I had the aluminum in mine.
Did you flatten them out at all to see if that helped?
I had the aluminum in mine.
I just think that pad is grossly over sized. Like I said before. The belt doesnt even touch my body until it starts coming around my side. All the pack weight is pushing on that square pad. I absolutely LOVE the frame but that pad seriously sucks. The wraptech lumbar pad was simply perfect.
-Jim
hammer0419:
If you have no a$$, you need to get the aluminum stays and custom bend them. When I first got my MMR years ago, I discovered that the Kifaru stays are bent for someone with a bulbous a$$. It took me a few hikes to figure it out. This summer, I got a KU pack, and the stays needed an even different bend than the MMR did. I would bet that your problem is not that the lumbar pad is too thick, but that the stays don't work for you. Once you get the stays bent correctly, the Kifaru pack will work as good as a custom-made pack, but you have to take the time to bend the stays.
Regards,
Scott
I just think that pad is grossly over sized. Like I said before. The belt doesnt even touch my body until it starts coming around my side. All the pack weight is pushing on that square pad. I absolutely LOVE the frame but that pad seriously sucks. The wraptech lumbar pad was simply perfect.
-Jim
Can you post a picture of the bend on your aluminum stays? I'm kind of curious what they look like and how they compare to mine.
Are the straps going from the hip belt to the bottom of the pack loose before you tighten up the belt??
I tried several things to try and like it. I had a G1 Long Hunter and liked it beter. Just me, not knocking it and Muleman got a good deal off of here. I have no ass either, but does not seem to matter with my other packs.Did you flatten them out at all to see if that helped?
I'll try to this evening, but you really need to just bend them to work for you. It's tedious, time-consuming work to get the right fit, but when you do, you'll be very glad you spent the time doing so. With my KU, I hiked all summer on training hikes with it, but when I got to MT a few weeks ago, I discovered that the bend wasn't quite right - after a few days of hiking out of base camp with a light load, my shoulder blades started hurting. I discovered that the stay bend was concentrating the load on the very top of the mid-back pads. While chippewawarrior was glassing a horseshoe in the river below, I took the stays out and bent them for a better fit. Problem solved. For us skinny guys, stay bend is absolutely critical!
Scott
If I was to get different stays (Aluminium) and bend them, would I be able to adjust the 100lb weight to a bigger portion of the pad?
Correct me if I am wrong SLim, But aren't those bends going into (toward) your head?