This is a great setup. What is the overall height to the top of the cross bars and to the top of the fatcats? (Is that a 2door w/ Sasquatch?) Will you share some photos of how you attached the tracks? Did you bolt it through the hard top?
No rattle. The connection from the Kuat to the hitch is solid due to the FLATLOCK mechanism which expands from inside the hitch with an Allen wrench. It is literally THE most satisfying hitch connection. You can tighten it hard enough (25 ft/lbs) that it makes a perfect (wobble-free)...
I like your solution! I considered it also. I went with a ski box setup instead because I knew I would break my skis went entering a low garage and I wanted to keep the skis clean.
I know it nearly doubles the cost of what you have but the Kuat Pivot V2 Driver Side Swing
should be in the Ford...