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I've been thinking about how to mount a set of yakima bars (round, plastic covered) to my factory sport rack.
I'd like to make it as clean looking as I can, and not buy a set of $100+ mounts just to bolt two bars together.

The simplest thing I can think of is to take a piece of steel flat, bend it around the factory bar and bolt both ends to the yakima bar with a pair of stainless bolts and lock nuts. I could mangle the ends of the bolts to prevent theft.

The addition of a set screw/bolt to the bottom side of the strap (drill and tap the metal) would let me adjust the bars as neccesary.

Any thoughts? Better ideas?

Author:	willo [ Thu Feb 23, 2006 12:19 pm ]
Post subject:	Mounting Yakima bars to factory rack
I've been thinking about how to mount a set of yakima bars (round, plastic covered) to my factory sport rack. I'd like to make it as clean looking as I can, and not buy a set of $100+ mounts just to bolt two bars together. The simplest thing I can think of is to take a piece of steel flat, bend it around the factory bar and bolt both ends to the yakima bar with a pair of stainless bolts and lock nuts. I could mangle the ends of the bolts to prevent theft. The addition of a set screw/bolt to the bottom side of the strap (drill and tap the metal) would let me adjust the bars as neccesary. Any thoughts? Better ideas?

Author:	Jeepjeepster [ Thu Feb 23, 2006 12:38 pm ]
Post subject:	Re: Mounting Yakima bars to factory rack
willo wrote: I've been thinking about how to mount a set of yakima bars (round, plastic covered) to my factory sport rack. I'd like to make it as clean looking as I can, and not buy a set of $100+ mounts just to bolt two bars together. The simplest thing I can think of is to take a piece of steel flat, bend it around the factory bar and bolt both ends to the yakima bar with a pair of stainless bolts and lock nuts. I could mangle the ends of the bolts to prevent theft. The addition of a set screw/bolt to the bottom side of the strap (drill and tap the metal) would let me adjust the bars as neccesary. Any thoughts? Better ideas? I believe there are holes in the factory rails, why not just drill a hole in the bars and bolt to that? Would be hard to drill in those bars though.

Author:	willo [ Thu Feb 23, 2006 2:13 pm ]
Post subject:	Yeah..I think that'll be it in the end.
I took a look at the factory rack at lunch. Looks like the bars wouldn't even clear anyway. I'll probably just bolt through both. I may construct some molded forms to smooth out the connection areas, to reduce wind noise and smooth out the lines.

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