers, the shipping will be refunded. Many more hardware options can be found on the hardware page.

international shipping

For anyone outside the USA, we can ship our towers to you also, however this does come at an additional cost. The button below should cover most of the added charges, and if the actual shipping cost is higher we’ll follow up with the difference.

Cross Bar hardware

If you are using our towers to mount your own cross bars using uni-strut, or mounting our towers to install a Rhino platform rack, then you’ll want to get a channel nut hardware kit to help connect the two. These kits come with 2 3/8” channel nuts per tower, and matching 3/8-16 stainless bolts, washers, and lock washers to secure them. If purchased together with towers, or other Gamiviti products, most likely we can ship these in the same box so any excess shipping costs will be refuned to you.

Other hardware options can be found on the hardware page. And below is a video that reviews all of the various parts and options for these rain gutters, including multiple mounting options for cross bars and racks.