Date:         Fri, 20 Oct 2000 16:31:39 EDT
Reply-To:     Merrag@AOL.COM
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From:         Raul Cisneros <Merrag@AOL.COM>
Subject:      Re: roof rack brackets on westy top
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In a message dated 10/20/00 1:03:45 PM, jtallino@YAHOO.COM writes:

<< Hi,
Has anyone put brackets on their Westy poptop to
attach thule or yakima type racks?  I have a bracket
on the plastic topper of my truck and would like to
put a similiar one on my westy to carry my kayak and
still be able to put up the top.
TIA
Juli
'84 Westy "Horace"
 >>

Juli,
I have brackets made by Yakima on my Westy pop top. They are small metal 
plates with a small ledge for the rack feet. They bolt on - you gotta drill 
holes through the sides of your top, but they work extremely well, enabling 
you to mount most any brand of GUTTER mount type of roof rack. A metal plate 
on the opposite side of the bracket (bolts sandwich the bracket, Westy top, 
and reinforcing plate) distributes loads so the fiberglass dose not crack at 
the holes.
I have a regular Gutter mount Yakima rack mounted to these brackets, the 
cross bars are about 5 inches above the Westy top. I like it, works.

Raśl Cisneros
Nyack, NY
87 Syncro Westy
86 Syncro GL (FS - $3500.00)