Joan Spinner wrote: > > An update: > I just can't get the Yakama bars not to rotate! I'm very frustrated. Joan, I'm not clear on your total setup, but I have cured the bar rotation problems on my new Yakima racks by the following: Hully rollers rotating on the bar: I contact cemented some wet-or-dry 200 grit sandpaper to the inside of the clamps which attach the roller assemblies to the bar. Bar rotating inside the Q-towers: had Bruno torque down the allen-head screw which fixes the bar to the towers. Bar rotating inside the regular towers (I have both types of towers): had Bruno torque down the hex-head bolt which fixes tower to bar. I decided: "Screw the plastic coating on the bar!" I am using mine on a '96 Toy X-Cab PU with a canopy. The saddles are on the cab (Q Towers) and the rollers are on the canopy. Note: Yakima does not endorse this arrangement, because they are worried about the flexing which the PU bed does relative to the cab. I've driven this arrangement a thousand miles or so on this rig and 10,000 miles or more on a Mazda PU similarly equipped, and have NEVER had any flex problems -- just brain problems like forgetting to attach a strap or lock down a tower! Good luck! -- Dave Kruger Astoria, OR *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sat Aug 14 1999 - 04:39:50 PDT
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