Awning to Canopy Brackets
Tough Touring manufactures 100% Australian made MILD STEEL Bracket Kits specifically designed for Fitting up Poleless wing awnings directly to your existing Steel, Aluminium or Canvas canopies.
The Range of Brackets are listed above. The Kits come Complete with All required Bolts / Hardware to fix the brackets to your canopy... For Canopies with Unistrut Channel - The Brackets bolt straight up, and the Channel Bolts are supplied by us. For the rest of the kits that require drilling and fixing - we provide Highest quality Forch Nutserts to do the job right.
Please note:
Typically 2.5 - 2.7m Long awnings need at least a 1800mm long rack, While shorter awnings like the Ostrich Junior or others under 2.2m can be fitted to racks as short as 1650mm without a front support)
All our Canopy Racks are made in the UP Posistion - adding 180mm of height to your truck . Giving room for canopy doors to open. If your truck canopy has a 'Gull Wing Door" - (ie The hinge for the doors is on the roof of the canopy' Please check your mounting position carefully with the doors open.
Most of our Tough Touring Bracket kits for Canopys and Pipe Bar racks have to be fitted up Using Nutserts or Rivnuts. (Video of a Nutsert tool tutorial here) If you have a Roof rack already mounted to your canopy - You will need to purchase AWNING TO RACK brackets... They are listed on another page in this website - See them Here 'Awning to Roof rack brackets"
Please Note:
We would suggest consulting with your fitter before assuming your chosen tent, awning, rack/canopy will all work together!
DUAL CAB UTES - FRONT FLEXING BRACKET SUPPORT
The majority of dual cab ute Canopies are less than 1650mm Long - and are thus unable to take the load or Length of most types of Pole Less Awnings - (Most are 2.5m - 2.7m Long)
We'd reccomment that You fit any Awning longer than 2.2m onto the canopy at two points , and then fit it to a third Point On the Vehicles CAB using an articulating (flexing) front support bracket . This Front Articulating bracket will stop the front of the awning flopping about. - See "Awning to 3 Point Dual Cab" brackets above. .
Generally speaking - any awning that Folds forward as well as backward is NOT SUITED to a flexing front Ariculating Bracket and as such should not be fitted to any Dual Cab Ute.
We manufacture components for professional fitters. It is impossible for us to assist with Fitting advice all hours. Be curteous and respectful when seeking assistance, and where possible - Hire professional tradesmen for any bracket set that needs nutserting or drilling for fittment.
At Present we support the following Awnings:
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Tough Touring Dual cab Over Cab Roof racks are the perfect mounting platform for Poleless Wing awnings on vehicles that have shorter canopies and cabs.
If Installing these brackets to a Canopy top or Canopy Face, and there is no access to normal nuts and bolts. The kits are supplied with High quality Nutserts (Rivnuts) to allow a solid Capive Nut to be inserted into any sheetmetal surface. For instruction and demonstration of these tools, see the You tube video on this page "Kingchrome Riv Nut driver demo"