The Samba Gutter Yakima

This handy super simple ladder mounts to the rear jack point on the bottom and to the rain gutter on top.

The samba gutter yakima.

While really old and yellowed plastic might need something like retr0bright to bring back their color you might be able to get by with the petroleum jelly sitting in your cupboard. Fri jan 25 2008 10 42 am post subject. In my opinion it beefs up the look of that side of the van. The spacious 44 l x 39 w x 6 5 h cargo basket is sized for small and mid sized.

This van has a set of yakima roof racks for carrying large items that can span both racks. 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. Its powder coated a textured black and looks sharp.

Yakima or thule artificial rain gutter. When shopping for yakima thule type rack systems it s smart to look first at craigslist or the sports resale used gear shops. Nice custom work again. We then topped the roof and gutters with rhino liner.

We offer two and three bar rack systems read more about that here. Structuraly it seems to be working great i abuse the gutters changing out wilderness and yakima racks and nothing is coming loose yet. Yakima makes a very popular rocketbox that many serious westy owners install. Fwiw i saw some brackets on a swiss westy travelling around alaska this past road trip.

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. I did some research and still have interrogation samba community i need experienced advice. Most importantly though it makes reaching stuff on the roof in my case my rocketbox a snap. Perfect for carrying luggage and other camping accessories.

This may be the most sensible accessory you can buy for your roof rack. Vans use rain gutter towers and hardly any other cars do these days. That means there are a lot of used cheap rain gutter towers available. Don t pay retail for the towers.

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