The Amp Power running boards www.realtruck.com/amp-research... are fully power running boards that retract beneath the underside of your truck and extend outward automatically when your doors are opened. These are completely weatherproof to keep electronic safe. Operators in rain, snow, freezing rain, and monsoons. These boards are tough! Installed on a 2013 Dodge Ram Mega Cab 2500 5.7 liter hemi.
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Hey guys, John here with realtruck.com. Today, we're going to install the Amp Research PowerStep Running Boards onto our Ram project truck. We have everything we need here to get this installed onto our truck. It comes complete with the running boards, our motor linkage, either linkages for both the passenger and driver side, our motors, our controller, our hardware kit, and our wiring harness to wire up the motors and the really cool LED lights that go on the running boards. Let's get this on the truck.
The first thing to do is to install these reinforcement brackets. What you're going to do is come under the truck and look for this spot. There should be one in the front and one in the rear of both. And we're going to take our reinforcement bracket, we'll put it up here to line it up with the factory holes, and then there's a hole in the reinforcement bracket we're going to drill through into the body panel of the truck.
Okay, we've got our hole drilled so the next thing we're going to do is to go ahead and install this and I'm going to show you a neat little trick to keep this in place so that it doesn't drop down in there while we're trying to install it. Now what I did is I just took a small zip strip or you can use like a wire bread tie string, whatever you want to put on there, a zip strip is easy, simple, and what we need to do is to slide this back in here, and that helps to be able to hang onto that so that we don't lose it.
And then we're going to take our rivet tool and we're going to put our rivet in through that hole that we drilled. And we'll take our rivet nuts and we'll go ahead and insert those. I just use a small hammer to tap it into place. And then we have this tool for doing these rivets. It's just basically something like this and what we're going to do is we're going to put that on here and then it screws, just screws into the rivet itself. That tool over to this side and do this one. All right guys, that takes care of the installation on this one.
Now what we're going to do is we're going to go ahead and go to all four corners of our truck where you'll see this same type of cut out situation. We're going to do the same thing to the other three. Now that we've got our rivet nuts in place and everything secure, we got all the other three done. The next thing we need to do is, you can see that bracket that we put in there, that lip that we had our zip tie through, we need to push that back out of the way so that our linkages don't hit it and it doesn't interfere with them.
Okay, I've got that out of the way. So, next thing we're going to do is get ready to start putting our linkages on. We have here our handy dandy little template that comes with our kit and what this is basically for, just follow the instructions on the template. It tells you where and how to bend this to make it fit. And what this is for is to help us with our bolts that we need to put in because on some trucks you need to drill some holes in this bottom lip in order for the linkage to actually fit on it, so I'm going to show you how you would do this.
Go ahead and follow the bend instructions and then line it up on your rivet nuts and you'd go ahead and pull it over around in place, and you can see how when you bend it, it fits to the body of the vehicle. And then on the other side of this there are some markings on here that tell you where to drill the holes. Fortunately for us, we got lucky and this truck already has the holes in the body, pinched lip, so we don't have to drill anything, but I wanted you guys to know how to use this thing in case your truck didn't have these. 866-554-0581 Free shipping for orders over $100!
2 июл 2014
