Hey just wanted to poll the group and refresh my memory of broken board racks. I know there has been a lot of discussion on 06 racks breaking, don't recall if anyone with 07 has had any broken racks.
Just got back for spending some time at Gaston, NC and had some trouble loosening up the bolt that secures the rack when in the outboard position, discovered that one of the bolts that secures the rack to the hinge block had broken and the rack was binding due to the weight of the boards not allowing the hand bolt to loosen. Not a problem, I just removed the boards and got a allen wrench and just removed the whole rack. I was lucky that the whole thing didn't break off while under way. I thought that the upgrades that were made 06 to 07 addressed this issue, anyone have any input? I will have to try to extract the bolt that is left in the hinge block (which will probably be tough, the other one that didn't break fought all of the way out I assume due to loctite) and just get another bolt, but I certainly don't want this to happen again.
Gonna make a call to the dealer tomorrow and get some advice and see if they can provide me with the same or similar bolts, wonder if there were any improvements to the grade or strength of the bolts?
Just got back for spending some time at Gaston, NC and had some trouble loosening up the bolt that secures the rack when in the outboard position, discovered that one of the bolts that secures the rack to the hinge block had broken and the rack was binding due to the weight of the boards not allowing the hand bolt to loosen. Not a problem, I just removed the boards and got a allen wrench and just removed the whole rack. I was lucky that the whole thing didn't break off while under way. I thought that the upgrades that were made 06 to 07 addressed this issue, anyone have any input? I will have to try to extract the bolt that is left in the hinge block (which will probably be tough, the other one that didn't break fought all of the way out I assume due to loctite) and just get another bolt, but I certainly don't want this to happen again.
Gonna make a call to the dealer tomorrow and get some advice and see if they can provide me with the same or similar bolts, wonder if there were any improvements to the grade or strength of the bolts?
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