On Tue, 26 Oct 1999 JCMARTIN43_at_aol.com wrote: > Real-To: JCMARTIN43_at_aol.com > > Yak sells a system a little like this, too, and they provide mounting > screws --- think they call them "Plus-nuts" or something like that --- > that work the same way as the system described. (They also provide > thru-bolts if you're able to pull the headliner to secure them form > inside.) Looks like a good system, and seems to distribute the weight > over a pretty long and solid interface with the roof. i'll have to dig up my post about this ;-) but we have several older cars w/raingutters, and our newer one didn't. we bought the artificial raingutters jack is referring to, and took them to a body shop, and had them install these babies... the body shop took out the headliner, and found the strongest part of the roof, and installed these there... all for less than a new rack [but not much!!] now we can put any of our 'yak racks on this car... when we went to the bodyshop to drop the car off, we took another car with the racks on it. we then showed the shop how strong the rack should be, by having me climb up on the rack [on our honda accord]!! they got the idea!! a couple weeks later, when i had our 17' aluminum canoe, and three plastic sea kayaks on the roof, i stopped by and showed them!!! their jaws dropped, but you could grab any boat and shake, and the whole car shook. this was the way to go for us. worth every penny we spent. the set up works by putting bolts through the "gutter" then the body of the car, then through another plate on the inside of the roof. basically it sandwiches the roof between two plates... makes it VERY solid. YMMV mark -- #------canoeist[at]netbox[dot]com----http://www.diac.com/~zen/mark ---- # mark zen o, o__ o_/| o_. po box 474 </ [\/ [_| [_\ ft. lupton, co 80621-0474 (`-/-------/----') (`----|-------\-') #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~ http://www.jacknjillz.com/paddler [index to club websites i administer] Rocky Mtn Sea Kayak Club, Colorado River Flows, Poudre Paddlers The Colorado Paddlers' Resource, Rocky Mtn Canoe Club Trip Page -- Fortune: A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner. - English Proverb *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Oct 26 1999 - 06:31:39 PDT
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