Demco Tabless Base Plate Kit - Removable Arms

Video Transcript for Demco Tabless Base Plate Kit Installation - 2018 Jeep JK Wrangler Unlimited DM34FR

Hi there flat towers. Today in your 2018 Jeep Wrangler JK Unlimited we're going to be taking a look at and showing you how to install Demco's Tabless Base Plate. We're showing it off here on the Oscar Mike Freedom Edition. You can see the bumper is a little bit different than your factory JK bumpers.Your base plate is one of five main components necessary when flat towing your vehicle behind your motor home. Your base plate provides a connection point for your tow bar to attach to, but in addition to that, you're also going to need your tow bar, which is the connection between your base plate and your motor home. You'll need your diode wiring, which takes the lighting signals from your motor home and transfers them here back to our vehicle.

Our base plate does provide a bracket here for our electrical components. You'll also need your safety cables, which is a supplemental connection in addition to your tow bar. And lastly, you need your supplemental braking system, which will apply the brakes in your vehicle when you hit the brakes in your motor home.This is one of the easiest base plates to install. If you have a JK Wrangler pay attention to the style of bumper that you come with because there are different bumper styles from the factory. And if you have this style with the links here, it will attach directly between those two links and you can have it installed in less than 15 minutes.It's custom fit for this specific bumper from Jeep.

And again, it does go between those two and you can see it tucks up very nicely and it looks almost like it was supposed to be there. You've got your connection point for your tow bar here. And this base plate does come with ends that you can attach to your tow bar. It also comes with hardware and adapters so if you've got a different manufacturer, other than Demco, you get what you need to be able to attach the ends to that particular model of tow bar. Next to that, we've got our safety cable connection point right here.

And lastly, we've got our electrical component mounting bracket here, and this can be placed on either the driver's side or over here on the passenger side.Now that we've gone over some of the features, why don't you follow along with me in the shop and you can see really how easy this base plate is to install. We'll begin our installation by taking the bushings that come in our kit, and these are going to spit in the large hole here on the de-link, here at the front. We're just going to slide that in. And we're going to slide one in over on the other side as well. You'll have four bolts that come in your kit, you'll also get some blue Loctite.

Each of these four bolts we're going to put the blue Loctite on. I'm going to prepare two right now because these two we're going to be using in just a moment when we lift our base plate up. Take these two and then slide on one of the oval washers.Now with an extra set of hands, we're going to lift our base plate into position. We want to just roll it up to line your holes up there. Then we're going to take our bolt that we prepared and we're just going to thread it right into the base plate. Once we get one started on each side, the base plate will hold itself up, making it easier to install our lower bolt. Then you can line up your lower hole and thread it in.Now that we've got them started all the way around, we can go back and tighten them up with a 19 millimeter socket. We can then go back and torque our hardware to the specifications found in our instructions. We're now going to attach the safety cables that come included with your kit, and these are going to wrap around our frame and attach to this point. It's a little easier if you get it around the frame first. We're going to come in from the side, we're just going to start here on top, push it around the top of the frame, making sure that we don't pinch any wiring or hoses when doing this. And that can be the tricky part, is getting it around all that wiring and stuff because it is pretty crowded. Then once you've got it wrapped around the frame there, with nothing pinched in between the cable and the frame, we're just going to attach it to itself. We're going to take our quick link here, just run it through the hook and then wrap it around our cable. And then we can tighten that back down.And the other end is just going to wrap around to the side here, where we can attach it with our inaudible 00:04:29, we'll then do the same thing over on the other side. And just to make things look a little bit nicer and keep the cable up out of the way I did go ahead and zip tie the cable here. You don't have to, but it helps keep it nicer and cleaner. And in the event that you do need this cable, have a catastrophic disconnect, this zip tie's just going to break and your cable is going to function like normal.You'll also receive a bracket that comes included with your kit and this is for attaching any of your electrical connections to. Our customer's going to be adding a base plate diode wiring, a lot of other components so we're going to go ahead and attach this as well. You'll have two holes and these are all on both sides, the driver or passenger side so you can choose which side is best. The bolts that come in your kit we're just going to drop down through those holes, slide it through our bracket, and then on bottom, we're going to follow that up with a lock washer and nut. Then we can snug those down with an 11 millimeter socket and wrench.And that completes our look at Demco's Tabless Base Plate on our 2018 Jeep Wrangler JK unlimited.