{"id":17123,"date":"2013-03-13T22:16:18","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T02:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=17123"},"modified":"2013-03-19T14:51:46","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T18:51:46","slug":"replacement-1up-usa-hitch-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2013\/03\/13\/replacement-1up-usa-hitch-bar\/","title":{"rendered":"Replacement 1UP USA Hitch Bar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/acquired_stuff\/1up_usa_quick-rack\/IMG_7295.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=2\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/d\/103713-2\/IMG_7295.jpg\" height=427 width=640 border=0 title=\"Replacement 1up USA hitch bar, sent to me after the ball started having problems retracting on my old one. After disassembling the rack to fit this one I was able to make the old one work properly again.\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One day after cleaning salt off my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.1upusa.com\/\">1UP USA<\/a> bike rack I found that the ball on it was no longer retracting easily, making it hard to get the rack in and out of my hitch. I emailed 1UP USA asking for a few pointers on disassembling the retention mechanism and fixing it, but instead of that they sent a whole new hitch bar.<\/p>\n<p>This evening I disassembled my rack to replace this piece, but then when cleaning the individual parts I found and was able to fix the problem. There is a plastic cap located in the part of the hitch bar that goes furthest towards the front of the vehicle and appears intended to keep from reaching the ball-moving mechanism. If this gets pushed towards the rear of the vehicle it can settle in behind the ball, preventing it from retracting. This was the problem that I had.<\/p>\n<p>With the rack apart I decided to spend time washing the salt off of it, so now it&#8217;s sitting in the basement drying. I&#8217;ll get some blue marine grease (same as the rack originally used), put it back together, then get back to using it. I really do like the design of this rack. It does a great job of holding bikes in place and it makes it really easy to adjust two bikes to fit nicely while still keeping them centered on the vehicle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One day after cleaning salt off my 1UP USA bike rack I found that the ball on it was no longer retracting easily, making it&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2013\/03\/13\/replacement-1up-usa-hitch-bar\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Replacement 1UP USA Hitch Bar<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,12,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acquired-things","category-automotive","category-cycling","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17123"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17270,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17123\/revisions\/17270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}