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I installed a set of Yakima landing pads (landing pad 7) and control towers with 58" crossbars on my Cmax friday and yesterday (about 6 hours total, probably much less if I had to do it again). A bunch of fully captioned/descriptioned pictures are in an album in my media area, but I'll use the firs...- 15 replies
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From the album: yakima rack install
A closeup of the front crossbar after installation. I marked the center with a mark on tape so I could locate the rear crossbar with respect to it. -
From the album: yakima rack install
Here's an almost finished picure of the installation. You can see that the overhead console and visors are still hanging down because I haven't replaced the headliner yet. -
From the album: yakima rack install
I think this is one of the beam at the front that the visors mount to (you can see the edge of the clip for the free end of the visor). -
From the album: yakima rack install
Here's a picture of one of the nuts that separated from the carrier. If they separate and you have to insert them by hand, this side (with symmetric cutouts) faces down away from the sheet metal. -
From the album: yakima rack install
Here's a picture of one of the nuts that separated from the carrier. If they separate and you have to insert them by hand, this side (with asymmetric cutouts) faces up against the sheet metal. -
From the album: yakima rack install
Another view of the inside roof, showing how there are various ledges a little below the roof that can interfere with the blind nut insertion. -
From the album: yakima rack install
Another view of the inside roof, showing how there are various ledges a little below the roof that can interfere with the blind nut insertion. -
From the album: yakima rack install
A view inside the space between ceiling and headliner from the back. You can see the side curtain airbag on the left, and the big crossbeam that limited the bar spacing running across the roof. -
From the album: yakima rack install
Another view inside the headliner. You can see the rolled up airbag in the foreground, and the handle mounts above it. -
From the album: yakima rack install
This is a view from front to back along the inside edge with the headliner dropped. You can see the side curtain air bag rolled up, and the mounts for the passenger visor (black clips in front) and the passenger roof handles (green clips). Further back you can see the cross beam that's 45" back fro... -
From the album: yakima rack install
In order to clear the rail, I inserted the nuts as seen in the one that's partially inserted and then turned them. A few of them I had to reach in and rotate the nut in the carrier from underneath as I was inserting them. After they're through the roof and rotated in the carrier, I turned them so... -
From the album: yakima rack install
A pair of the blind nuts supplied by yakima. One is installed, and the other is set up for installation-- they insert vertically and then rotate in the carrier. The rails and beams inside the roof can interfere with this insertion, and was the main difficulty I ran into. Two of the nuts came out o... -
From the album: yakima rack install
As recommended in the yakima instructions, I touched up the bare metal with paint. Since it will never be seen I just used a paint pen from the hardware store. -
From the album: yakima rack install
The holes drilled to the final 25/64" and the lathe tool I used for deburring. -
From the album: yakima rack install
This shows the holes marked and punched on the masking tape. I installed the front bar centered 11" back from the rear edge of the windshield glass. There are internal mounts for the overhead handles directly underneath, but the bolt holes for the landing pad go immediately in front of and behind... -
From the album: yakima rack install
All the tools I used for the installation, except for the hammer (used to drive the punch): pencil masking tape measuring tape (I used two- a soft flexible one that's good for measuring along the roof, and a metal retractable one) small flat bladed screwdriver (for removing and flipping various sc...