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Old 07-19-21 | 07:57 AM
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Glenn6870
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Bikes: 2022 Giant Revolt Advanced; 2017 Giant Contend SL2 Disc; 1997 Trek Singletrack

Yakima Front Loader

Anyone have the Yakima Front Loader and strip the nut in the Big Red knob? See picture below. I'm dealing with Yakima Customer Support, but like every other bike related company, the back and forth is taking forever due to them being so busy. in the meantime, my exactly one year old rack is useless. Anyone have a work around? I tried finding a wing nut, or threaded knob at Ace Hardware, but none of the sizes ( both Metric and SAE ) seem to work. I'm starting to think the end of the bolt is stripped ( not just the nut in the knob ) causing the problem of not being able to figure out which size should work. My logic is that in its simplicity, it's just a bolt, and you turn a nut to tighten the rack. I'm happy using a wrench while Yakima figures out what they will do for me, but for the life of me i cannot get anything to work. anyone have this issue? And yes, i looked online for the knob, and the only place selling them is Etrailer.com and it looks like the old knob, not the one i need ( assuming my rack was built after 2016, and that Red knob is out of stock everywhere, the knob for racks built prior to 2016 is the one that is available. There was a change in the bolt so they are not interchangeable )

Anyone??!!

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