Mount: Yakima 60" HD Tracks for Roof Racks, OverHaul HD, and OutPost HD on a 2023 Nissan Titan XD

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Hi everyone. Aiden here with etrailer. Today we're gonna be taking a look at and showing you how to install these Yakima HD tracks for camper shells or truck beds. This is gonna be an easy way to either add a ladder rack to your truck, or add a roof rack to your camper shell. This is a more custom installation, so drilling will be required, but let's check it out. How you use this track will be dependent on your installation.
If you're installing it on a camper shell like this, it's designed to work with a set of Yakima's landing pads, which will slide into the track and give you attachment points for their skyline towers and some crossbars. Or if you're doing this on the rails of a truck bed, there's some adapters that allow you to attach their ladder rack uprights to this track. I think the more common installation for people is gonna be camper shells like this. But just know that if you are doing it on a truck bed application, or maybe even like a small utility camper, then the HD bars would need that separate installation kit. Each track is gonna be made of aluminum.
It can support 110 pounds on each side. So when paired in conjunction with one another, it's gonna be pretty stout. Just keep in mind, there's gonna be a weight capacity on your camper shell, and whatever bars you put up here will have their own capacity too. So just be careful to not overload them. And you're probably wondering how it installs.
It is a pretty simple setup. It's not like it's hard to drill through the camper shell here. The thing I will say is that it just takes some time. You wanna make sure you get your measurements right because if these bars aren't running parallel to each other, it's gonna mean problems down the road when you try to put crossbars on here. So we'll follow along and show you how we did it.
Just take your time, get the measurements right, and the rest is gonna be pretty straightforward. So let's check it out. At the very beginning of your install is probably gonna be the hardest part, because we need to get these rails up here, and make sure they're square, and just positioned on the camper shell appropriately so that we don't have any weird fitment issues. So a couple of the things that we're gonna do, and keep in mind is you wanna find some sort of center point so that you have a solid place to measure from. So on ours up there, we've got a little piece of painter's tape that we'll check out later that we just marked out the center using that third brake light. That's a great point of reference, because this camper shell isn't necessarily a square on the truck, so using some point on the truck isn't gonna be your best bet. It's gonna be different depending on if you have a different camper shell. So keep that in mind. And then also the taper. This does curve off on the edges, so we can only get it so far to one side before it starts to curve too much. At the same time, though, on the inside of the camper shell, if you look up into the roof line there, there's gonna be this ridge. It might be a little hard to see on camera, but most camper shells are gonna have something like this where this middle is reinforced. And for us, we're trying to operate in a pretty narrow window where that track is sitting to the outside edge of that ridge so we're not drilling through it, but also not so far to the edge that it's falling off the edge of the camper shell. So get that position as close as you can on both, and that's gonna be probably the best fit for you. And up top, here's that painter tape that we laid down with a pen mark on that center line. This is gonna serve as a reference point for us throughout the install. And I do have these tracks loosely set up here. Nothing's really securing them, but I did take a step back earlier and just kind of eyeball it. That's the best you can do right now. Make sure that it's not gonna line up with that ridge underneath. And everything looks good here. The other thing to keep in mind is whether or not your camper shell is tapered. So ours does taper off towards the rear a little bit. So we're gonna start our installation at the back. So we need to drill these holes out, get this loosely mounted, and then we can determine our front mounting locations, get things squared up, all of that. But first I'm gonna lay down painter's tape

[@kyleroe4095]

I have a CX REVO ARE topper for my RAM 1500 like the one shown. The raised area in the middle is actually insulation. That's what my dealer told me.

[@micahengum]

Good video, would've been handy to see how you spaced out your racks to accommodate the necessary spacing for the roof support on the underside. Almost seems like it's best to start your measurements/holes on the underside.

[@etrailer]

Great suggestion! I'll pass that along to our video team....

[@frankjaeger3799]

What could happen if you install your tracks on the reinforment area instead of off the side of it?