So if you watch my main channel you would know that I have gotten a new truck and I
have a lot of plans for this thing like a lift, a roof rack, which we're actually going
to do today.
Now, a roof rack can't hold a lot of weight.
I think the one I'm installing right now, just the OEM one, can hold about a hundred
pounds.
But the reason I want it is because between the roof rack where it mounts right here,
and over here on the side, you can put a light bar.
And if you remember from my old truck, I had a 50 inch light bar that would light up the
entire road right in front of me – almost like it was daylight.
Now, I can't put a 50 inch between the roof rack on this one, but I'm going to save that
for a new video.
This video is just a roof rack installation.
Let's get started.
[Intro]
Now, if I were to have Toyota install this roof rack themselves, the OEM roof rack, it
would cost me like a hundred bucks...a little bit over 100 bucks, and I don't think it's
going to be that hard.
So I don't really want to pay them that extra money when I can just do it myself.
Okay, so inside the box we have these brackets right here, and there is an LH and an RH.
So we have the left hand side and the right hand side, and those are going to be mounted
with these pink bolts right here.
We'll talk about the blue bolts in a second.
And then we have these light blue bolts as well.
They are all kind of color coded with Loctite.
And we have some washers and then another large bolt.
So I've seen a couple of YouTube videos where people take screwdrivers and stuff and try
to get rid of this molding right here because this is what the roof rack bolts into.
There are some pre-drilled holes so it's not super hard.
But I don't think a screwdriver is really necessary.
You don't have to worry about scratching your truck – it just kind of pulls up all by
itself.
There is some tape down here at the bottom.
That looks like it's coming up well enough.
Remember, this truck's only about a couple weeks old so tape really hasn't had a whole
lot of time to sit there and adhere to the truck yet.
And the back weather stripping comes off easy enough as well.
It's got a little bit of adhesive on it, but it looks like that will peel right off.
So installing the rack itself, I have the left hand one right here and there are the
screw holes underneath this rubberish tape.
Now I've seen some conflicting reports on YouTube whether you should remove this or
not.
I'm going to leave it intact and just put little holes where the bolts need to go, but
I'm leaving this rubber tape thing, it's kind of like a seal, so it can compress a little
bit as I'm tightening down the bolts and it can act as kind of a large washer even though
these washers are included.
So now we have all of the washers down, and we have this metal bracket in place.
So this yellow piece is going to go in this hole right here, and this black piece is going
to snap into this circle here.
So I should be able to get it in place.
So the way this roof rack works is there's a little latch right here at the top, and
the whole thing can swing around and clip into the other side on the other part.
So I'm going to take the dark blue, which is actually a t20 bit, and I'm going to put
it in the two little screws that go into the metal brack and bolt it into the front.
And then the longer screws, there are 3 of them, they're going to go inside these metal
circle holes all the way through the back.
And then we're done with the left side.
The last little bit is there is a little bit of adhesive underneath this back part.
Remove that adhesive protection and then tuck it down inside of the weather stripping and
push it in place.
The driver's side is in place and the passenger side is now in place.
The only thing different with the passenger side is that there's one more bolt that goes
onto the swing arm.
So how it works is that that will unsnap on that end, this will unsnap on this end, and
then the swing arms will just go into the opposite holes from where they're at.
You can put skis up here, or in my case, an LED light bar between these two front plastic
mounts.
And there it is installed in my truck.
It took about 30-45 minutes.
Saved me about 100 bucks.
Kind of worth it in my opinion.
Now we can get that LED light bar attached between the two, or put some skis up there.
You know, it's nice to have a usable rack on top of your truck.
Trucks are meant to be useful.
If you have any questions, leave them down in the comments.
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Hope to see you around.