Romik RAL-TB Running Boards w/ Custom Install Kit - 5-1/2" Wide - Black - Aluminum

Video Transcript for A Closer Look at the Romik RAL-TS Running Boards

How's it going, neighbors This is Ed here with etrailer.com, and today, we're looking at the Romik RAL, TS, and TB Running boards. These are available in black or silver for a variety of vehicles. Use our fit guide to ensure you're getting the right fit for you. As far as our step, they're all aluminum, and our brackets are steel. This is gonna give you a nice black powder coat on the bottom, and then just your brush aluminum look. You also have the rubberized tread portion here that's gonna give you traction in ice and snow.

As far as the dimensions, you have five and a half inches as far as the width to get your foot on here. Another cool accessory that they offer is actually a bracket cover to give you a more OEM finished look, and hide your brackets. Depending on your fit, you can have the weight capacity between 375 and 450 pounds. Check out our product pages, or your owner's manual to make sure you have the specific capacity. No matter your fit, the boards mount close to your vehicle with a tapered edge for a sleek look, and streamlined style.

Installation is actually pretty straightforward. A little preparation ahead of time, laying everything out, and getting your tools together makes it go on pretty easily. We are actually setting up the brackets using a different running board, but the process is exactly the same, it's just a different style. So we're gonna get our installation started, and we're gonna grab a few different things to get this going pretty smooth. You're gonna need a torque wrench.

You don't necessarily need one fancy like this. If you take a look at etrailer.com, we offer a little bit more, less professional style torque wrenches that'll still get the job done. You're gonna need a few wrenches, well a couple wrenches. It would be handy to have a 15 millimeter, and a 13 millimeter, as well as your ratchet wrench, and you're gonna need a 13 millimeter socket, as well as a 15 millimeter socket. So now we're gonna lay out all of our hardware, and the way that it works on both sides is pretty similar.

You're gonna have three points of contact underneath, and I'm just gonna put together everything that I need for each one of those sections. So you're gonna have both your out exterior bracket, and the bracket that goes against the inside body on the studs, you're gonna have three of your 15 mil- I'm sorry, your 13 millimeter nuts that go on the studs themselves, and then you're gonna connect the lower bracket using your 15 millimeter hardware. So let's go ahead and hop underneath, and get started. So the studs that you're gonna make your connection with your bracket width are right here underneath. You're gonna see that they're in different configurations depending on if they're in the front, middle, or rear. One step that you don't wanna pass up on is actually cleaning the studs off using a M eight dye. You're gonna want to go through to get all the paint and the anti corrosion off so you can get a real grip with the nuts on the studs themselves. Now you wanna make sure that this ridge is pointing away from the vehicle itself, and you can just use 13 millimeter nuts to hand tighten along the studs. Now you don't wanna actually start snugging it down too much yet, 'cause you're gonna want this maneuverability for when you're getting the running board on the brackets. Now, our bracket is adjustable, and that's one of the things that's really cool about this setup. But on the 1500 Ram, you have four possession setups, and you can only go to the third hole. So you would not be able to get that highest level on this particular setup. However, you can go three up, and you can take your hardware, you're gonna use your 15 millimeter bolt and nut. I'm just gonna put 'em both through to kind of stabilize it. And then we're still just hand tightening. We still want it to be nice and loose so we can position our Nerf bar a lot easier. I'm gonna go do the same thing on my other brackets. So as far as our running board, you can see that we have four sets of hardware along the track here, pre-installed. On our 2025 Ram 1500, we're only gonna need three of these sets. So we're going to be able to remove the end cap, and just remove a pair of the nuts and bolts with the washers. So now we're gonna just make sure we get it lined up close as possible to the location, and we're just gonna slide it on top of our brackets. (bar clanking) And now I'm gonna get underneath, and make bar connections with our fasteners. Now it, I know you can't see right in here, but there's two 13 millimeter nuts that we're gonna fasten down, and it's gonna pull down onto the bolt that was pre-installed into our running board. So we get a little tension on here, and I'm just gonna go through, I'm just gonna get everything just snug. And once I get all this tightened down, then I'm gonna go and tighten down my brackets. (wrench clicking) So now that we have our running board attached to our brackets, we're gonna fasten down our actual bracket. So I'm gonna grab myself a ratchet, and a box wrench, and we're gonna fasten this down to get the position that we want. So I'm gonna start in the center, and then just go through and just still going, just snug on everything, because we're gonna go back through with our torque wrench to make sure we get the specified torque spec. (wrench clicking) (machinery beeping) Alright, and now that you have everything torqued down to the recommended foot pounds from the manual, you're completely installed. Again, this is Ed with etrailer.com taking a look at the Romik RAL running boards. Have a great day.