TracRac IM TracRac - Manual (Page 7)

TracRac INSTRUCTION MANUAL 7 TracRac Inc. 994 Jefferson Street, Fall River, MA 02721-4893 • 508-677-4130
BASE RAIL INSTALLATION:
Trucks with bedliners “Over the Rail”
Make sure that the bedliner is straight and in proper posi-
tion before drilling any holes!
TracRac works with over the rail bedliners – and even helps
prevent the bedliner from slipping or shifting. Unless your
bedliner comes with removable pocket tabs, you’ll be drill-
ing holes through the bedliner to secure the base rails into
the stake pockets. The base rails themselves will rest on
top of the bedliner.
1. Verify that you have received the correct parts, and that
the base rails correspond to your pickup truck make,
model, and year.
2. Locate the correct hole pattern in the base rails for your
truck by referring to the enclosed base rail layout draw-
ing. Note: Labels at the end of each base rail identify the
front and side of the truck the rails must be placed on.
3. Use the plastic access plugs to cover the holes that do
not correspond to your truck.
4. Place the base rails on the side rails of your truck in
accordance with the layout drawing. If the bedliner
flange is flat and in plane, you can mount the base rails
directly onto the truck without using the plastic shim.
BASE RAIL INSTALLATION:
For trucks without stake pockets
You’ll be attaching the base rails to the side rails of the truck
the old-fashioned way – by drilling 4 – 6 holes and bolting
the rails in position.
C-clamp base rails onto the truck - making sure the rails
are in correct position for drilling. Rails must remain paral-
lel within 1/16”. Use the holes specified for your truck and
mark each center.
Drill 13/32” diameter holes at each marked point and fasten
in place with the 3/8-16 x 3” socket head cap screws, the
plastic washers, the 1/8” thick rubber spacers, and brass
pocket nuts.
Otherwise, position the shim on the top of the bedliner
to ensure that the base rails remain flat and parallel (the
thick side of the shim should face outwards) and/or use
the supplied rubber tape as a shim to correct the angle of
the base rails.
5. Starting with the front two stake pockets (closest to
the cab on the left and right), locate the center of each
stake pocket and drill a 3/8” hole through the bedliner.
Temporarily place the 3/8-16 x 3” socket head cap screws
into the correct front hole on the base rails and into bed-
liner holes just drilled. Adjust the rear end of the base
rails until the rails are parallel. Measure the width from
rail to rail using the T-Tracks of each base rail at the same
location front and rear. Measurements are to be equal
within 1/16”. C-clamp the baserails in place. Now using
the baserail’s rear hole as a template, drill a 3/8” diam-
eter hole in the center of each rear stake pocket.
6. Unbolt the bedliner, and lift it up to gain access to the
stake pockets. We suggest you place a small wooden
block (2” x 4” x 4”) in between the bedliner flange and
the side rail of the truck. This will permit you to access
the stake pocket.
7. Slide one plastic washer onto each 3/8-16 x 3” socket
head cap screw. Insert the cap screws into the holes of
the base rail, through the plastic shim (again, only use
shim if needed), through the bedliner, through the rubber
expansion block and into brass nut.
Tip: Tape or glue the brass pocket nuts to the rubber expan-
sion blocks before inserting them into the stake pock-
ets of the truck. This will stop the nuts from dropping
into the stake pockets if you ever need to loosen and
remove the rails.
8. Hand tighten the brass pocket nuts just enough to hold
the rubber expansion blocks in place against the plastic
shim or bedliner (without compressing the rubber block).
Remove the wooden blocks, and insert the entire assem-
bly into the stake pockets.
9. Continue with steps 6 through 10 of the Base Rail
Installation Instructions (page 6): Trucks without
Bedliners.