Video Transcript for DIY Installation for the BAK Revolver X2 Hard Tonneau Cover - 2024 Ford F-150

Hey everyone, it's Joe with etrailer. Today we're doing an overview and an installation of the BAK Revolver X2 tonneau cover on the back of our 2024 Ford F-150. Now for first impressions on this, I think it looks really nice on the back of this F-150. It sits down between the rails here, and it sits pretty flat, and it even matches this trim pieces here. So I think it's gonna be a really solid option for any of the new F-150s. Now one thing we like to address is yes, this is gonna be nice and secure and very durable.

At the end of the day, if someone really wants to get into this to cover, they're gonna be able to. But since it is a nice hard tonneau cover too, it is gonna be a nice deterrent if someone does try and break in. Now one question we tend to get is, what is the difference between the X2 and an X4 Revolver tonneau cover Well, on our X2, it's gonna be black on top, and this aluminum on bottom, whereas X4 is just gonna be a flat black all around. Now another question we get asked a lot on these X2s is, are they ladder rack compatible And yes they are. And you can use ADARAC's ladder rack line.

Since these also leave the stake pocket open, ADARAC has a lot that will fit into those stake pockets. To actually use the cover, all you have to do is let your tailgate down, pull on this cable, you'll hear it click out of place, and then you can roll it back, and that'll release the lock on both sides of the vehicle. And the one question you get asked a lot is, can you roll this halfway back and lock it in place And in our case you cannot, but you can roll it all the way back, and have full access to your truck bed while still having majority of the access to your windshield, so you don't have to worry about it being blocked while you're driving. And then once you have it rolled back, all you have to do is put the strap over the top on both sides, tying it down, and you're good to go ahead, load up and drive off. And once you've unloaded your truck or got done driving around with it, you can just release those straps, roll it down, and then press down on both sides into place.

Now if you're looking for a tunnel cover that is gonna have the look of a vinyl soft roll up, but have the durability of a hard tonic cover, this is gonna be the best option for you in my own personal opinion. And now the installation on this isn't too bad. It is a little time consuming, but I mean if you have free Saturday or Sunday morning, you should have more than enough time to get this done. So to begin our installation, we went ahead, and we put our rails up here just to kind of get an idea of how they we inchesre gonna go in place. And we realized that we're gonna have to put the seal on, because those are gonna overlap the seal.

And to do so, what you'll have to do is take an alcohol wipe, and just go from one side to the other side of your bed rail, making sure it's all completely cleaned and dried off, and then all we'll have to do is peel back this adhesive on the back of it, just take it and go to the closest outside edge farthest away from our cab, and just kind of press down gently, and as we lay it down. And now that we have our bulkhead seal in place, what we'll do next is take our rail, and slide it up on top. And then from there, we'll take one of the clamps from our kit, loosen up just a bit, they're gonna be clamping onto the rail itself. And up here on our rail, you'll see that there'll be some ridges as well. So that's how we're gonna try and get this slotted in place. So what we'll do, take it, and slide up as far as we can go with it. And then I will start to tighten, tighten it up, and as you tighten it up, you can kind of feel when you pull down on a little bit if it's in slot with the ridges. But once we have that in place where we get her tying down a little bit so that it'll hold it. And then you'll wanna put some pressure on top of our rail as we tighten this up. And you don't wanna go too tight, or else, you'll warp the bed. Now whenever you're installing the clamps that go towards the front of the truck and towards the tailgate, you wanna make sure that from the bulkhead to where it's at is gonna be 12 inches or less. And same for the tailgate to the clamp. Now we went ahead and we repeated the same process for these other two clamps. And keep in mind that we're gonna also be repeating this process on the other side of the truck as well. Now with an extra set of hands, you can go ahead and get the to cover up in place, and then we're gonna lay this out, and scoot it back until it locks into place, and then we'll unroll it from there. Now with your tonneau cover latch down, what we'll do then is unroll it, and make sure everything's seating properly as we do that. Here, we'll see as we fold this down, you'll have these tracks here that line up kind of at the end of this rail. So what we wanna do is take one of our hex head bolts that are included in the kit, and slide it in there. And then what we wanna do is we kind of wanna slowly lay it down to where we can line those up properly. And once those are in place, we can go ahead, jump on the inside, and put the hardware on to actually hold it in place. So now underneath our to cover, we'll take one of the rubber washers, then a flat washer, and feed that up onto this bolt here. And then we'll take this knob, and thread it onto the end. And don't worry if your bolt's not coming through all the way. You can actually take and use your handle to pull it through the rest of the way. I have to do the same combination, right and rolling. And we went ahead and we repeated that same process on the other side. Now that everything is down nice and tight, we went ahead and we rolled it up and down a few times to make sure that it was moving smoothly and latching properly, which it was. And we even put up our tailgate to make sure there was no gap, which there wasn't either. And it fits perfectly. Now what we wanna do is we wanna roll up our tonneau cover like we have now, and take our clamp with a strap on it, and we wanna take it and hook it in place there. And also let out as much slack as you can whenever you put this clamp on. It makes it a lot easier when installing it. Now we'll take it and slide it up onto the rail, and you will wanna have this installed in front of the clamp here. And then we'll just tighten it down with the same 9/16th wrench you used earlier. Now you can go ahead and cinch it down, and repeat that process on the other side. Now we're gonna take our bumpers, and we're gonna mock them up. So we're gonna have one up here and one down here. We're just like aiming to have them in slots where it's closest to the glass. So in case this does happen to roll back too far when you're rolling it back, it won't actually damage the glass here. And to do this, all we'll have to do is take, peel off this tape on the backside, and stick it in place. And there are these little grooves you can see. They'll kind of pop down in there whenever you press in on it. Now you can take a look and see what it looks like with everything on the tonneau cover. And you can also notice I did leave a gap in between the bumpers too, just to make sure it covered more area. Now our seals you can tell, are in pretty good shape, but if yours aren't sitting completely flush, what you can do is you can take a hair dryer or a heat gun, and be very gentle with it to get these to sit flush, or you can just leave it outside, and that exposure from the sun will also help them sit flush. But with that said, that'll complete the installation of the BAK Revolver X2 on our 2024 Ford F-150.