Pack Rat / Sliding Pack Rat installation guidance
Recommended steps of get the Pack Rat mounted up (see below for Sliding Pack Rat)…
Get organized and lay out everything in a “staging area” of sorts so everything is easily identifiable.
- Loosely attach mounting brackets to the front (stainless steel t-track inserts, 4 on top, and 4 on the bottom) of the Pack Rat with the enclosed hardware.
- Use the enclosed hardware (20mm M6 screws with 1" fender washers) to attach Pack Rat to the brass mounting nuts within the Super Pacific X1 (be careful to not over tighten).
- Now go back and tighten the other 8 screws that are on the front of the Pack Rat
- Orient your included shelves how you'd like.
- With everything all mounted up...All Systems were Go for Offroad!!
Sliding Pack Rat installation guidance...
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Loosely attach mounting brackets to the included 8020 extruded aluminum with the stainless steel t-track inserts, 4 brackets on each profile.
- Also attach the enclosed L-Handle lock carriage bolt to one of the sliders. Orient the exposed threaded portion of the bolt to point in the same direction as the mounting brackets.
- Use the enclosed hardware (20mm M6 screws with 1" fender washers) to attach (snug, not tight) Pack Rat Sliders to the brass mounting nuts within the Super Pacific X1. Orient the sliders where the 8 mounting screws of each slider are facing out of the camper.
- Make sure the mounting brackets are spaced relatively even apart and lay flat against the camper and not on the rivets of the camper.
- Tighten down the screws holding the mounting brackets to the extruded aluminum to prevent it moving laterally.
- Tighten down the 20mm M6 screws of the upper slider only (be careful not to over tighten). Ensure that the slider is level to the camper (one side doesn't hang lower than the other).
- Attach the enclosed sliding track mounts to the top of the Pack Rat (there are two black sliding track nuts). I recommend spacing them as far apart as possible.
- Slide the carriage bolt on the upper slider into position to align with one of the two top sliding track mounts.
- There is an access hole that the carriage bolt will mate with within the sliding track mount.
- Hang the Pack Rat on the upper slider ensuring that the sliding track mount carriage bolt is mated through one of the mounts and exposed.
- Attach the enclosed sliding track mounts to the bottom of the Pack Rat (there are two black sliding track nuts). Ensure that the sliding track mount is properly aligned in the slider track.
- I recommend spacing the sliding mounting blocks as far apart as possible.
- There should still be a little bit of movement on the bottom slider.
- With one hand on the slider and the other on the Pack Rat, apply downward pressure to the slider while sliding the Pack Rat from one end to the other.
- Tighten each mount while you do this. This will ensure a proper alignment/lock up of the slider and and Pack Rat.
- Verify smooth operation of the sliding motion and that the Pack Rat door does not collide with the top portion of the Super Pacific hatch.
- Go back through all of the mounting hardware and ensure everything is snug and tight.
- Place the enclosed washer on the carriage bolt.
- Thread the Locking L-Handle onto the carriage bolt on the top slider.
- To thread this on, you'll want to start by rotating/threading the L-handle on as far as you can (usually about a half a turn).
- You'll then want to push down with an allen wrench inserted on the top of the handle and symotaniously rotating/thread the L-handle back to the starting position and repeat this process until the Locking L-Handle fully engages and the Pack Rat does not slide.
- This will be how you lock/unlock the Pack Rat from sliding on the slider tracks.
- We're almost done!! Install the limiting blocks with enclosed hardware on the top slider to set your maximum limits on each side of the slider track.
- Set up your shelves how you'd like.
- And finally...With everything all mounted up...All Systems were Go for Offroad!