Getting a roof rack off

[HJohnson]

This is an oddball question, but my F-250 has got two of those Yakima brand roof rails on it, held onto tracks across my camper shell with a keyed lock. The PO lost the keys years ago, so Ive never had the keys. Now I want to remove the racks. How can I do that w/o sawzalling the dumb things off?

They look like this, with locksets in the holes there:

Yakima Products - Control Tower

I tried poking around in the keyholes but no dice...apparently there are real tumblers in there, darn the luck.

Any ideas? TIA

 

[Tail_Gunner]

This is an oddball question, but my F-250 has got two of those Yakima brand roof rails on it, held onto tracks across my camper shell with a keyed lock. The PO lost the keys years ago, so Ive never had the keys. Now I want to remove the racks. How can I do that w/o sawzalling the dumb things off?

They look like this, with locksets in the holes there:

Yakima Products - Control Tower

I tried poking around in the keyholes but no dice...apparently there are real tumblers in there, darn the luck.

Any ideas? TIA

You have three possibilites:
1) Try to get some numbers off the locks and contact the company for some replacement keys. Frequently the key tumbler code will be stamped on the lock.
2) Drill the lock cylinders out. (I've had to do that a couple of times when I was working at a RV dealer.)
3) Get out the Sawzall.

 

[jestersv]

If you are not worried aboul destroying the locks just drill the tumbler out use a .25" drill bit and run into it (just don't go all the way through)then the rest of the pins will fall out and it should come right apart it looks as if those locks are removable\replaceable anyway