John: Heyis,guys.
John here, with RealTruck.com.
I'm going to show you how to install the Black Armour tailgate mat.
One of the really unique things and really neat things about this tailgate mat from Black
Armour is of course, the fact that it's got this nice diamond plate appearance.
This tailgate mat, half inch thick, made from 100% recycled vulcanized rubber, which means
all them old tires and stuff that you take off your vehicles, guys, don't worry about
them going to the landfills because they get turned into really cool stuff like this that
you can put back on your truck.
This is a pretty simple thing to install on your truck.
Pretty much all you need to do is, and what I would recommend do, if you're going to put
this on some type of permanent way, that you clean your tailgate real good.
Put a good coat of wax on the underside, just to help protect it down the road.
Also, if you notice when you open up your kit, there's no installation material or anything
like that, and the reason for that is because Black Armour designed this so that you can
install it in any manner in which you want to your tailgate.
What we're going to do, which works really well, is we're going to take some self-tapping
screws, and we're going to drill some pilot holes in this.
And then, we're going to attach this with self-tapping screws, which is really going
to hold it on here and keep it in place.
Also, if you use some type of hardware like that, you want to make sure that it's a flathead
of some sort.
So that way, nothing gets caught up on it when you're dragging stuff in and out of your
truck.
First thing we're going to do is...Of course, we already got this in here.
We got it lined up where we want it.
So the next thing we're going to do is start drilling some pilot holes, so that we can
put our screws in to attach this to the tailgate.
Just measure this out, and it's 59 inches.
So that tells me that what we need to do is go 29 and a half would be center.
So we're going to put a mark right here at 29 and a half, because that's where we're
going to put one of our holes for one of our screws. [00:02:03] And then what we're going
to do is we're going to come over here, and we're going to go an inch in on this side,
put one an inch in from here.
Same thing over here.
So we're at 59.
We're coming here to 58.
Put a mark here.
Okay.
So we've got it spread out here for where we're going to put the screws.
But I think what we're going to do is we're just going to go in between these two spots,
as well, just to give us a little more hold ability.
So we're going to put one in here at 43 and three quarters and another one here at 14
and a quarter.
And that'll just kind of divide it up a little bit, so that it's all evened out across.
So we'll take our tape measure off.
Now, just so you guys know, what we're going to do is we're going to do the same thing
across the bottom.
Although across the bottom, we probably won't use as many screws because when the tailgate's
up and it's hanging, all the pressure's going to be on this top.
All the weight's going to hang off the top.
We've got our holes drilled out.
So the next thing we're going to do is we're going to add our screws in that we're going
to be using to hold this down.
The next thing we're going to do is we're going to go ahead and measure down the bottom
side of it here and do the same thing we did up here at the top and get this thing all
done.
So let's get those measured out and done.
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Okay, guys.
There you have it.
That's how quick, simple, and easy it is to install this Black Armour tailgate mat onto
your truck.
And I don't know about you guys, but I think this thing's going to work out really well.
So until next time remember, happy motoring.