The nut on a roof rack bike mount?

[jdschall]

Where can I find a replacement for the nut on my roof rack bike mount quick release? Like this thing: http://www.performancebike.com/product_images/400/00_1616.jpg

I had one rattle off while driving. The axel is still in place. I just need a nut. Its a weird size (9mm?) that you can't find in a hardware store.

Thanks.

[Toshi]

hmm, find a bigger hardware store? or look through your phonebook for a fastener store that supplies industry?

[jdschall]

9mm is a weird size it seems. Everything I find is in even sizes 6, 8, 10mm etc.

[binary visions]

Just do the same thing that I do, for nuts on my roof rack:

Tell them to quit fooling around and go home, before you call the police.

[jdschall]

I'm just glad that only one of them rattled off. I still have one to screw around with. (and the thread degenerates...)

I just found Part number: 8820114 UNIV,LKG SKWR,ADJ KNOB on Yakima's website and emailed them asking them if I can get one from them. Damn things cost $5. :mumble: They should have a better retention mechanism for that price.

[merrrrjig]

if your talking about the end peice you should be able to use one off of your quick release

[caputo1989]

Your Lbs might have one.
mine does

[DßR]

it's just the standard nut off the end of a normal quick-release skewer. You should probably have one lying around in the garage, if not, ANY lbs should have one.

[jdschall]

No its not even close... The nut that threads on to the quick release skewer 5mm and goes through the 9mm hollow axle. The axle on a bike tight or similar is not hollow and doesn't use a standard QR skewer. If I took a hub apart and used one of the nuts that holds the bearings in place, that would work but that is a pretty small nut to hold my bike on the roof while driving at 70 mph... I suppose I could dismantle an entire hub, remove the bearing cups and shove the old hollow axle through the housing and then use the standard quick release but that seems like a waste of an old hub. Hmmm maybe I'll try it anyway.

[DßR]

oh sorry, I see what you're talking about. On my Yakima rack it uses a 9mm axle with a normal quick-release skewer thru it; so the nut is off a "real" QR. Yours I guess is different. That Yakima part number may or may not be the right thing though, since my Yak racks use a "normal" nut...

[BikeGeek]

Call Yak, tell 'em what you need, they send it (sometimes at no charge). Easy enough.

It seriously rattled off? With a bike on it? I've never heard of that happening.

[BikeGeek]

oh sorry, I see what you're talking about. On my Yakima rack it uses a 9mm axle with a normal quick-release skewer thru it; so the nut is off a "real" QR. Yours I guess is different. That Yakima part number may or may not be the right thing though, since my Yak racks use a "normal" nut...

How old (or new) are yours? I have the kind jdschall has but I think I'd be worried with only a standard QR skewer. Then again, i guess that's why forks have those safety tabs.

[jdschall]

Thanks y'all. I actually thought to email performance where I got the thing and they're going to pop one in the mail to me.

Any suggestions to keep this one on there longer?

[DßR]

How old (or new) are yours? I have the kind jdschall has but I think I'd be worried with only a standard QR skewer. Then again, i guess that's why forks have those safety tabs.

ahem....circa 1992 :o: Yeah, they're O.G. but they still work fine; I guess they've done some modernizing over the many years since then...

Any suggestions to keep this one on there longer?
Just keep it "closed" tight when not in use; I lost one of mine b/c it was left "open", but the nut rolled thru the sunroof and fell in my lap, no big deal. Now I tighten it down and close it, hasn't happened again.

[Repack]

It is something that you LBS should have. I know that the shop I worked for had a large supply of spare rack parts. It might even be a standard 9mm axle nut, which your LBS shouls also have.

Or another idea. Just order the Rocky Mount locking skewers. They are about $15.

[joelsman]

the yakima locking skewers have an E clip to keep it from backing off or some one backing the nut off to steel your bike, the e clip is in a recessed part of the nut(nut must be all the way in to access e clip, so it can't be removed.