Yet Another Pin Box Bike Rack - Many Pictures
Well, there are a lot of pictures at the link. Here are just a couple of the step-by-step build pictures for my pin box hitch mount bike rack (with a pin box cover/shroud). I've o...
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lpxguy wrote:
I didn't have a machine shop to work in...but did have an employee....my 14 yo son.
I was the "employee" but I'm more of a "gopher" ("go for" this, go for that...). Your 14 yo son did more in that one picture than I did with this project!
jaycocamprs wrote:ependydad wrote:
I think the latter may be able to be solved after my recent purchase of SteadyFast stabilizers. Their installation instructions and package included the appropriate size bit for self-tapping screws. It was still beyond my comfort zone and I had my FIL do it. :D
I might used self-tapping screws at the bottom. But not at the top. There wont upward pulling force at the bottom, like there is at the top.
You will like being able to see how bikes ride going down the road, but there isn't much to see. Ours hardly ever moved.
I saw that already. I was pretty impressed. Mine is threaded bolts- we'll see how they hold up. The marketing/sales side of this will likely be on hold. :)
lpxguy wrote:
I had some side to side rocking due to slop between the rack & hitch tube so I got one of these & rocking is gone
My Thule rack has a screw in place of a pin. It takes the slop out of the rack and receiver tube.
