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These crossbars combine the strength of steel with an aerodynamic shape to create a heavy-duty yet quiet roof rack for your vehicle. Full-length bars work with most clamp-on accessories. Installs on your vehicle's naked roof.
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Speaker 1: Today in our 2018 Ford Escape, we're going to be test fitting the Yakima Core bar roof rack system consisting of part numbers, Y00421. These are the core bar cross bars, 50 inches long. We'll also be using part number Y00147. These are the Timberline towers for the Yakima cross bars. Particularly for the factory raised side rails.The Yakima core bar roof rack system is great for carrying a wide variety of accessories on your roof while freeing up space inside your vehicle. You can carry anything from roof baskets to cargo boxes to bike racks.
This rack combines the strength and sturdiness of the Yakima round bars with aerodynamic shape of the jet stream bars. So you're not going to have any need for any ferrings or anything like that because of its shape because it's going to cut down that wind noise and drag that you do experience with the round bars. The downside to that is, you cannot use T-track accessories once these are installed so you're limited to pretty much any accessory that wraps around your actual existing bar.Our end caps are easy to come off and you can see how it wraps around your existing factory side rail with its rubber coated steel strap. Now it is rubber coated to ensure that your factory raised side rails won't get any scratches on it while it's being installed. With our end cap, you do have the option of removing this plastic core and replacing it with a Yakima same key system lock which is sold separately on etrailer.com's website.
Now it's sold separately because not only can you secure this to your factory side rail, but you can buy enough to make it key to life with your accessories for your roof as well.Now I'd like to give you a couple quick measurements. From the center of the roof to the bottom of the bar is going to be about two and a half inches. From the center to the top is going to be about three and a half inches. So that gives you more than enough space in between the bar and the roof to install your accessories. However, I would like to warn you, once this is installed with your accessories, I would not use your sunroof once it's installed.Both bars combined have a carrying capacity of 220 lbs but you always want to double check with your vehicle's manual to make sure your roof can withstand those weights.
Now that we've gone over some of the features of the Yakima core bar roof rack system, let's go ahead and show you how it installs.We have our front bar already installed into our Escape and we have a rear bar partially assembled here on our table. Our next step is we're going to take our tower and our brackets and attach it to the other end of our bar. We'll first take our plastic bracket piece here, push that on the top part. It has a little bit of a snap when you put it in. Next we'll take our metal bracket and slide it onto our bar like so.
We'll flip it upside down to make our install just a little bit easier on us. Then we'll take the screw in the centner here and attach that to our bracket. You want to tighten this down until you here the two or three audible clicks. Then we'll take our end cap and put that on as well.Now we can set our bar into place. In no particular place right now. As you do this, you want to make sure the line on the bottom here is going to be sitting on top of our factory raised side rail. Next I'll measure from center to center making sure not to go below 24 inches. We'll do this on both sides to make sure it's even. Then we'll measure from this point out for our cross bar overhang and make sure that's even as well. With all of our measurements okay, now we can start tightening it down.We'll start by tightening down the bolt in the center here and that's to tighten down our tower to our bar. Now we can wrap our rubber coated steel strap up underneath. You can start tightening this to our factory raised side rail. We'll get it snug on both sides and then we'll completely tighten it down. With that tightened down, our final step is to put our end cap into place and they just push in on both sides and then we can load up our gear and hit the road.There you have it for the Yakima core bar roof rack system on our 2018 Ford Escape.
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