Is there a better alternative to the yakima 1a gutter mount for yakima racks?

[airbats801]

Reason I'm asking is I havent had great luck with them in the past. Hunting over in hells canyon about 10 years back, I ended up losing a rack mount, THe plastic broke in half resulting in my rack beating the crap out of my canopy. I'm running the extended rack, and at the time I had 1 spare, a axe, and a high lift. Hiondsight maybe I should of had 3 sets instead of 2, but eh. I'm still disapointed in them. I'd also like something a little more love profile to get nit down near the roof better.

I kinda doubt it, but I figured I'd ask and see if anyone is making something better that I can adapt to the yakima rack. If not, I will probably go 4 sets on the new build.

 

[billiebob]

so bolting thru the fiberglass canopy roof ???

I use the Yakima Landing Pads, Towers and bars.
At least 20 years old, used the same parts on 4 Wranglers
They work perfect for me

 

[billiebob]

Most vehicles have slight curve to the roof line. With 4 cross bars you may need to shim over the cross bars to get a level plain on the roof.

this ^^^ actually just spacing the pads will set everything level.
on mine I copied the spacing from my YJ but there is more tumblehome to the TJ roof so I had to narrow the rear pad spacing..
note the 2 extra bolts to block the holes drilled in the wrong spot

 

[NatersXJ6]

note the 2 extra bolts to block the holes drilled in the wrong spot

Meh…. I say if you took the time and effort to make holes for them, they aren’t extra! Let people imagine a use!

 

[billiebob]

Meh…. I say if you took the time and effort to make holes for them, they aren’t extra! Let people imagine a use!

I'm thinking Cude LED Reverse Lights.

 

[airbats801]

the rack was originally mounted on a canopy on a 04 ranger. It's not sitting on the ground, but IU was going to use it onm my 1990 montero I deiesel swapped. I have full flat gutters.

 

[Lemsteraak]

We tried using the 1A's on Hummers H1's and had similar problems with breakage. The 1A's are strong but you can't overload them. The best gutter mounted racks I have ever found were Quick-n-Easy towers. Used to be $35 each, dirt cheap and really well made out of a die cast alloy. You can sometimes find them on eBay. The cool part was you could bolt your own crossbars to them, even use a 2x4, or even bolt a basket to them. The owner down in Los Angeles retired, we should have bought the tooling.