On Dec 5, 2012, at 2:04 PM, Jarrett Anthony Kupcinski <kupcinski@GMAIL.COM> wrote:

I'm not going to give up my Gary Lee hatch rack, but I'm sure your setup is waaay lighter than mine. Plus, it would be a great when I need to throw a bike on the back quickly for local trips, as the big rack doesn't normally live on the van. I think I've got an old set of towers around here somewhere...

I did that same thing with my Yakima roof mount rack about 7-8 years ago, before the current Gary Lee.
I just took the towers apart, used a hammer to flatten the gutter "hook", cut 3/4" off of it, put a 90 degree
bend in the end of that and reassembled.

That made the rubber foot of the tower, rest directly next to the hatch edge, and not on the window.
It is very robust as the hatch is pyramid-shaped, and when you start putting bikes on it, they pull
downward, tightening the grip of the tower onto the hatch. I had 4 bikes on that arrangement a 
few times.

bob