 Hi my name is Andrew with Razor Back Off-Road and today we're doing an install video on an Expedition Rack for a 24 Razor XP. And to get started I'll go over some of the components that you'll need and that you'll receive and we'll just jump right into it. So as you can see we have a lot of components laid out on the table and this is about only half of it but I'll go through kind of the steps that you'll be going through during the install. So we're going to be starting with the mounting brackets then you'll start with the sides and we'll have to also install a basket tray and a tailgate but I'll just kind of go through the tools that you'll need and the hardware there is quite a bit of hardware and I'll try to go through each piece during each step. So some of the tools that you'll need you'll need I'm just for video purposes using an impact you can use a hand ratchet if you wanted to but just for speed purposes I'm going to be using an impact you'll need a breaker bar and the sockets that you'll need you'll need a 3.8 a 7.16 and a 15 millimeter you'll need some allen tools you'll need a 3.16 and a quarter inch and then I'm using the box wrenches and you'll need a half inch a 7.16 and a 3.8 and that's the basic hand tools that you'll need you can use other tools that you have handy but these are kind of the basic tools that you'll need. So I'll jump right into it on the step number one we're going to install the brackets onto the the roll cage and so if you notice the brackets there's some with two notches and they're right here on the inside so we have some with two notches and we have some with one notch so you're going to start with the one notch this is for the roll cage bars themselves so you'll start with the single notch and then you'll grab a long we call these spacer brackets so these are spacers so that way you'll install them the same on each side so we have a long one and then we have a shorter one so you want to grab each of these and you want to grab the 15 millimeter and we include so there are these large aluminum spacers and this is the spacers that will go underneath the brackets so I'll go ahead and grab that and move over to the machine so I'm just going to set this stuff in the tub so you'll grab the breaker bar in the 15 millimeter and you're going to pop loose the the top bolt here and you're going to also loosen the bottom bolt here these are the bolts that we're going to be tying into so use the breaker bar and break loose those bolts okay so now that we got those loose I'll back them the rest of the way out with the impact just be mindful there's a there's a recess nut inside of the roll cage here and so just have your hand underneath to make sure that it doesn't fall down and I'll just back this all the rest of the way off okay and with my hand holding that in place I'll pull out the the roll cage bolt okay and I'll put two of those washers in place and you're going to take the longer spacer bracket and you're going to put it right on top of that okay and you're going to just feed it through all of those and then go ahead and get that started okay and you can go ahead and tighten it down a little bit just because don't tighten it down all the way but just at least get it to where it's kind of snug but you could still move the bracket back and forth so I can still move the bracket back and forth okay and then you're going to do the same thing to the top so now for the upper one I failed to mention in the beginning we provide an M10 bolt that you're going to be replacing on the top this one you can use a stock one but we'll provide you the one that you need to replace on the top so grab the smaller bracket the two spacers and the bolt that we provided okay we're going to just take this all the way out so just be careful because this hardware will fall out so keep the the nut that was provided okay and grab your spacers put your spacers up there and then grab the bolt and kind of feed it through all of that okay go ahead and start the nut there and then tighten it down but don't just kind of get it snug don't get it all the way tight yet okay so you can still kind of move it back and forth freely okay and so now we'll go into the next phase so just take your 15 millimeter and just kind of put it off to the side for now you're going to grab the brackets with the single notch you're going to grab two of those you're going to grab so these are spacer brackets so essentially these will be bolted to the bottom like this and this goes around the tube and this is what you're going to be installing next you're going to need two of the spacer brackets you're going to need two of the single notch brackets you're going to have eight pieces of quarter inch hardware these flange bolts that we provided and also the nylock nuts that go along with it so you'll need eight of those and you'll need a three three eighths box wrench and a 716 socket so this is kind of all that you'll need for the next step so i'll go ahead and do that all right so just i'm just putting everything into the tub here all right so with these spacer brackets you'll notice there's a little notch that's cut out here this was engineered for a purpose and these notch notches will space it and it'll slide right over this bracket right here and that's how it spaces itself onto the roll cage so you'll put one of these here and then you can also put another one up here it's got that not same notch and this slot and it'll literally fall right there and then that's how it's going to space these brackets for your side install all right and so the next step will be grabbing this bracket and this bracket will mount underneath okay and you're going to take the quarter inch hardware and you're going to i'll start with kind of getting one one going okay and i just kind of do that all the way around okay just kind of get your hardware started all right and you're going to just put hardware and all of the holes and you're going to do the same thing into the top so now that you kind of have your hardware started on the top and the bottom bracket we're going to now kind of set these spacers so what you're going to want to try to look for is you're going to want to just try to align those spacers as straight as possible down the center of the tube so you're going to space them and move them kind of into place and just make sure that this these brackets are pointed straight towards each other as best as you can so you might need to make some slight adjustments so that 15 millimeter that we had before okay i'm going to grab this and now you're going to actually tighten these down all the way okay make sure you tighten them down as best as you can and when you do tighten this refer to your service manual for torque specs and go ahead and torque down these bolts as well according to manufacturer's specs so make sure that it's aligned torque the bolts both top and bottom and then we'll go into tightening the brackets in the next step here so once you have those tightened down you're going to grab your seven sixteenths socket and you're going to grab your three eights and we're going to go ahead and start tightening down these bolts so you want to tighten them down evenly because if you tighten them down all on one side it's going to actually pull that bracket to one side so you want to kind of just go through take your time and tighten the bolts evenly all at the same time so that way it doesn't move your bracket too much and if it does pull to one side you might need to loosen it and kind of reposition it but just go through and start tightening these bolts down just kind of just go evenly take your time with it and just keep your eye on it and just make sure that it doesn't move too much on here so you're going to do that for the bottom and you're going to do it for the top and then i'll go into the next step so once you have this all tightened down i guess i'll just kind of talk about a little bit of a strategy when you are tightening so like i said first i mentioned kind of evenly tightening it but also just pay attention to the bracket and this notch and just make sure that notch is evenly being tightened with the bracket so they're they're both at the same level because if you do tighten into one side or the other then when we lay the tube that is on the side in here it won't lay in there nice and even even um so that was i just wanted to kind of give you a little tip there is just to pay attention to this bracket and the notch and just make sure that they're both level and that the spacer brackets are in line with each other and i mean you can look down and just make sure that they're they're pretty well aligned and then you should be good to go all right so the next step that i'm going to do is we're going to actually install the side so just a word of caution um i would highly suggest you have a buddy or a friend that can help you kind of hold it into place while you install the top brackets just because it is a little bit kind of awkward for a single person and also probably what i'm going to actually do is lay a towel on the plastic as well just to so you don't scratch your machine up or the rack and i'll kind of go through that in the next step so you're going to grab the side so how do you tell the difference between the sides um if you stand up the side this is how the side will go so this is the passenger side and that's what we're going to be installing in the first step and then the driver side will have this i mean this is the tube that you'll be actually mounting those brackets on is this okay so this is the passenger side and the driver side so you're going to grab two of the brackets here the ones with the two notches you're going to grab eight of the quarter inch uh flange bolts and also the eight nylox and you're going to need a three eights socket and a seven sixteenths box wrench so grab the side and let me just kind of explain kind of how this mounts so to know that you have the passenger side it has these unique tailgate brackets that are right here it's not the same as the other side so that's what you got to look for for the passenger side and these brackets what it's going to do is it's going to mount onto this tubing right here and it's actually so this bracket will actually rest on the top one so it's going to rest right up against there and that's how you know that it's installed correctly is that it's all the way up against that bracket so that's how it's going to sit and then the other one will just kind of float in here and be attached to the bottom so this will go on just like that and that's kind of what i mean i would highly recommend you have a friend that can help hold it as you could see it's just kind of laying there and you want to start with the top bracket so i just kind of get two bolts started and then i can actually just install it and then it's kind of like said there's a method to the madness but i highly suggest you have a friend help you with this okay and i'm going to kind of pull down get some pressure so these bolts actually kind of lock into place and you can kind of get them started that way okay then i can just kind of gently rest it that's why we put those towels there and at least get these top two started because once those are started you should be okay then to install the rest of the the bolts and the brackets and the hardware all right so i've just started started the bolts i got all four in the top now let's do the bottom side and it's just going to lay on there this should be a lot easier now that the top one's kind of started so once you have all the hardware started you're going to grab the seven sixteenths box wrench and that three eight socket and you start with the top bracket um i have a step ladder here it's probably going to really help if you have a step ladder at least to kind of get up and over the top here but you can kind of see that the side can still move up and down you just want to make sure that that bracket's resting against the top bracket sorry the bracket on the side is resting on the bracket here you can see that it can't go down anymore and go ahead and start tightening those bolts so i'm just starting it you can see that i can still move the side back and forth so that's what you want you want to still be able to have a side move back and forth because we're going to put the other side on and the tray and then we'll align it so go ahead and tighten these ones as well like once again we're not tightening down all the way you can see i can still move the side okay so we're just getting them started that way it'll be easier during the tightening process so now that we have the side kind of fully ready um we're going to go ahead and you're going to do the same process for the other side so i'm going to go ahead and install that and then we'll come back to installing the tray after that so just like the previous step now that we have these brackets installed and tightened down and nicely aligned we're going to go ahead and put on the side so now that you have the both sides installed okay and making sure that they're still loose so we can make an adjustment later we're going to go ahead and move into phase two so phase two will involve the basket tray and the tailgate um let me just explain on the basket tray if your basket tray does not come with the ball stud installed you will have one but typically you'll install the ball stud which is for the gas shock right here on the passenger side so if the logo is facing up you're going to have it onto the right side okay so let me move into the hardware and the tools now so for the hardware you're going to need the quarter inch bolts and the nylox and you're going to need a 716 box wrench you're going to need a 3 8 socket and so i'll go right into installing the basket now so you're going to grab the basket so you're going to take the tray and you're just going to kind of place it on top of the rack gently like so and you can see that there's these tabs here in the front and so those will actually come up to meet the basket tray all right so i'm going to grab my three bolts and just kind of get them started for each side so i start with one side so there's one that is kind of over the top here so you'll need to get that started like so so there's that one there's the one that's right here in the front you're gonna go ahead and you get that in there and get it started and if you can't reach uh you can use a step ladder for this step i'd highly suggest that that right then there's one more in the back here so this is going to go through the back here so now i've got these three bolts on this side you're going to go ahead and do the same thing to the other side so now that now that you have your bolt started we're going to go ahead and set the sides now you will need a stool because you kind of need to get up on top and look down but there's two bolts that are right here underneath here right in front and those we're going to tighten first to kind of set the angle of the sides and you're going to want to actually tighten them right in the center of the slot on the basket tray so when you put them in the center that should set the size to where they're straight but you may you know as you're tightening it down you may need to loosen and kind of tweak it because what you want is you want the sides here to be straight up and straight down okay so we're just going to set them in the center of the slot and then you may have to tweak it you might need to take a step back and kind of look and just that's that's this is the point where you're going to be aligning your sides so it's kind of an important step for the rest of the install to be completed so we'll go ahead and do that i'm going to tighten these down in the center so i'm going to grab my stool and i'm going to kind of come up to the top here and i'm going to grab my three eighths and my seven sixteenth socket and i'm going to tighten these down to kind of get them into place get them started so what i'm actually doing is i'm kind of using my body to kind of push the side kind of where i want it but just make sure that the basket tray is also up against that front kind of bracket that's bent into the side here so make sure that it's up against that bracket before you tighten it down and then in the center of the slot right so all the way up center in the slot and that'll set you up for success on the next part so once you kind of have those set like i said you're going to start in the center of the slot but it'll be a good idea to take a step back and just make sure that the the side of the rack here is straight up and straight down so then you may need to kind of loosen it and slowly bump it out until these are straight up and straight down and then once you have that set then you're going to go ahead and tighten up the rest of the bolts right where they're at and then you should be good to go for the for the tailgate install so i'm going to go ahead and just kind of make my little adjustments tighten up the bolts and then we'll move on to the tailgate so now that the sides are set and all of the bolts are tightened on the tray and you're happy with how everything's setting let's not forget that we need to tighten these brackets down because that's now going to set set the sides into place so go ahead and tighten down all four of these brackets completely you're going to need the three eighth socket in the seven sixteenths box wrench and go ahead and tighten this once you've gone through got everything snugged down you're happy the rack's happy everyone's happy we're going to move on to the tailgate brackets and so you're going to mount them on the passenger side and i'll go over the brackets that you'll need and then the hardware as well we have these u-shaped brackets and these are going to be installed on to the passenger side so you'll need two the two that we've provided you you're going to have eight of the five sixteenths socket cap screws you're going to have eight of the nylox you're going to have a half inch box wrench and a quarter inch allen you're going to take one of the brackets and i'm going to grab two to just get it started and you're going to want to make sure that you put it right on the bottom don't put it on the top so there's weld up here and there's no weld underneath so don't put it on the top make sure you put it on the bottom and then i'm going to just go ahead and kind of get two of them started let's get it started okay i'm going to start with two and then go ahead and put the other ones in as well we'll just go ahead and just do all four now so now that you got the bottom one do the same to the top i'm going to go ahead and get this started and so i'm just going to tighten them down just a little bit not all the way just to kind of break past the nyloc part but you want to still be able to move it side to side so you want to still be able to move it side to side for adjustment so just kind of get them somewhat started so once you kind of have the bolt started and you can still move the brackets back and forth for adjustment we're going to install the tailgate receiver bracket on this side so go ahead and talk about the hardware and the tools you'll need for that so you're going to use this bracket this is the tailgate receiver bracket and then you're going to need two quarter inch bolts and the two nylocs and then as for tools you're going to use a three eighth socket and you're going to use a seven sixteenths box wrench for this bracket you're going to see that it's kind of got these two bends here you're going to want to face that outside and this rubber bumper is going to actually go right inside of this slot just like that so you want it facing that way and you're going to take your quarter inch hardware and put it in the top and you're going to put the other one in the bottom and kind of the same same method i'm just trying to get it somewhat started but we still want to keep it somewhat loose so you can because this has adjustability in as well but we just want the bolts to be kind of close to tight but not tightened down all the way just so when we do the tailgate it's a little bit easier once we have that in place and like like i said make sure it's still loose now we'll go into the final phase which is going to be the tailgate so i'll come over here and i'll kind of explain a couple of things and then i'll go into the hardware and the tools you'll need to install the tailgate so before we take it over there in your hardware package you'll receive this t-pin handle and this is to lock it lock the tailgate onto the latch but before you install it make sure you use thread locker blue thread locker and just put kind of a generous amount kind of on on the threads and then go ahead and tighten that on there all the way you want some thread locker on there because you're going to be going down trails and kind of going out on your adventures and there's going to be a lot of vibration and a lot of cyclic loading onto this machine so you don't want it vibrating loose and then you lose your t-pin so go ahead and put tighten that down all the way and then also if the tailgate doesn't have the ball stud installed on the top bracket here this has three holes in there and you can adjust it pretty much the standard position is all the way at the end here so you want to make sure that it's facing up and not down for it to fit right so that's kind of a little bit about the tailgate so now i'll move over into the hardware you'll need these two shoulder bolts you'll need these four a n washers you'll need these nylocks and this is the five sixteenths nylock you'll need this three sixteenths allen and then you'll need the half inch box wrench you grab one of the shoulder bolts and you're going to need two of those washers and then you're going to need that that nylock so kind of a trick that i do is i'll actually since we installed this t-pin handle here i'll actually go ahead and put it in here so i'll put it in there so it's kind of holding it up on this end okay and then now you can kind of work on the other end here so the sequence that it goes is that you're going to want to put an an washer in between kind of the bracket that's already installed on the tailgate right here you're going to want to have one of the awa and washers on top and then bottom and then the two hinge brackets on the tailgate will go over the top of both of those so we'll get a close-up here of kind of what i'm talking about but you're going to have those both of those washers in so with that three sixteenths allen go ahead and tighten these all the way down okay make sure both of these are tight okay so now the next step we're going to set the tailgate okay what does set the tailgate mean so this can move up and down because we haven't tightened these back these back brackets yet and so if you have a spare tire you're obviously going to want to really cheat this up a lot higher so that the weight of the tire will bring it down into the center of the um the receiving bracket so you're going to want to have you're going to have to kind of figure out where that's going to be you're going to have to put if you have a spare tire you're going to put it on here you're going to probably have to cheat it up rather high so that the weight will let it settle where it needs to be so i like to kind of cheat it up a little bit higher and you're going to have to grab you're going to have to grab that quarter inch allen and the half inch and you're going to have to start tightening these bolts in the back so once you're done tightening up your hinge brackets and you're happy with where your tailgate is at you're going to go ahead and grab you can grab the three eighths box wrench and the seven sixteenths box wrench because we don't have too much more to tighten but we're going to now tighten this tailgate receiver bracket so go ahead and close the gate and actually lock it or engage it okay and this will kind of set where that hinge plate needs to be or excuse me the receiver plate needs to be you're just going to go ahead and tighten down those bolts all the way so once you have that tightened down just make sure that it functions right you should be able to just close it it engages really nice you can unhook it so just double check and make sure that everything is installed there so the last step that we're going to do is we're going to install the gas bracket so the gas bracket this has some safety pins in there so you actually need to twist them off and make sure you don't lose these safety pins so you're going to take both of the safety pins out and then you're going to install kind of the larger end on the inside and then the skinnier end on tailgate itself so you'll install the larger the larger end on this and wait till it clicks put the safety pin in okay make sure that's good this one you might need to kind of use your hand and just kind of push it in a little bit and then that'll pop in and then don't forget your safety pin so once you're done installing your gas shock just go ahead and double check to make sure that everything is closing properly and that it opens okay so just make sure that everything is operating properly and it's always a good idea to go back through everything just make sure all the hardware is tightened down because you just don't want anything coming loose while you're out on the trail but other than that that's that's going to conclude the video and we really appreciate you watching if you have any questions about machine fitment this rack will fit both the two seat and the four seat models for the razor xp's and on our website we'll have a machine fitment chart on there that you can check out and also if you haven't checked out any of our other social media platforms facebook etc we're always coming out with new products also information promotions so please check check out all of our platforms and other than that i hope you enjoy our products and we'll see you out on the trail