The bed rack, roof rack, and storage pros at Leitner Designs have debuted a new ACS ROOF platform rack for the Toyota Land Cruiser 250 and Lexus GX 550. Sharp-eyed attendees at Overland Expo West may have noticed a few exhibitor rigs sporting this new offering from Leitner, but now it’s available for everyone. The Leitner Designs ACS ROOF rack is engineered to the highest standards, thoroughly tested in rugged conditions, and is ready to handle any terrain the rig can cross.
The ACS ROOF platform rack is incredibly engineered, and it’s packed full of details that help it stand out. For starters, it uses the widest load bars available, measuring in at 4 inches wide, and these are attached via Grade 10.9 fasteners mounted in the tensile configuration. Even this small detail makes a huge difference in the overall strength of the rack. In short, tensile configuration involves forces pulling a material apart along its central axis, causing it to elongate. In contrast, shear configuration involves forces acting parallel to the material’s surface, forcing internal layers to slide or twist past one another. This means that every piece of hardware that Leitner Designs used in these racks is providing significantly more strength than the alternative. The load bars also feature two T-slots per bar for tons of mounting options.
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That’s not even close to the end of the lengths the Leitner team has gone to make sure this rack can stand up to the travels expected from the Land Cruiser nameplate. The rack gets its structural integrity from the external frame versus the bars, and that means it’s easy to move the bars to better balance weight or for tricky mounting solutions. The ACS ROOF also includes toothed channels along the external frame to lock the bars in place with Leitner’s custom Torx bolts.
“People waited years for these trucks,” said Leitner Designs Founder and Chief Designer Bernhard Leitner. “They didn’t wait that long to bolt stamped metal to the roof. The ACS ROOF is the only rack that matches the Land Cruiser’s strength and the Lexus’s refinement.”
The ACS ROOF is rated at 1,000 lbs of static capacity, 500 lbs on-road dynamic, and 250 lbs off-road dynamic. Leitner Designs tests all of their gear on a loop that leaves from their shop in Corona, California, and traverses hundreds of miles of off-road. This is how you know you can trust the gear to stand up to life on the trail.
For additional storage, we suggest pairing the GearPOD ROOF with the ACS ROOF. Leitner’s GearPOD lineup has made our Best of Expo Gear list, and they’re some of the most secure, customizable, and easy-to-access roof boxes we’ve come across.
We were excited to check out the early release of this rack at Overland Expo, and we’re excited to see it out on the trails. The ACS ROOF is available for the Toyota Land Cruiser 250 and the Lexus GX 550 for $1,950.
