Re: [Paddlewise] rolling Yakama bars

I've also had problems with my Yakima bars rolling.
In general, I've been pretty disgusted with the "hully rollers".
The rollers don't roll very well and they seem to position the kayak such
that it has way to much leverage to torque the main support cross bar.

I haven't contacted Yakima about this yet, I'm about ready to
chuck the hully rollers and just have a couple of sets of
these foam blocks that I can fit on over the basic bar set.
cheaper and less hassle.

The basic bars seem to work ok, and for systems that bridge two
bars (like the storage boxes) the system is fine, but for something that
gives that much lever arm (like the hully rollers), its going to spin the bar.
I'm also thinking about build a kayak trailer so I can carry multiple kayaks
and not hassle with the Yakima bars at all.

This has been more of a problem on the suburban, where the same cam
seems to lock the tower to the stock roof rack side rails as well as
tower to cross bars, and I've taken the bars on and off several times 
depending on whether I want to carry kayaks or have a shorter overall 
height (and not worry about the bars being stolen). I'm probably also
putting more torque on these, since with the overall vehicle height,
I'm more inclined to start at the rear and push the kayak
forward.

I haven't seen the same problems on the saturn wagon bars.
Here, I cranked down the tower to bar clamps once, and the clamp
to the rooftop is a separate adjustment.  I'm also more typically
loading a kayak from the side, and not doing nearly
as much front to back slide adjustment.


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Dave Uebele (daveu_at_sptddog.com)	 Spotted Dog Systems
http://sptddog.com/daveu.html
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