The Samba Gutter Yakima

This guy has a set of roof racks with a small safari basket installed.

The samba gutter yakima.

Volkswagen vanagon naked roof 1982 loadwarrior roof cargo basket by yakima. Don t pay retail for the towers. This may be the most sensible accessory you can buy for your roof rack. Yakima makes a very popular rocketbox that many serious westy owners install.

This van has a set of yakima roof racks for carrying large items that can span both racks. Nice custom work again. Props to heliodon samba member from berkeley for inspiring my hack particularly the idea of hanging the bed extension from the poptop frame crossbar when climbing up or down. I purchased a piece of 48 x 11 1 2 x 3 4 pine project panel from a local diy store then notched two corners to fit around the poptop hinges painted and upholstered the board and added two u hooks and a.

When painting my 87 60 two years ago we cleaned the gutters thoroughly and then flooded the gutters with por 15. At first they looked like the standard yakima wide body brackets but they extended all the way down to the rain gutters with little rubber protectors on the bottom so much of the rack weight transfer went to the body and not to the fiberglass top. In my opinion it beefs up the look of that side of the van. We offer two and three bar rack systems read more about that here.

Perfect for carrying luggage and other camping accessories. That means there are a lot of used cheap rain gutter towers available. Structuraly it seems to be working great i abuse the gutters changing out wilderness and yakima racks and nothing is coming loose yet. We then topped the roof and gutters with rhino liner.

Vans use rain gutter towers and hardly any other cars do these days. Most importantly though it makes reaching stuff on the roof in my case my rocketbox a snap. The spacious 44 l x 39 w x 6 5 h cargo basket is sized for small and mid sized. 1 pair of crossbars for roof rack 78 long can be cut to suit 1 set of four towers for roof rack locks sold separately see related products below 4 tower brackets for pop top installation 4 end caps three bar kit includes.

Its powder coated a textured black and looks sharp. I did some research and still have interrogation samba community i need experienced advice. When shopping for yakima thule type rack systems it s smart to look first at craigslist or the sports resale used gear shops. Fri jan 25 2008 10 42 am post subject.

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