Hey, guys.
John here, with Realtruck.com.
Today, we have the TonnoPro LoRoll Tonneau cover that we're going to be
installing on this 2013 Chevy Silverado.
Now that we've got this thing out of the box and laid out here
so we can see what it is that we're working with, we'll go ahead and take a
look at everything this comes with.
Right here, we have our two side rails for the passenger and driver side.
We have our clamps to hold it on.
We have three for each side.
We have, of course, the Tonneau cover.
And also, just in case your truck doesn't have factory or after-market
installed bed-caps, we also have some little paint protector strips that
you can put on there that go underneath this to help stop it from scuffing
up the paint.
If you do have those on your truck, and there's a gap because
sometimes you get that little gap in between the cap and the side of the
bedrail, we also have spacers that you can put in there to keep it from
smashing down hard on the bed-cap and buckling or breaking it.
So we've seen everything that we've got here.
The next step is to get this on this truck.
Now that we've got everything all laid out, into the back of
the truck, what we're going to do is go ahead and start putting our side
rails on.
You just want to bring these up, move them as far towards the
front as you can, kind of keeping it as close to the top of your bed rail
as you can.
Then what I'll usually do is I'll take some sort of clamp,
something like this, anything with smooth . . . without teeth on it
basically, and get up in underneath here and just clamp this down to hold
it in place.
Once you've got your clamp on, you got the rail clamped pretty much in
place where you're going to be locking it down, go ahead and grab your
tailgate.
Just make sure that you have clearance on the back here and that
your tailgate is going to close.
In this instance, you can see that this one doesn't want to lock up.
So that means that we've got it too far back.
So we're going to have to move it a little bit.
All right.
Our clearance looks good.
So we'll go ahead and let the gate back down, and we'll start attaching our clamps.
What we want to do is take a look at our clamp that we're going to put
on and make sure if this clamp, for some reason, slides apart on you, if the
bolt comes out and slides apart, which can happen . . . I've done it.
You probably will too.
Go ahead and slide it back together.
So the way you know you've got it the right way, if you look at this, you
can see that this side is higher than this side.
So just go ahead and make sure that you put the higher side up like
that.
Your bolt head goes through the taller one.
So that way, when you clamp it in underneath your box,
you're clamping it this way.
So let's go ahead now and get this one up on
here.
Usually on your Tonneau covers, you're going to want to be about eight
inches from the end of your rail to your first clamp.
However, because of the design of this truck, we can't really
get eight inches because eight inches is going to be right in here somewhere.
So what you want to do is just go ahead and put your clamp at the first
spot where you can actually slide it into.
So we'll put the clamp up on here.
We'll slide it over as far as we can, which is right about there.
Then we'll just give her a little snug down by hand.
Then we'll go ahead, and we'll do the same thing
all along with our other two clamps.
Okay.
Double check along the top to make sure that we're still even across
the top.
This looks pretty good.
So we'll go ahead, and we'll get a wrench, and we'll tighten these down, pull this clamp
off.
Got the passenger side done.
So now, we're going to go ahead and jump over on the driver's side
and get that one up there.
It attaches just like this side.
So we'll just get her on there.
Now, we've got our rails on.
So let's go ahead and put our cover up on.
First thing we got to do to do that is go ahead and take these tension
plates off.
All right.
So then we have our tension plates removed from our
cover.
The next thing we're going to do . . . If you look at your side . .
. your bed rails, you'll see that there's three cut-out notches in the bed
rail.
What we're going to do is . . . This tab on the end of this tension
plate, we're going to put that into the first hole from the back of the
truck.
We'll do the plate on the other side the same way.
What's going to happen is . . . Just so you guys understand why we're
putting those up there is where we took them off of the cover, when we set
the cover down up on top of here, those bolts will go back through there,
and that's what we're going to tighten up to keep the tension on our cover.
Something I should note for you too is, just so that you know, that if you
have to tighten this or loosen this, depending on weather conditions and
that kind of thing, and you always want to do this when the cover is at
like an outside warm temperature, because at each one of these slots, we'll
create another 3/16-inch of pull on your cover.
So now, we're going to go ahead and take our cover.
We're going to set it up in place.
So we're going to put our cover up on here and make sure we
get our bolts for our tension plates down through the rail.
We'll go ahead and put our washer and a nut back on there.
We don't have to tighten these down just yet.
Just spin them on just to hold it in place while you're
doing the other sides, so that it doesn't fall back off on you.
So then, we'll come over on the other side, and we'll
get it.
Now, we've got everything all set up into place.
Put the nuts on.
We're going to go ahead and tighten those up.
All right, guys.
Everything is tightened up and in place.
So we want to go ahead and roll this out now.
So we'll go ahead and unlatch it here.
Then I'll just grab my stuff on the way out of here
because I'm not coming back.
Okay.
Heard that little click.
That meant that it was locked in.
Then what we want to do is come over to the sides.
Just kind of pull her out and stretch her a little bit.
Just run your hand along it, and that will secure
the velcro down.
Do the same thing on the other side.
I don't know if you guys can hear that little sound that it's
making there, but you'll know if you have the right amount of tension on your
Tonneau because it'll kind of sound like a drum.
I don't know if you guys can hear that, but it kind of
sounds a little bit like a drum.
So that means we've got it pretty darn good.
Keep in mind, guys that this Tonneau cover has been rolled up inside
a box for a while.
So you can see there's some little wrinkles and stuff in
it.
Once this thing gets out and sits in the hot sun for a little bit, that
stuff is all going to come out of there, and she's going to look nice and
smooth and pretty for you.
All right, gang.
There you have it.
That's how easy and simple it is to install this TonnoPro LoRoll Tonneau cover
onto your truck.
With any TonnoPro purchase right now, you get a bunch
of free gifts with it, one of them being this really nice battery-powered
light, called the TonnoTorch.
Just easy on, easy off button.
Comes with velcro stick-on.
So you can put it anywhere you want, if you want it inside
the truck, if you want it in the box, or if you just want it in a closet,
or even a tent if you're going camping and need some extra light.
There you go.
Maybe even a tackle box.
You also get this really awesome tailgate seal.
Really simple to put on.
Just a matter of taking and peel it off.
Cut it to length where you want it around your tailgate.
A really nice kind of thing to help keep some of that
dust and stuff from getting up inside your truck box.
The next thing you have is also the Pro Clean Vinyl Cleaner for
your Tonneau cover.
This stuff works really good, spray it on.
Wipe it off.
Keeps the Tonneau cover looking nice and new.
If you don't want this stuff all over your hands,
nice set or pair of work gloves with some grips on them, so this stuff
don't slide out of your hands and you don't drop it.
Woo, baby.
Flugtag time.