{"id":1050,"date":"2014-07-18T18:34:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T18:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theshanty.us\/?p=1050"},"modified":"2025-08-06T18:43:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T18:43:07","slug":"anchor-points-on-my-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/2014\/07\/18\/anchor-points-on-my-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Anchor points on my car"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

OK, If you don’t know me, then you don’t know that I’m not terribly concerned with appearances and I really don’t give a crap what people think.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have recently started kayaking pretty regularly. In the beginning I put the kayak on my tiny trailer and dragged it behind the car. This was not a terribly good solution. It bounced around a lot. I decided to put anchor points on my car to hold it on the roof instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I started with a soft anchor on the front. I needed somewhere to attach the strap that holds the nose of the kayak pointed straight into the “wind.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I took a length of tie-down webbing and cut a 2′ length. I doubled it over and put a grommet in the open end. This fashioned a loop that I could hook a tie down strap into. An elegant solution if I do say so myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I had originally intended to pull the bolt that holds the hood latch put the grommeted loop in the blot hole with a fender washer and be done. Unfortunately, when I looked under the hood, I found there was no exposed bolt to do that with.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Time to improvise. I drilled a hole. I put it where it would have little chance of interfering with any of the workings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Next came bolt selection. I found the appropriate length bolt a small washer for inside, a large fender washer for outside and a nut.
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I put it all together and done!\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Now when I don’t need the anchor point, I just open the hood, flip it in and close the hood. I also made a spare loop in case the first fails. It’s in the glove box taking up almost no space at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Permanent hard anchor points on the roof were a little more involved. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

First I collected the materials. Some swiveled D-Rings (4), Philips head screws and My favorite permanent adhesive… J-B Weld! Love that stuff.\u00a0I marked out where to drill the holes…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Drilled the holes too small and then forced the screws in to make at least something of a tapping for extra bite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Now my favorite step; I mixed up the J-B Weld and applied it to the back of the D-Ring holders as neatly as possible. I did not want to epoxy the D-Rings so that they can’t move.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Finally I placed the D-Rings on the roof, put the clasps over, put a dab of J-B Weld on the screw holes and screwed them down tight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The rear strap was easy. Just ran it from the handle on the kayak to the safety chain loop on the hitch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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