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Pro Traxx 4-Inch Oval Side Step Bars; Black (09-18 RAM 1500 Quad Cab, Crew Cab)
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Video Review & Installation
await at and installing the Westin Pro Traxx 4 side step bars, bachelor for the '09 to 'xviii Ram 1500s, both quad cab and crew cab models. Now, if you lot're the truck owner looking for a safety and secure way for yous and your family unit and your other passengers to hop in and out of your truck, especially in wintery or moisture weather condition weather condition, this is a great way to go.At present, equally far as side steps are concerned, at that place are a number of different designs and styles throughout the category, running from traditional side steps to advanced or more stylish side steps, running confined, nerf boards, drop steps, ability steps, a ton of dissimilar kinds in the category. Merely if you're looking to go along your budget downwards or if y'all're working on a tight budget and you like the look of a traditional side pace like the 1 you run into here, this is a good way to become. It's got a 4-inch steel tubular design with aptitude ends and domed caps. What that means is a tubular steel, then it is hollow on the inside, but it is steel as opposed to aluminum, so it is a niggling bit more durable than some of the others on the marketplace. Information technology'southward got a black pulverisation-coated terminate, which looks really skilful. Information technology keeps that stealthy blueprint and helps it alloy in more. The bent ends but means it curves in toward the cease, and the domed cap means that it is rounded off at the top equally opposed to cut flat, or really, merely opened upwards like some of the other ones. Doesn't take a cap on the ends, which I call up I similar a little scrap more, only because it just has that completed look. That capped-off dome design is a sleek finish, and over again, a more than traditional 1 at that, traditional being that a side step in this detail design is one of the almost original ones in the category, correct. It's been effectually the longest. You see information technology from the factory on a lot of truck models, and yous see it most unremarkably in the aftermarket world.A side step like this 1, as opposed to, say, a running lath design, would actually drop down past the rocker panel like this one does, leaving a negative space. A running board would really connect to the rocker panel and not have any space between it. Information technology would just drop down and be 1 complete stride, as opposed to having two individual ones. Now, some guys like the one consummate step in a running board, just again, if you're leaning more toward the traditional step that looks like it could have come on your Ram from the mill, this 1's the fashion to go. It's got two individual steps, one underneath of each of your doors. This is a blackness polymer finish, and as you tin can see, it's got non necessarily a tire tread-like blueprint on information technology, I'd say more than similar a sneaker sole-type tread that gives you that grip in all weather condition conditions. It's a really durable stepping pad. It won't crack or fade over fourth dimension, and because it has that matte textured blackness terminate, it is going to give you more than traction than about. Of form, it's got the Westin logo embedded right on top at that place. That is a very common thing for aftermarket brands, making sure they got their labeling there.But there is one matter that makes this particular side steps footstep out from the residual of the crowd. It'south got these cease caps that get right on top of the brackets. At present, to concur your side step on, there are three brackets as you tin see, right along the edge, and these actually cover up that subclass. Since at that place is that negative infinite, you would otherwise encounter this if the bracket cover was non there. That embrace gives it but a little bit amend aesthetic than some of the other ones in the category. You'd otherwise see that bracket, which really just isn't that attractive, information technology looks like you tin see all the hardware and nuts and bolts holding this on, but these textured black covers just give it a piffling scrap more style and cover up things that yous don't actually want to run across. To me, it almost is relatable to under hood dress-upwardly pieces. You lot know, in that location'southward some of those end caps on your strut towers that people install just to make it look a piddling flake nicer, so you can't see all the hardware. Same design or same thought process is applied here. It's covering upward that hardware bracket. It'southward as well got the Westin proper noun embedded in that besides but to give information technology a little more pop and style. Once more, Westin took the design a petty bit further to requite you something that simply looks a little flake better than some of the more traditional or budget-friendly options, but this one does proceed the cost downward right around 220 bucks. You can become this for your quad cab or crew cab.The install'due south going to get one out of three wrenches on our difficulty meter. That'southward an absolute no-brainer, right. Side steps are completely bolt-on installs, only I will say this. In that location are very few models out there for the Ram in this generation that practice not have pre-welded holes on your pinch weld. If that is the case in your particular pattern, you will have to drill two holes, two ane/four-inch holes, on the compression weld that you lot admittedly will non see in one case this is installed. In my personal opinion, that is not a big bargain whatsoever. 1 thing I would recommend. When yous're drilling, mensurate twice, cut once, right. Brand sure you're getting the right spot before y'all exercise the drilling, and number 2, after you practise the drilling, throw a little fleck of paint on top only to brand certain it doesn't rust or corrode through. That's about it. Unproblematic hand tools will get the job done. Y'all tin can tackle it in almost an hour or less. And I'm going to testify you guys step-by-step how it'southward done, and then permit'south get to it.Tools used in this install include an bear on gun, a 1/4-inch ratchet, 10-millimeter short socket, 13-millimeter, and xvi-millimeter deep sockets, a T40 Torx socket, 10-millimeter wrench. Well, guys, the first step of the installation is to make certain you're picking out the commuter side and the passenger side brackets. They are slightly different. The driver side front end bracket underneath of your Ram 1500 emblem is going to exist the just one that is completely different-looking than the other ones included in the kit. We're going to start with this. The commuter side install is going to be the verbal same on the passenger side, and then because of that, we're only going to show you the commuter's side here because information technology's actually only repeating the same procedure for both sides.Now, with this unique bracket, nosotros're going to go underneath of the front end here and install information technology using the hardware yous meet right below me. If your Ram from the factory has threaded holes in your rocker panel, you could merely employ the commodities direct into the rocker panel. If your holes are just opened upward and not threaded, and so you're going to need to utilize the rivserts, and so they're chosen from Westin in the kit. Basically, they'll insert into the pigsty and give you a thread pitch for the commodities to go through. I'll show you guys that in just a second because our 2014 Ram does not have threaded holes, so we will exist using those actress hardware. So, I'll show you guys that in just a 2d. Right now, nosotros're going to grab this unique subclass that's going to hug the inside of the rocker panel and the compression weld. We'll apply that hardware to commodities it down. I've got a creeper on deck because nosotros are working on the basis, makes it a fiddling easier to slide around. So, what do you say we head underneath?All right, guys. This is about where the front bracket is going to install. We're going to install into these open holes and these two on our pinch weld. If your pinch weld does not take these two pre-drilled holes, you lot're going to need to drill 1/4-inch holes right here underneath of these two larger hex holes. Because these are not threaded on our rocker panel from the factory, we're going to use these rivserts. At present, as you can see, they'll only fit in i way. Line those upwardly and only push them in. Nosotros're going to do both of them. From hither, y'all're going to just grab your bracket, line those holes up. You could use the hardware included in the kit, along with flat and lock washers to just thread those into the rivserts. This is one of those things that y'all don't want to tighten down simply yet. Just go overnice and snug by hand at get-go, only until nosotros get everything lined up.At this point, we tin can grab the smaller black bolts, forth with the flat washers, and go through the holes in our pinch weld, and apply the basics provided in the kit to tighten those down. You lot're at a bit of an awkward angle, but if you lot put the commodities head through the front going inside and but pull it back slightly, you'll be able to get that nut on. And then, these are 10-mills, so yous'll grab your 10-millimeter socket and wrench and tighten them downwardly. Perfect. This is exactly where nosotros want it to be, so grab your 10-millimeter socket and wrench and tighten the lesser ones downwardly, and then grab your xiii and tighten the top i. Bang-up. Got that nice and tight. At present information technology'southward fourth dimension to movement on to the side by side driver side bracket in the heart of our rocker panel.All right. Now that we're at the eye of our rocker console, we're going to use our commodities plate. Now, as you can come across, this one's got a welded-on bolt on one side and welded-on nut on the other. The nut is going to line up with this hex hole right here, and the stud is going to come through the larger hole. What we're going to do is feed this in toward that open up hole. Information technology'll get down, but rotate information technology until information technology slides into identify. Now, with this on, we tin can grab this plastic cover to pop over the stud. That'due south going to go on information technology from falling into the rocker panel. It's a lilliputian tough to get on. Since it'southward a threaded commodities, yous can always just spin information technology all the way back. That'll go along that from falling in.Next step here is to catch ane of those rivserts and put information technology into the left side. Then now, nosotros accept the welded-on bolt on the plate on the correct and the rivsert on the left. Catch your subclass, slide this over the stud, line up those holes, grab the hardware included in the kit with flat and lock washer, become to that welded-on nut, making sure that it is lined up properly. You might take to rotate the stud merely to get information technology to line up. Same as before, just tighten it down by hand. Grab the other 1 and do the aforementioned thing to the rivsert. At present we can grab the hardware for the stud and tighten that down likewise.All correct. Adjacent upwardly, flat washer, foot washer, and a commodities would go over acme. Now, for the bottom two, that's going to be a 13 socket, and the top is going to be a 16. Perfect. Now we can movement on to the third and terminal bracket for the driver side. All right, once again hither for the third one, it'due south going to exist the verbal same affair every bit the last. We're going to use that nut plate to line up to the top and bottom. Apply that plastic square cut-out to brand sure that doesn't autumn in. Once that'south in place, the rivsert is going to go next, and then finally the subclass. Now once yous got everything tightened downwards by paw, grab those sockets again and tighten them down.All right. The adjacent step here is actually to install our Westin caps. At present, these are basically just going to cap off the excess subclass bar that you would otherwise see through the outside of the side step looking in. Now, that's non actually the best appearance, and so Westin contributed these caps to make it look a footling fleck more aggressive. And so, nosotros're going to install these bolts through the open holes here. At present, you're basically going to put 1 washer on each side. So grab your nylon lock nut. Tighten down on the other side past hand.Now, because these are pretty tight spaces, you might want to grab a pocket-size ratchet and a curt socket, as well as a wrench, tighten these downwards. Information technology'due south as well a good idea to use a ratchet merely because these are ABS plastic. So, if you were to gun them on a little too hard, y'all could crack the plastic, or you could just kind of shred that to small pieces, honestly. This is a proficient way to become a little scrap slower, and once you get it dainty and snug, you'll know it's time to stop, move on to the side by side ane. Perfect. Now permit's motion on to the side by side bracket. All right. Move on to the next one.So, now nosotros can grab our side pace for the driver side. They are side-specific, so make sure you're grabbing the right one. And as yous can see, those open threaded holes on the back side of the side step, those are going to become onto the cupped portion of the brackets we only installed, right in front of that plastic embrace. At present, we've got these T40 hex bolts along with a lock washer and flat washer specific to the Torx bit correct on top of that commodities, so nosotros're going to thread those on, but start, let'southward lay it into place gently. Make sure you lot're lining upwardly those holes to the brackets when you're laying it in place. Now, it will want to sideslip off, so you want to hold that in place and thread one of these downward.All correct, at present the key to holding this in place and having it aligned exactly where you desire it to exist is to thread all of the bolts down before you tighten them with an impact gun or with a ratchet. So, nosotros're going to go through each subclass, hand-tighten them, getting them nice and snug similar I just did, lining the side steps up wherever you want information technology to be, making sure information technology'due south apartment and exactly in the position that we need, and then we'll come back with our touch on gun and T40 Torx chip and tighten them all downwardly. So, past hand offset. All right. Now nosotros can go practise the tertiary ane, same equally that affair, and then tighten them all down. Grab your T40 Torx fleck and your impact gun or your ratchet, and tighten downwardly all half dozen of these torque bolts. All right. One time that'due south tightened down, repeat this verbal process for the other side, and y'all're good to go.Well, guys, that'due south going to wrap up my review and install of the Westin Pro Traxx 4 side step bars available for the '09 to 'eighteen Ram 1500s with a quad or crew cab trim. You should exist checking this out if y'all're looking for a budget-friendly traditional-style side step that'll get you safely and securely in and out of your Ram 1500, both you and your passengers. You tin can become this detail stride correct hither at americantrucks.com.
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Production Information
Features, Clarification, Reviews, Q&A, Specs & Installation
Features
- Side Step Confined
- Steel Tubing
- 4" Oval Design
- Welded Domed Ends
- Blackness Polymer Stride Pad
- Excelling Gripping, No Slipping
- Easy Commodities-on Installation
- All Hardware Included
- No Drilling or Cutting Required
- Lifetime Warranty
- Fits 2009-2018 Dodge RAM 1500 Quad Cab and Crew Cab Models
Description
Form and Function. Emphasis your 09-18 RAM 1500 Quad or Crew Cab with this pair of Pro Traxx 4 in. Oval Side Pace Bars – Black. These side step bars are made from potent materials for lasting performance, and they have broad nonslip pace pads that make getting into your truck easier. The welded, domed ends add together a clean appearance and ensure no caps or bolt heads are on display.
Incredible Strength. Considering these 4" oval side stride bars are made from stainless steel tubing, you can trust in their sturdiness and durability. The step pads on these bars accept polymer structure, and so y'all get excellent grip when entering the vehicle.
Bolt-on Installation. These side footstep bars are unproblematic to install equally they commodities right on with no drilling or cut required. All of the mounting hardware you lot need comes with these bars.
Lifetime Warranty. Manufacturer backs these side step confined with a lifetime warranty. Refer to the manufacturer'south warranty documentation for coverage data.
Application. This pair of 09-18 RAM 1500 Quad or Crew Cab with this pair of Pro Traxx 4 in. Oval Side Stride Bars – Blackness are made to fit all 2009-2018 RAM 1500 Quad Cab and Crew Cab models.
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Installation & What's in the Box
Installation Info
Installation Fourth dimension
(approx) 1 Hour
Difficulty Level:
Unproblematic installation for anyone.
What'south in the Box
- (2) Side Step Bars
- (ane) Mounting Hardware Kit
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