Extremely quiet, aerodynamic crossbars attach to Yakima towers to create a stylish roof rack for your vehicle. Rubber strips in T-slots push down to load carriers or accessories - no need to trim. Full-length aluminum bars maximize carrying capacity.
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The quiet and aerodynamic Yakima JetStream crossbars let you build a custom roof rack for your vehicle. The crossbars require 4 Yakima BaseLine, RidgeLine, SkyLine, or TimberLine towers and a custom fit kit (sold separately) to mount the rack to your roof. Each bar extends past the towers to maximize space for mounting carriers and accessories. SmartFill strips push down for easy loading in the T-slots so there's no need to trim them. The bars are constructed of aluminum so they're durable and won't rust.
Aerodynamic JetFlow Design
The JetStream's asymmetrical JetFlow shape and built-in WindRidge helps to control air flow over and under the bar. This dramatically reduces wind noise and vibration - even at highway speeds - and eliminates the need to add a fairing to your roof rack. The aero-style bar also reduces drag to help maintain fuel efficiency.
Strong, Durable Construction
The JetStream crossbars are made of anodized aluminum with internal JetTruss extrusions. These extrusions strengthen the bars without significantly increasing their weight. Additionally, because the bars are aluminum and have a black powder coat finish, they won't rust or corrode so you can leave them on your roof year-round.
Hassle-Free Installation
Each JetStream crossbar has a bottom channel that allows you to mount it to any of the Yakima StreamLine towers - BaseLine, RidgeLine, SkyLine, or TimberLine. The rubber strip in the channel can be cut down to the exact size needed for installation and then re-installed in the channel. This helps keep dirt out of the bar and reduces wind noise.
Etched measurements along the bottom channel help you center the bar on your roof. Simply use the ruler on each end of the bar to ensure the towers are spaced properly in the channel.
Once you have the correct measurements, install the brackets in the bottom channel, set the bar on top of your towers, and tighten it in place with the torque tool (included with your towers).
Channel-Mounted and Clamp-On Accessories
JetStream crossbars have built-in top channels that allow you to carry channel-mounted accessories on your roof. Simply push down on the rubber SmartFill strips and slide your gear into the channel - no need to remove or cut the strip.
You can also attach most universal, clamp-on accessories and carriers to the bars.
Maximum Cargo Carrying Capacity
The JetStream is a full-length crossbar that extends past your Yakima towers. The increased length gives you more space to mount accessories and carriers to your roof rack.
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Videos are provided as a guide only. Refer to manufacturer installation instructions and specs for complete information.
Speaker 1: Today on our 2018 Ram 1500 we'll be taking a look at and showing you how to install the Yakima Roof Rack System. The Yakima Roof Rack System is a great solution for carrying your vehicle accessories on your roof, whether those are bike racks, ski and snowboard carriers, or kayak carriers. They also pair well with your ladder racks. This is going to consist of the Yakima JetStream Crossbars, part number: Y00427, the baseline towers, part number: Y00146, and the Fit Kit, part number: Y06135. Now keep in mind that our crossbars are also available in silver, with part number: Y00430.The aerodynamic shape of our crossbars is going to help reduce wind noise and drag, along with that weather strip on the inside. This can also be pushed down and we can add in channel-mounted accessories, unlike some other roof racks where you'll actually have to remove your weather strip.
The BaseLine tower of our Yakima crossbars does have the option to put in the same key system lock core. That's going to help prevent theft and tampering of your roof rack system as a whole. You'll also see our Fit Kit here. It's going to consist of our pads, as well as our clamp. Those will be custom cut to fit our vehicle, and have rubber padding on any portion that touches our vehicle to prevent any scratches or abrasions.
The Yakima roof rack system has a 165 pound weight capacity, but you do what to double check your vehicle's owner's manual to make sure your roof can withstand that much weight. It's also going to come with a Limited Lifetime Warranty, and be quick and easy to install. We'll show you how to do that now.Now, we already have our front crossbar installed. We're gonna show you how to install the back bar. We've got half of it together.
Everything on our table is what we will need to install our roof rack system. Here in the back, we're going to have our weather strip that goes underneath our crossbar. This can be cut down and placed in whenever we have our towers in place on the bar. We'll have our endcaps for our towers, as well as the other tower we're going to install, the pieces of our Fit Kit both the clamp and the pad, our tool to tighten everything down and we've provided our own flat tape measure, and we have our adapter pieces that are going to connect our tower to our crossbar, as well as our crossbar endcap.To start off, we can take the pad and place it onto the bottom of our tower. We're just going to squeeze it until it clicks into place.
Now, at the top we're going to place on our adapters. First the plastic, that will click into place. Then for our metal we're going to pull out on the gray door here. We can place the metal adapter in the center, and flip our tower over. We're going to have two bolts. We're going to loosen the one closest to the front of our tower. When we loosen that we can adjust it so that it connects to the metal bracket, and we can tighten it down until our bracket is flush at the top. Once that bracket is flush, we can place it onto our crossbar.Now we can slide this down on our crossbar until we're at the 46-1/4" mark on our bar. Once we have it in place we can tighten down that bolt. Now would be the time to take our weather strip and cut it down and place it into the empty slots to prevent any wind noise or drag. Lastly, before we load this up onto our vehicle, we'll place on our crossbar endcap. We can start off now by taking our crossbar, and we're going to place it on our roof. We'll now measure out our crossbar spread from the front of our front bar, to the front of the back. That's going to be 32". Again, we'll do the same thing to the other side. Next, we'll open up our vehicle doors, then we can open up the gray door here. We'll take our clamp underneath and make sure it secures to our bolts here. Then we can tighten up the bolt at the top and that's going to lower our clamp so that it sits just up against the door frame. Now we can do the same thing to the other side.Now we can tighten down our clamp by using our included tool, then tightening down the bolt that it is attached to. We want to make sure we tighten this down evenly on each side. Once we hear the clicks, that's when we know we have enough torque behind our bolts. We're going to close up the plastic door, then we can take the endcap and click it into place. Now we're ready to load up our accessories and hit the road.And that's going to be our completed look at the Yakima Roof Rack System on our 2018 Ram 1500.
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