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Chris
| | Posted on Monday, September 09, 2002 - 10:40 pm: | 
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I just got home with my adventure rack on my DII and found that despite my best efforts the second clip from the front on the passenger side scrapes the passenger door. I bent the clip about a hundred different ways to make it fit as tight as possible up into the rain gutter but the door still scraped it. I finally got out my Dremel and ground about 2 millimeters off the bottom of the clip. Now the door clears it as long as there is no weight on the rack. When I get on top of it with all of my 195lb's. I had my wife open and close the door and it just touches. Has anyone else experienced this? It looks like my rain gutter actually dips down right over the passenger door? |
michael burt (Mikeyb)
| | Posted on Monday, September 09, 2002 - 11:20 pm: |
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i just checked mine in the garage and my lrna full rack on my '01 SII has almost a centimeter of clearance...that is quite a difference. |
Steve Andrews (Sillybus)
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 10, 2002 - 12:26 am: |
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Could you beat the rain gutter back up in place with a rubber mallet? It sounds as if you've had too much weight up there or your rack took an impact of some kind. |
M. Recke (Disco_Obsession)
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 10, 2002 - 07:32 am: |
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Chris, You may have to insert a brace into the gutter to spread the load over the whole gutter instead of just the mounting points.
I recently was told of a horror story about a overladen roofrack collapsing and damaging the roof.
Idealy a piece of galvanised "U" shaped channel would be ideal and the roof rack legs sit in this .
Hope this helps |
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