Boy it was a breeze!!!
Before pic:
First off I ordered the racks from The Toyota Parts People. They had the best shipped price I could find. Better even than ebay. $240 shipped.
Took about a week to show up. The packaging sure as heck could have been a lot better...
A few parts were loose and one of the rails got a bit scratched up...
* Note of interest, it seems some people thought these bars were rated at a max weight of 75lb. They are actually marked 100lb. *
Not bad enough to make an issue out of it though, so off I go...
1st, pull off the rubber guards. Easy enough.
There are two strips of tape near the back of the cab. Make sure that you clean that off.
Next you need to cut the fences off the clips that held the rubber guards in place.
before:
After:
now for the part thats a PITA...
THere are strips of tape covering the pre-drilled bolt holes.
You have to open up the holes. The directions get a little vague here, so here is what I did.
All I used was a hobby knife.
The front 2 holes on both sides you mount a metal bracket to. I decided to take the entire piece of tape off for the front for the most solid contact.
In retrospect, I probly should have just cut the holes like I did for the middle hole and rear holes - less metal on metal less chance for rust.
middle and rear holes I cut Like this:
my batteries crapped out at this point :headbang:
But the rest was super easy.
Bolt on the metal brackets with the spacers and pink loc-tight bolts.
Drop the two rails in place.
Start the 3 bolts with green loc-tight. Then use the bolts with blue loc-tight to attach the rail to the metal bracket at the front.
Swivel the cross bars to ensure they lock correctly and are spaced right(they are tight but thats how you want it
).
Then tighten down the 3 remaining green bolts you had started before and you are good to go!!
Any questions feel free to PM me, but its so easy a Cave-men could do it!:thumbsup:
Once i was done I ran out and grabbed some more AAs.
Before pic:

First off I ordered the racks from The Toyota Parts People. They had the best shipped price I could find. Better even than ebay. $240 shipped.
Took about a week to show up. The packaging sure as heck could have been a lot better...

A few parts were loose and one of the rails got a bit scratched up...

* Note of interest, it seems some people thought these bars were rated at a max weight of 75lb. They are actually marked 100lb. *
Not bad enough to make an issue out of it though, so off I go...
1st, pull off the rubber guards. Easy enough.

There are two strips of tape near the back of the cab. Make sure that you clean that off.

Next you need to cut the fences off the clips that held the rubber guards in place.
before:

After:

now for the part thats a PITA...
THere are strips of tape covering the pre-drilled bolt holes.
You have to open up the holes. The directions get a little vague here, so here is what I did.
All I used was a hobby knife.
The front 2 holes on both sides you mount a metal bracket to. I decided to take the entire piece of tape off for the front for the most solid contact.

In retrospect, I probly should have just cut the holes like I did for the middle hole and rear holes - less metal on metal less chance for rust.
middle and rear holes I cut Like this:

my batteries crapped out at this point :headbang:
But the rest was super easy.
Bolt on the metal brackets with the spacers and pink loc-tight bolts.
Drop the two rails in place.
Start the 3 bolts with green loc-tight. Then use the bolts with blue loc-tight to attach the rail to the metal bracket at the front.
Swivel the cross bars to ensure they lock correctly and are spaced right(they are tight but thats how you want it
Then tighten down the 3 remaining green bolts you had started before and you are good to go!!
Any questions feel free to PM me, but its so easy a Cave-men could do it!:thumbsup:
Once i was done I ran out and grabbed some more AAs.



