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Hey guys, it's Jake here with etrailer. Today we've got my 2013 Ram 2500 and we're gonna be taking a look at, and I'm gonna show you how to install the Front Runner Slimline II Bed Rack. Front Runner makes a lot of racks that will mount to the top of your vehicle that you can see up here on top of my truck. A lot of people don't like to permanently mount their racks to the roof because they just use it during the summer or for a few trips a year. That's when this bed rack's gonna come in handy is you can mount the rails to the side rails of your truck and then if you take the bolts out you can slide this rack off and it's as if it was never there. The benefit of having this type of rack over top of your bed is so that if you ever run out of space when you're going on a long extended camping trip or if you like to go overlanding, you can load your bed up with stuff pretty quickly.
I know that personally from camping. So it's always good to have a lot of extra space. So this platform basically is going to double the size of your bed. The one thing that you will want to be careful with is obviously strapping things down. If you put stuff in your bed, usually you can leave it loose in there, but whenever you're putting stuff on top of this rack they have lots of different tie down point options that you can put on here and make sure that all your accessories on top are safely secured.
There's some other options out there for truck beds, for storage solutions or mounting accessories and typically they're gonna look like a load bar. So basically it's a roof rack or a ladder rack style that's just going to be mounted. Usually for a normal sized truck bed like this, you'll just have two bars that you can mount a rooftop tent to. You can mount bike racks to different things like that. You could also do that with a ladder rack.
The problem with ladder racks is that typically the bars are very, very thick to be able to haul those heavy extended loads. And with a rack like this, you're going to not only get those two that you would get with the load bars, but you're gonna get nine different mounting locations in these tracks all across the top. The entire perimeter of this rack is gonna have a track that'll accept an M8 bolt that goes in the side here. That's the same thing with these other tracks and we've only got about half the amount of slats that can fit in this. So you can fit a slat in here, in here and all the way down the rack.
So you can make this a solid platform if you want to. What I like about having that option is that you can move the slats. So if I wanted to take all like these three slats and move them forward into these three gaps, I can do that and then I still have usability inside of this space to be able to reach down haul extended load, stuff like that. So if you ever need to go pick up a one time thing from the store or something, you can take these bolts out, take the slats out, haul your extended loads, and then put your slats back in place. On a lot of overlanding rigs you'll see that people will mount lights and other accessories to their rigs, but typically they're gonna have to drill because the rack itself will use all the holes that the manufacturer has designed. If you decide to not go with any extra slats to go in between, you're still gonna have all these pre-drilled holes perfectly spaced throughout the entire rack. So like if you wanted to mount a couple of lights on here so that you can see at your campsite, I plan to mount several different types of lights on this rack and on my roof rack and those holes are gonna come in really, really handy when I go to do that. The entire rack is gonna be an aluminum construction. The uprights, the side rails, the top, everything's gonna be aluminum so you don't have to worry about rust later on in the future. Speaking of the side rails, this is where it's gonna be essentially a T track with nuts on the inside and they're gonna be track nuts. You can loosen the six bolts on each side and this is what you're gonna slide the rack out of. So if I don't ever want to use it or if it's coming up in winter and I know I'm not gonna be using it for a long time and I don't want it up here, I can loosen those six bolts on each side, drop my tailgate and slide the whole thing out. You will have to remo
