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This custom fit kit lets you mount 4 Rhino-Rack 2500 legs to your vehicle with a naked roof. Clamps mount to legs with bolts. Includes 4 clamps and 4 pads.
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Today on our 2017 Toyota Corolla, we're going to be test fitting the Rhino-Rack Square Bar Roof Rack System, consisting of part numbers DS118B. This is the Rhino-Rack Square Bars along with the 2500 Series Roof Rack Legs and part number DK383, and this is the custom fit kit for the Corolla. The Rhino-Rack Square Bar Roof Rack System is great for carrying accessories on your roof while freeing up space for you and your family in your vehicle. While it does have a square bar design, you can purchase bearings 00:00:25 on the etrailer.com website. That will cut down wind noise and drag while you're driving. Both bars combined have a carrying capacity of 165 pounds, although always double check with your vehicle's manual to make sure it can withstand those weights. At the end, we have these two locking caps here.
Once you install it onto your roof, it's going to be secured to your roof as well. Now that we've gone over some of the features of the roof rack, let's go ahead and show you how it installs. We have our rear bar partially assembled on our table here. Our next step is going to be installing our leg here onto the other end. Take our bar, flip it upside down here and this is the track that we're going to slide our leg into. The top of our leg, we have this square plate here and that's what's going to slide into the end.
We'll flip it upside down and loosen up this bolt with our included tool. Then we'll wind it up and slide it in place. Next, we'll measure for space between the end here and our leg. Normally we'd have a strip that we place down here, cut it to length and it would stay there to keep the spacing. However for today's purposes, we'll just measure it out for demonstration. We'll tighten down our screw in the center.
We'll next install our fit kit which consists of the rubber footpad and the clamp. The rubber footpad isn't labeled and has an arrow on it, so make sure you're putting it in the proper placing. It also has these three points, they'll line up with our foot so we'll just push that into place. Next, we'll install our clamp. Start by completely taking out the screw here, insert a clamp and reinsert the screw loosely just to hold the clamp in place. Then we can install our bar onto our roof.
Measure it out with our front bar so you get the proper spread. That's going to be from center of the bar to center of the bar. You'll find this measurement in your instructions. With everything measured out now, we can snug up the clamps up to the vehicle. We'll do this on both sides, and then we'll go back and forth giving about five or six turns each time until the roof rack is completely tied to the vehicle. Something to mention about this tightening tool is you'll see how it's curved. As you're tightening it down, it will straighten out. Once it's completely straightened while you're tightening, you know that it's torqued 00:03:03 to its proper specification. Therefore, you don't over or under tighten. Here's our end caps for our bars, and you just push into place. Finally, we'll install our end cap locks to our legs. Now, we're ready to install our accessories and hit the road. There you have it for the Rhino-Rack Square Bar Roof Rack System on our 2017 Toyota Corolla.
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