New Roof Ornament

[Unholy ST]

Hello,



I picked up a new roof ornament for my truck today and ran into a little issue. There's no good spot on the front of the truck to tie anything to. My '04 had the tow hooks, but this has nothing. I ended up tying it to the block heater plug in, but that's not a good solution when I hit the highway. Anyone have a good solution for this?

 

[FlipTrac_511]

Nice. How'd that plastic chrome hold up where it met with the cable?

 

[William Washington]

Put a Bull Bar or grill guard on the front of your ST then you'll have something to tie on to.

 

[TRACket Paul]

Perhaps some coated clips that hook the lips of the wheel wells.

 

[Todd D]

What alot of people I know do is remove a fender bolt and put some nylon strapping with a D-ring on it , put it back in and use that as a tie down, then you can just tuck them in under the hood when not in use.

I had some pic.s of this somewhere, i,ll see what I can find.



Heres my set up, I use the tow hooks, and wrap the front straps in cotton cloth, where the touch the hood/grill to prevent rubbing, my boat looks a bit longer than yours though.



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Todd

 

[Todd D]

Ok, this is the best pick I can find, but you get the idea of where the under hood/ fender bolt tie downs go.



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Todd

 

[Unholy ST]

That seems like it might be hard on the hood. My trip home from buying the canoe was short, so it didn't wreck the plastichrome, but I need to bring the canoe up north and that's a long trip on the highway. I can't believe there's no good tie downs on the front of the truck.



I had bush bars on the last truck, I was hoping to leave them off this one, the truck is long enough as it is. Ah well, thanks for the suggestions.

 

[Casey Everhart]

hahahaha is that a ford focus wagon?

 

[Todd D]

Ok heres, some more info for you, I understand what your saying about the hood, esspecially on a new truck but lots of people do this with no complaints, or maybe someone else can use this info.



I solicited some info from our canoe web site (www.myccr.com) and got some great info



A couple more pic.s from people

Todd



A site with great instructions