Hey guys John here with realtruck.com.
Today I want to show you how to install the Kargo Master Congo Pro roof rack on this 2014
Jeep Wrangler.
Okay guys you can see here we've got everything out of the box for our Congo Pro based roof
rack.
And what that entails is your front and rear hoops that goes over the front of your wind...by
your windshield and on the back by your rear window, all your brackets to attach them and
also your rails that run from the front to the back to hook the two hoops together.
So let's get this on the jeep.
All right guys, so we're ready to put our first piece of our safari rack on the jeep
and what we're going to do is we're going to start with the front hoop that goes a wrap
and around the front windshield and as you can see we've got it laid out here.
And we also have the screws or bolts, they're a torx or a hex head bolt, and we're going
to use those.
And what we have to do then is put them together basically just like any other bolt that you're
going to be putting on your vehicle.
So your split washer or lock washer depends on what you want to call it, will go on first
and just slide that up on there and then take your flat washer and put it on and just go
through and you can see here we've already did all of our other bolts.
Alright, so what we need to do here before we can install our front hoop, is we need
to remove some bolts from our jeep.
And what we're going to do then is take these two right here out, and these two right here
in the front and then those nylon washers are going to go in here behind our hoop and
I'll show you guys how to do that and then we'll put our bolts through.
So what you're going to want to do then is get a buddy to help you with it because that
hoop is kind of big, bulky, and it's just a little bit too heavy to try and hold both
sides up and put it on the front by yourself.
So we're going to get these bolts out of here.
I'm going to get somebody to give me a hand and we'll get that up on here and show you
hot to bolt it up.
Okay so what we're going to do then is go over to the other side and pull the ones off
on the other side and we'll be ready to attach our front hoop.
Alright guys so these little nylon washer, spacer things just so you know where they
go.
When you pull out your old factory bolts you'll notice in there an indent where the bolts
sat in, sort of like the one you can see around this bolt head here.
You're going to set that nylon washer in there and then get a friend to help you put this
up on here and start one side while you get the other side started and I've gone ahead
and done that, got all the bolts started in so we're not to worry about this thing falling
off and damaging our vehicle while we're doing this.
At this point you can go ahead and tighten these up and go over tighten the other side
up and then were ready to go to the back and attach the rear hoop.
Alright guys so we got the front all together.
We're ready to start putting out rear hoop on the back here for our rack.
And one of the things that we're going to do with this particular jeep is because it
still has the factory bumpers on it, the owner wants to keep these on for right now so what
we have then is this no drill mounting plate.
What this is going to allow us to do instead of taking our bracket for the rear hoop and
drilling it into the bumper, which you guys know if you own one of these, these are just
plastic covers, there's no metal, so there's nothing going to hold anything.
You mount this on to the frame right here and then your mounting plate for your back
hoop is going to mount on to this.
Now what this is going to do essentially is there's a bracket in here that holds them,
the bumper.
It's just something to make it a little stronger on the sides and we're going to take the two
bolts out of it where it goes into the frame and that's where this is going to go.
However because of the design of that bracket what we need to do is take our H spacer and
we're going to put it on the bracket in behind here.
So it's going to be on here something like this.
Then we're going to take these bolts that come with our kit and we're going to run these
through.
Because of the design of this we need the longer bolt.
We can't reuse the factory ones and that's going to allow us to set this up so that's
going to sit up here really nice over top of the bumper, allow to actually put our hoop
on.
Now something to keep in mind, before you get this thing all tightened up and down,
you want to make sure that you take your carriage bolts and install them from the bottom of
this up and that way they'll be ready to go.
Otherwise what'll happen is that you'll get this on, you won't be able to get these in.
So let's get this mounted up so we can get this hoop on, show you how cool this thing
is.
So there you go . We've got our mounting brackets installed.
So we're ready at this time then to go ahead and start putting our back hoop together and
get on to the jeep.
So let's get that done.
We've got our neutral brackets mounted up to the back of our jeep so were ready to start
putting our rear hoop together.
Take our legs for our rear hoops and we're going to insert the rubber bushings into them.
Really easy to do, you just get them lined up in to the holes and just push them down
in just like so.
You can see that one's in there really nicely and we'll do the same thing on the other side.
Once you get these lined up and started then they just go right in like just like so.
And then we'll take the bushings and we'll put it in there.
And what that does stops you from running your bolt all the way through the rubber bushings
here.
And there you go.
That's in.
It's just that simple.
Do the other leg and then we're going to attach these to the top of our hoop.
So what we're going to do then is our mounting brackets, we're just going to go ahead and
attach those on here.
Now these we want to leave loose.
I'm going to go ahead and just run that in a little bit.
But we don't want to tighten that up because we may have to take it back off when we put
our bars on at the top.
It just depends because you can see here guys, there's two different holes.
That's a height adjustment just so that we get the right height on it and so I am just
going to run this down to hold it in place for now.
And you'll have to just to hold that for there for now so it doesn't fall off and I am going
to put the one on the other side and then we're going to set this up on the back of
the jeep and check our height.
What we've done then is we've gone ahead and set our rear hoop up on the back of our JK
Jeep here and you can see that the height is just perfect.
Everything is going to work out nicely.
What I would suggest that you guys do is enlist the aide of the same buddy that helped you
with the front hoop because it's a little bit awkward to try and do both sides of this
yourself.
So once we have the stuff on here, the next thing we're going to do is we're going to
put our bolts or our nuts on top of our carriage bolts down here at the bottom with the bracket
to hold this to the back of the jeep.
Now the bolts that we put in for the sides to mount this on, leave those loose still
because we have some top bars that are going to have to go on here and we want to be able
to move this back and forth to get the right length before we tighten everything up.
So let's get this attached and then we'll get to the top bars.
When you go to tighten this up there's a couple of ways you an go about doing this.
As you an see here we have taken our back hoop back off of here.
It's easier to do that because you want to just get in here with a ratchet and tighten
those up.
Since we already know which hole we're mounting it in, it's not a big deal.
Or you could just leave it together and put the whole thing on and get in here with a
wrench but you don't have a lot of room to do that, to turn a wrench.
So we just took it off to simplify things.
Okay so we've got that on there.
We're going to go over and do the other side and then we're going to put our rear hoop
bar back on here and then start attaching our top bars.
Let's get this all done.
All right, so we've got our hoops installed.
Our rear hoop and our front A frame.
The next thing we're going to do is install our rails here, really easy.
You can see how they've got the half circles on them here.
On this end it tips down and you want to make sure if this end's towards the front.
Now you can space these anyway you like as far as the distance in between them goes but
we have a little treat that we're going to be adding to this a little bit later here
and so for that we need to make sure that we space this bar and the one on the other
side, 38 inches apart.
So we're going to get this one on and you don't want to tighten these down.
Really easy to do.
Just take the other side of your half circle, your clamp here and your small hex bolts and
you're just going to start them in here.
Very simple and easily.
Also guys what I would recommend is putting a piece of cardboard over your front windshield
unless you're really confident about not dropping your socket or your tool you're using.
We're not going to tighten any of these up.
We're just going to just snug them here a little bit.
And basically we're not really going to snug them, we're just going to start them.
That'll keep them in place until we get the other side on and get our measurement between
them.
I'm going to put these bottom three in down here and then I am going to go hook the back
one up and then we'll be ready to put the other side on.
We're just going to move our rear hoop back, slide that up inside the half circle, put
our other half circle on just like so and same thing as in the front.
We're going to start these bolts in here.
And that's all we're going to do, is just start these in and then we're going to grab
our other rail and we're going to attach it the same way as we're doing this one and get
our 38 inches in between them for our walk plate that's actually going to go in here.
I've got our measurement set for some accessories that we're going to be adding to this later.
Now we can go ahead and tighten everything up and get everything secured down.
There you go guys that's how quick and easy it is to install the Kargo Master Congo Pro
Roof rack onto your jeep JK.
So remember until next time happy motoring.