Westin Platinum Series Oval Nerf Bars - 4" - Polished Stainless Steel

Video Transcript for Westin Platinum Series Oval Nerf Bars Installation - 2019 GMC Canyon

Hi, there Canyon owners today in your 2019 GMC Canyon, we're going to be taking a look at and showing you how to install Westin's Platinum Oval Nerf bars. These are available either in black, like you see here or in stainless steel. These Nerf bars are four inch diameter, and they're going to add to look at your Canyon, giving it a more rugged appearance. The Nerf bars are a solid sturdy metal, and they add to the whittier vehicle just a little bit, which makes your vehicle just overall look a little bit bigger and beef here than it was before. There are four traction pads located on the Nerf bars, two on each side, one for each door. The pads make it easier to get in and out of the vehicle, as well as providing additional traction.This is particularly useful, if you have mobility issues, you have young children, or if you just have a very high lifted truck.

And you can see here with my foot on the pad, I've got a pretty large foot size 13, and there's plenty of surface area here for me to step up into. It's an easy no-drill installation. And since we've gone over some of the features here, let's go ahead and go over that installation now. So you can have the confidence to do it at home. We'll begin our installation by installing the brackets for our Nerf bars.

We're going to start here at the front by removing the panel that you see right here, this little trim panel. To remove the trim panel here at the front, There are two screws here in our wheel well. We're going to use a T15 Torx socket to remove those.There's also another one, a little bit further in. Our panel can now come off. There are two tabs located behind it.

So you'll want to use a trim panel tool to assist you with removing it. We're going to try to get behind there and pop the pins out with our panel. If they don't come off with the panel, that's okay. We can pop those off afterwards and then put them back in. But if you can't get them off with it, it just makes things a little bit easier.

You can see here that ours didn't come off. That's okay. We can take our trim panel tool and place it behind it, and then just work it out. It'll then just slide back into our panel. Just like that. So I'm going to go ahead and remove the other one and put it back in here. We remove the panel to access these two bolts located behind it. We'll use a 10 millimeter socket to remove both of those. They are painted. So it can be a little difficult to get your socket on there.We'll, then take the small button head screws that come in your kit, place a black flat washer on it. And then we're just going to re-install this into the weld nuts, where we just removed those bolts. You want to tighten them down. This provides a hanger on the opposite side for our front bracket. You'll also want to pay attention that they are labeled. So we're on the driver's side. So we're using DF for driver's front. These, holes there slide up over our studs. You may have to kind of get it in there just right. And then you can slide it over like that. Now we're not going to leave it on there because these two holes over here, we have rubber grommets in the frame. We need to pop those out as well. So we're going to go ahead and move over to those.We're, now underneath the vehicle, we're just on the other side of where we we're working. Here's the bolts that we had just installed for the reason, it's like a hanger for our bracket. If we go to the rear of those. You'll find two grommets here. These are the ones that we need to pop out. So we're just going to use our flat blade screwdriver to get behind them, and then pop them out of there. Once you've got them popped out, you'll see a large hole next to a small hole. We're going to take our U shaped nuts here. They're going to slide through the large hole, and we're going to take the nut end and make sure that it lines up with the small hole after we slide it on. We'll then going to do that with this whole, but we want to make sure we're using the small hole here that's just above this one. We don't want to use the one up top.And if You accidentally put it in there, it's not really a big deal. You can move this nut around pretty easily. If it lines up with the wrong hole, sometimes it can be a little difficult to get it started in this one. Once you get it started, though, you can usually just take your screwdriver and kind of pry it, the rest of the inaudible 00:05:02. Now our bracket is ready to be put in place. So we're going to slide it over the bolts that we put on to hold it up. We're then going to take the smaller hex head bolts that come in our kit. We're going to place a lock washer on it, followed by a flat washer. We're using the larger diameter flat washer here. This one's going to go in the bottom into the U nut that we put in place. And we just want these to be loosely installed for now. So we're just trying to get it to grab, and that's Good.For the bolt directly above it. We're going to use similar hardware instead of the larger diameter flat washer, we're going to be using the smaller diameter one. Then on the backside of the bolts that we had run through, we use as a hanger. We're going to slide on a black flat washer, followed by a black lock washer, and a black nut. We're going to do that on the other bolts as well that we had run through. And all of this hardware is going to remain loose. We've now moved to our rear bracket. So if you just follow your frame rail down, you'll find grommets here at the back. And these are located pretty much, right on top of one another, we're going to remove these.And then we need to fish wire in these bolts here. The bolt is going to come out through this, so it will be like that. And this is our access hole to feed it in. So in order to get that hardware in there, we're going to use the fish wire that comes in our kit, poke the fish wire through the small hole. Feed it back down through the large hole, take one of the bolts with the weld plate on it, and thread it onto the fish wire. Now that we've got it thread on to our wire, we can push it into up into frame there and pull it back down. Once you pull it back down, we're going to take our fish wire off. Because we're going to need to reuse it for this top bolt here. But we're going to take the plastic washers that come in the kit and we're going to put it on these.These are a nice tight fit that you have to kind of thread on there a little bit. You can also just kind of push it on there, but it's pretty difficult to just push it. We don't want it to go on very far. We're just trying to go on enough to ensure that we have enough of the bolt sticking through to pass through the bracket that we're going to be putting on back here. So that's probably pretty good right there, because if we go all the way up, our bolts going to be kind of stuck here. This keeps us from pushing it all the way back in, but does let us push some of it in there because we are going to have to push most of the bolts up in order to get our bracket in place. So we're not going to repeat that same process with this hole up here.Now that we've got them both in place, we can put our lower bracket on. If you look at our lower bracket here, the large slot here goes down. That's where our Nerf bar is going to attach. So we're going to use these two slotted holes here and feed our bolts through them. So in order to do this, you're going to have to get one bolt started in the other. So what I usually do is push the bottom bolt up into the frame. Not all the way, just up to the where that little plastic washer was. And then I can push the top one in and kind of angle it down, until we get them just pass through like that. Now there is lock washers and washers we're putting on here, but we're going to just start with the nut alone. Because as we tighten this down, it's going to pull more of the threads through to allow us to use the other hardware. So I'm just going to do that on this one.We should have plenty of length there to work with. We're going to do the same on this bottom one. Because also, when you pull these through, it kind of keeps the bracket in place. So I took the nut back off now. Now that I got each one started, I'm going to slide the large flat washer and lock washer on and then loosely re-install the nuts. We're going to do that on the bottom bolt there as well now. We're once again, back at our front bracket, we're going to put on our support strap that goes from the body mount bolt right here. So this is just right behind the bracket, if you we're standing on the outside, looking in. We're going to use a 21 millimeter socket to remove the bolts.We'll, then take our front support strap. We're going to have our slotted end facing out the regular hole there. Our bolt will slide through. We're going to place a spacer on top and then re-installed as bolt. We also want to leave this bolt loose though for now. So we can get everything lined up when we go to put the Nerf bars in place. And then I'm going to head back towards the middle of the vehicle. There's another body mount right here. We're going to be using this one for our middle support strap. Uses the same size socket to remove the bolt.We'll, then take our middle support strap this time the slotted hole is going to go towards the inside with our bolt in it. We'll just slide it back up in, and then we're going to reinstall it. Again, we're going to leave this one loose. We can now prepare the hardware for our Nerf bars. It's going to use the larger hex head bolts that come in the kit with the larger lock washer and flat washer on it. We'll have two one for the front and the rear. You can go ahead and slide those through your brackets. They should hold in place. I like to do that just because it kind of is a little easier when you're trying to hold the Nerf bar up to get that bolt started. We're not going to get our Nerf bar. I just want, wanted to point out that they are specific to the passenger and driver's side. They come wrapped in this bubble wrap here and there's a sticker on it. Indicating which side it is.We'll then bring our Nerf bar over and we're going to get one bolt started and then the other. I usually just rest one side on the ground and that way I can hold this side up. Line it up with the nut and get it started. Again, we don't need to tighten it all the way down. We're really just looking to get it started at this point. So we can go up to the front and get it started. So, that's good there. We'll then come up to the front here and install this one. And with our middle bracket here, we're going to be using the large button head bolt that comes in the kit with a lock washer and flat washer on it that are also black. Now, we can take the lower bracket here for the middle and line that up with the weld nuts in our Nerf bar. And again, we're just going to loosely install this.Now with everything loosely installed, we can go back and tighten down all the hardware. I'm going to start by tightening down the brackets at the front and rear. Then the middle, and then we'll tighten down the Nerf bar bolts at the end. So some of these, you may need a wrench to get to, if your socket is too long there. The small black bolts tightened down with a 10 millimeter socket or wrench. Make sure not to over-tighten the hardware. We want it to be just nice and snug. There is torque specs in your instruction. So I highly recommend that you torque those down to what those say. But they are all very low torque. So you're going to need a very low torque, torque wrench to do so. And we'll do the side hardware here at the top. The larger bolts here are going to use a 13 millimeter socket. We can then route through our back one.We're going to re-tighten down both of those body stud bolts that we took loose. We can now go back and tighten down our Nerf bar bolts. We're going to use a 19 millimeter socket or wrench to do so. And then we'll tighten down our middle bolt here. We're using the Allen keys that come included with our kit to tighten down the button head bolts. Coming from the large one for this one, and also with a smaller Allen key for the two smaller ones that we used as a hanger for the front bracket. And then we'll torque all of our hardware to the specifications found in our instructions. We can then replace our cover now lining up our pins, snapping those back in place, and then reinstalling the screws that hold it in. Repeat all the same steps, to do our passenger side. And that completes our look at Westin's Platinum Oval Nerf bars on our 2019 GMC Canyon.