Hey guys, John here with RealTruck.com.
Today I wanna show you how to install a TruXedo Truck Luggage Expedition Cargo Bag on this
2016 Chevy.
We've got everything laid out on the box here.
You can see what comes with this.
Everything you need to put this on your truck, comes with all your mounting hardware, your
side brackets, your middle and ends of your rails.
Also, we have the straps which I'll show you what those are for.
And of course, the cargo bag itself which is pretty neat with all the pockets in it.
So, let's get this on the truck.
What we're going to do as part of the first thing that we need on this, is to attach our
clamps to our brackets.
Now the way we're going to do that, and this is very important because you're gonna kick
yourself if you don't do this right.
This bracket has got to go up and down like this, in this direction.
And it's gonna mount up here.
So when we put our clamps on, we gotta make sure that we put the one with the threaded
part into the back, and then the one without the threads into the front just like so.
So that way, when we hang this onto our bed rail here, we'll have it the way it's supposed
to go.
Now, you're probably wondering why does it have three different holes in it here.
Well that's so that you can set this at three different heights depending on how high or
low you need to hang it off of the side of the bed rail.
I'm gonna put this one all the way to the top because I want this one to get down lower,
so that way I don't have to worry about it interfering with our clamps for our tonneau
covers.
Once we have these on, then we can put this up in place where we want it.
I'm just gonna slide this right up on here.
Okay, so we've got that one.
I'm not gonna tighten these up just yet in case I need to adjust this.
I'm gonna go ahead and put the other one together and attach it to the other side.
And once I know that I've got this where I want it, then we'll come back and we'll tighten
these up.
So, I'm gonna put the other one together and then I'll show you what to do next.
Okay guys, we have our mounting brackets installed into our truck, so the next thing we wanna
do is to put our rails together that are gonna hold our truck luggage bag into the truck.
So we have the ones here that have the tapered end with the push button on it, and we also
have the one that has the hole on one end.
And what we're gonna do here, is to simply put that together just like so.
And then, these go on the ends just like this.
Now I'm gonna give you guys a little bit of a tip here.
It'll make this a lot easier for you.
Instead of putting these in here right now, and trying to put this in the bag, just leave
these out until you get this right in there.
So that way, you don't have these things flying out all over the floor and dropping all over
the place.
So what we're gonna do with this then, is we're gonna take this and you can see here,
your bag has these loops on it.
And we're going to put this through these loops, just like so.
Now in all honesty, this is probably the thing that's going to take you the most time in
this whole process of putting this in your truck.
Just like that.
And then once it's in, I'm gonna take these two end pieces.
I'll just slide those in there.
Now what these do, these are gonna give you a little bit of adjustment as you can see.
They'll slide out pretty far, so you can actually extend this thing out quite a ways, if you
have a little bit of wider area that you're putting it into.
Or if you have a normal shorter area, you can push them in all the way.
So I'm gonna do the one that goes on the backside of this, and we're gonna get ready to put
this into the truck.
All right, we've got everything set up.
We're ready to put our expedition bag into our truck, but before we do that, you might
have noticed that there was some kind of almost like a bungee cord type of strap with a little
hook on the end of it.
Well, we're gonna have to put these on here because these do have a purpose, and I'll
show you what that is once we get the bag in here.
But the way we're gonna do that is if you look on your brackets, you can see there's
holes on the sides right here, by the slot.
We're gonna put our bungee cord piece through there, and just thread it through there.
And then we have these neat little things that came along with our expedition bag.
And we're gonna put the cord, push that in, and put the cord through it.
And I'll show you once we get the bag in here just exactly why it is that we do this, but
it is an important step in the process.
So I'm gonna make sure that we do that.
I'm gonna go ahead and put the other three on and then we'll be ready to set the bag
into the truck.
So, finally guys.
We're at our point where we're ready to put this up in the truck, which I know is what
you guys have all been waiting for.
And, here we go.
It's really not that tough.
Slide that in like that.
Go to the other side.
Do the same thing on the other side.
And voila!
Just like so.
Because of the way this is designed, you can either center it or you can scoot it all the
way to one side or the other.
Now, I told you I was gonna tell you what these were for.
So we're gonna take this hook, and we're gonna hook it just on there just like that.
Now, those adjusters that we put on there.
What those are gonna do, is they're gonna help keep this thing tight and pulled out
like it's supposed to be.
So, once we hook these in, then we can tighten it up a little bit if need be.
All right, so we've got our straps adjusted so that our expedition bag will stay fully
opened like we need for it to for us.
And we're going to put this center piece in.
Now you can either put this in, or you can leave it out.
It's totally up to you because what this is, is this is just a divider so that you can
divide off your cargo bag here into two separate sections and put stuff on each side.
If you don't want it slipping over to the other side, you can put it in where you can
reach it easy when you're getting right out of the truck.
If you guys have noticed by now, which I'm sure you have, the bottom of this is a pretty
tough material.
It's got something similar to this in the bottom of it.
So if you have something that you're going to put in here that may slide to the side,
and you don't want it to be banging on the side of your expedition bag, then you can
have this piece here, that you can slide right in here like so.
And that gives it a good, solid, hard surface type of box to hold your stuff.
So there you have it guys.
That's how quick and easy it is to install the TruXedo Truck Luggage Expedition Cargo
Bag into your truck.
So remember, until next time.
Happy motoring.