TorkLift Talon Camper Tie-Downs - Custom Frame Mount - Aluminum - Front

Video Transcript for TorkLift Talon Front Camper Tie-Downs Installation - 2015 Ford F-150

Today in 2015 Ford F150, we're going to take a look at and show you how to install the TorkLift Talon Custom Aluminum Frame-Mounting Camper Tie-Downs. These are for the front, part# is TLF2018A. Here's what our camper tie-downs look like, installed. As you can see, really pretty straightforward system. We're going to have attachment points here that are all going to go into preexisting holes. We're not going to have to worry about drilling any holes, or anything like that. Something that's only on the driver's side here, you're going to see the two nuts are holding in our gusset plate, here. This actually leaves room for your parking brake cable to go through, if you've got a mechanical style parking brake.

The electronics, you won't have to worry about, but a mechanical, that's going to pass right through there. They've really thought of everything for us, it makes it a pretty easy system to get installed. The benefit to our camper tie-downs being frame mounted, here, is that we're bringing everything down and locking into our frame, so our camper's not going to do that side-to-side moving, it's not going to do that shifting. This is going to give us better stability, and better handling as we're heading down the road. These are adjustable. We're going to have four inches of adjustment. You can see here we've got two holes to select from.

Our first hole would be that position, there. From the outside edge of our truck that's going to give us about nine inches to the end of our mount. If we move it in that four, we should be closer to five now. Yeah, right on five inches right here to the end. That's going to allow adjustment.

You'll see a little movement, and a little play. If you leave these in when you're heading down the road, and you're camper's not secured, these are going to make some noise. They've allowed a tolerance here, so as dirt, grime, and stuff like that get in there, we're still going to be able to install these easily. When not in use, completely remove them from the vehicle, and we're not losing any ground clearance, we're not really losing anything. We're just going to have a nice, solid anchor point for when we want to travel with our camper. TorkLift stands behind their product really well. They're offering a lifetime warranty with this, so if anything's ever to go wrong, we get it back to them, they're going to get it fixed for us.

This is made completely out of aircraft grade aluminium, and we've got a very strong, sturdy, black powder coat finish to give it a nice look, and keep it looking good for a long time. Of course, with the aluminum construction, we're going to have no worry of any kind of rusting or corrosion. To being our installation, we're going to take one of our half inch by two inch bolts. We want to thread that onto a bolt leader. We're going to add on one of the serrated washers, also one of the spacer blocks there, just like that. We'll feed it in, there's a round hole in the side of the frame, here, that I'm going to use. We want to feed the non-coiled end into there, and we want it to come out this oblong hole right here. Put our spacer in, our washer in, and our bolt. We just kind of pull it down there, and we can leave that attached for now. Now we're going to take another setup just like what we just used. This time we're going to go in the square hole, here, and we want to come out the top hole. It's going to be right below our front bed mount, and right above our forward spring perch. It's usually better to feed our items in there separately. I'm going to pull it through, but then we want to let it hand right back in, just like that. We've got our 3/8 fish wire. We're going to attach a 3/8 x 2 bolt. Then we're going to slide on one of the serrated washers, one of the smaller flat washers, another serrated washer, then our spacer block. Again here, we're going to use one of the larger square holes, and we're going to come out the triangular shaped hole. We'll pull that out, make sure we've got everything in line, there, then we'll let that rest back in the frame as well, just like that. We want to take our spacer place, and also our bracket. We're going to bring our bolt leaders through our appropriate holes here, just like that. We also want to do the one on the bottom, here. We can guide this up into position. Now we're going to carefully remove our bolt leader off of our bolt down here on the bottom. This is the one that comes out of hole F. To that, we want to add a flat washer, and we'll secure it with one of our hex nuts here at the bottom. In our instruction booklet, step 6 told us that we needed to put a flat washer, a star washer, and a hex nut on the bolt that comes out of hole F, here. After going through and installing, we realized that that was a mistake in the instructions. On bolt F here, both the driver's side and on our passenger side, you want a flat washer, you want a lock washer, and then a nut. Instead of using the star washer that they call for, please use one of the included lock washer. We're going to place on a flat washer, a lock washer, and one of our hex nuts. Now we can take off our 3/8" leader here. To that, we need to add a 2x2 square spacer, and we're going to add on a flat washer. We'll do our flat washer, and then add on our nut. We're going to take another one of our 1/2" x 2" bolts, we're going to put a star washer on it, put our plate on there, and then we're going to stick it right up here on this front spring perch, so it'll come out the hole here on the side, just like that. Under that, we're going to add a flat washer, lock washer, and our nut. It's time to snug up our bolts. We're going to do it in the following sequence. We'll start with F, then we'll move to D, then to C, which will be the 3/8 bolt, and then B, which will be the one on the very top, there. It's time for us to grab our shorter 1/2" bolts, and our gusset plate. We're going to pass those through, and then those are going to go right through the two holes that are in our bracket. On the other side, we're going to add on a flat washer, lock washer, and also a nut. Now we can snug those down. We'll look at our instructions, find our torque specifications, and get everything torqued down appropriately. Now we can slide our bracket into place. We just want the offset to be towards the front of our truck. Once we've determined which bracket we're going to be using, we've got a sticker that we'll be able to place on there. That way we won't have to walk back and forth trying to figure out which one goes where. Right here, driver's front, that's where we're at. We'll head over to our passenger side, do the exact same thing there, with the exception we won't need to install the gusset plate. With everything torqued down to specification, that's going to complete our installation of the TorkLift Talon Custom Frame-Mounting Camper Tie-Downs, part# is TLF2018A, on our 2015 Ford F150.