etrailer | Installing the Buyers Products Van Ladder Rack on your 2015 Chevrolet Express Van

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Connor: Hey guys. Connor here at etrailer.com. Today, we're going to be taking a look at the Buyers Products van ladder rack for our 2015 Chevrolet Express van. The Buyer's products van ladder rack is going to be a great option for our express fan in particular. It's going to allow us to carry some longer items we have, such as lumber or ladders in particular and it's going to free up some space we have inside the van. So as you can see here, this ladder rack offers a complete bolt on installation.There's no drilling or cutting into the vehicle required whatsoever.

It's simply uses these clamp-on brackets of which there are two different sets included with this kit so it can accommodate different rain gutters, shapes. Now the crossbars are also going to be adjustable in length, so they're going to fit different with as well. Now another great couple of features I really like about this Buyers Products ladder rack is number one these taller uprights here are going to act as an additional load stop mechanism as well as the adjustable load stops we have here in the center, which can be secured with this little set screw.We also have some tie down points here on the side as well as the overall finish, which is a white powder coat, so it's very durable and it just looks really nice on a roof. Our ladder rack here is made a 14 gauge steel. This is going to give us a combined 600-pound weight capacity that we do need to make sure we're evenly distributing the weight across all of the crossbars.

This particular setup here, we're using the three-bar option. However, this is also available in only a two-bar as well.So as far as installation go, again, it's a no drill kit, there's not any cutting or any sort of special tools required. You should be able to put this up yourself in your driveway with just a ladder and some basic hand tools. And now that we've gone over some of the features, let's see how easy it is to install yourself. To start our installation today, we need to open up our kit and lay out all the contents.This first step is going to entail three separate pieces.

We have the gutter mount brackets, we have the side tubes, and then we have our M12 bolts with our lock washers. There's going to be six of each of these components and we're going to assemble this first before we move on to the next step. So if we take a look at our gutter mount bracket here, there's going to be an inward and an outward side. We have the side with the bracket on it is it going to be facing in over the roof and this side is actually going to be facing outside the vehicle. And there's also going to be two sides to our side metal brackets.If we see here one side is open and one side has a weld nut threaded in there.

The side with the weld nut is going to match up to our plate here and it's going to align with either one of these two bolt holes. Now, the front and rear crossbars are going to use this top bolt hole, whereas the middle cross is going to use the bottom bolt hole. So essentially we are going to have for these brackets with the two was mounted at the top and then two of these brackets with the tubes mounted at the bottom. And we are going to take our M12 bolt here with our lock nut.We're going to be doing the front and rear ones first, so we want to thread that bolt through the top hole there. And then what we can do is align that with the weld nut inside the tube and just simply thread it on. Now don't worry about getting it too tight. Now we'll make all our final adjustments when we have everything in place, but we do want to get the tube snug against the side plate there. And if you have handy a 19 millimeter socket and ratchet, we can go ahead and just snug this up a little bit, but we're not going to be collapsing your lock nut quite yet.And now that we have that one done, we can go ahead and repeat this process for the other five. Again, remember four of them will be using this top bolt hole. Two of them will be using this bottom bolt hole and we need to keep in mind when we're assembling our side brackets and our side tube here, we need to make sure that this little flat flange