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Hi everyone, Aiden here at Etrailer. Today we're gonna be taking a look at and showing you how to install these Rhino-Rack RTC-Style Roof Rack Tracks on our 2019 Ford F-150 with a camper shell. The RTC rails are gonna be a custom solution to add a roof rack to your vehicle. Obviously we've got a camper shell today, but a lot of our neighbors really like using this just on the truck bed rails above a tonneau cover. If your tonneau cover sits pretty far in on the bed rails, this could be a really clever solution to add a roof rack above it so you can maybe mount a tent above the tonneau cover and still have your covered locked storage in the bed underneath. Our neighbor today though wants to use his truck to carry kayaks and with a short bed F-150 and a camper shell, he doesn't have a lot of options to get his boat to the water, but this is going to be a really great solution because it gets everything up on top of the camper shell, covered storage stays there underneath, and he can put crossbars up here, spread 'em out pretty far and get a really easy way to mount up his kayaks.
These rails are gonna be 55" long and only about 1/2" tall. The track on top is where you'll mount your roof rack accessories and the towers and there's an opening at the back where you can slide those in or out whenever they're not in use. At the ends, you're gonna get these rubber end caps, which are replaceable if they get damaged, but give this a nice complete look because as the camper shell tapers, this is designed to match that taper and sit nice and low, and give this a more custom fit look. And as for the rails themselves, they're gonna be an aluminum construction so you don't have to worry about rust or corrosion over time with them. The appearance up top is gonna be completely solid.
You won't see any mounting hardware because it's all in a channel underneath the bar, which does give a very nice clean finished look. It does however mean that the install process is a little bit more involved. It's really not too bad, it just means you're gonna have to take a few more measurements and be a bit more precise with marking out your locations to drill. We didn't have any errors with ours. We'll walk you through that process later, but just know that it will be a little bit more involved.
If it is something you're worried about, there are some other options. The RT-Style Roof Tracks from Rhino-Rack are gonna be a little bit simpler in the fact that they rivet into place. It means that you can set the rail up here and once you've determined it's centered and parallel, all you gotta do is rivet it into place, but that's not my preferred method. I do like the hardware that passes through and secures underneath with a hand nut. So for me personally, I'd go with the Yakima kit.
It's gonna be very similar in form and function to this RTC-Style kit from Rhino-Rack, but in that case, it's going to bolt through and the tracks just have spots where when you set this up here and get your positioning, you can mark your drilling locations through it. It takes a lot of the guesswork out of it and I had a lot more confidence when drilling, knowing that it was gonna line up and fit. The one downside there is you'll need an extra set of hands when you do go to fully tighten that kit down. Someone's gotta be up top holding the bolt while you're underneath tightening it up, whereas with this, you could do it with one person on the Rhino-Rack kit. So there's a bit of a trade off there, but the end result is really gonna be the same, either way you go. Underneath this is what the hardware will look like. It's really un-invasive, doesn't stick down very far, and I think it looks just fine, you know, everything's just in a straight line and you could easily remove it if you ever needed to. Like let's say to replace that end cap, you need to just unthread it and pull the rail off real quick, but that process is really easy and whether you go with the Rhino-Rack kit or that Yakima one that I mentioned, the look underneath is gonna be pretty much identical. But as far as that install process goes, there's nothing really left to do, but to show you how to do it, follow along and we'll show you all the measurements we took, how we got it centered and square with our camper shell and how we got it installed. So the first half of this installation is really gonna be just a lot of planning because we're trying to get these rails parallel with one another and centered onto our camper shell. I like to take a little bit mo
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