Well, nothing seems to go as planned, but this one worked out rather nicely. At least, for a plan that should have taken 30 minutes turning into a “finish at sundown” task…
Seems BMW builds some awfully tight tolerances on some of their plastic bits… so I ended up cruising into town to find a dremel. No such animal in Front Royal, hardwar store was closed, so I got some craftsman dremel bits from Kmart and grabbed my DeWalt… let me tell you… trying to get a 12v DeWalt cordless into a 3 inch opening and grind plastic isn’t easy. Nor is running out of juice in both batteries…. maybe I should use it more? I ended up grabbing my favorite pocketknife.. a Winchester that Logan got for me for Christmas… and finishing the job by shaving plastic cut by cut.
After bolting everything up… man, those tolerances were TIGHT… turns out there’s a bit of pretension on everything… my new cargo rack is solid as bloody rock. Hurray!
Well, time for more coffee here. And Bones just started… so I think I’ll watch…