etrailer | B&W Headache Rack with LED Lights Installation - 2015 Chevrolet Silverado 3500

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Today on our 2015 Chevy Silverado 3500 Crewcab, we're going to install part number BWPUCP7541BA. This is the B&W Custom Headache Rack with LED lights. This headache rack is designed to keep the cargo from damaging your rear view window, keep anything from going through your glass. This has a louvered screen on it so you can still see out the back of your vehicle. These horizontal louvers actually help shield the sun from the truck and may help in decreasing the temperature inside the truck a little bit. Let's go ahead and take a look at the features rack on the side here. Looking on the passenger side, we've got a hand hold right here.

If you need to get access to the back of your truck you can. This also acts as a nice tie down point as well. It's got a nice wide base at the bottom, and it gets narrow as it goes up towards the top. Take a look at the top here, it acts as a load stop to keep anything from sliding off to the side, also, you've got a generous hole here that could be used for a tie down point as well. Our handles and tie down points are going to be identical on each side of the truck. We'll go ahead and take a look at the louvers here.

They are angled pointed down, but you can still see straight out through them. This is actually made of pretty heavy material. Whatever accidentally happens to hit on this, it's going to withstand the damage and protect your glass behind it. You also have about 1" or so of room between your glass and the louvers as well. On each side of the rack, we've got 2 LED lights, both with a chrome finish trim around them.

This will be a running light, turn signal, and brake. The lights on the inside will only act as a running light signal. This headache rack is actually really easy to install and kind of fun actually. It only has 3 parts. First off, you have the headache rack itself right her, which comes already fully assembled. That's part #1.

Part #2 is the rail protectors right her, one on each side. They do require to drill a 5/16" in 2 places on both sides of the truck. Then, you have the wire harness for the lights that typically get ran below the truck. These will splice into your factory wire harness in the truck. With that, we'll go ahead and show you how the headache rack installs onto the truck. We'll go ahead and start off by putting our bed protectors in place. This is the one for the driver side. We'll set it on the rail and then push it as far forward as possible. We'll do that on both sides. With the bed protectors all the way forward and pushed up against the bed, we'll go ahead and get a quick measurement from the center of one stud to the center of a stud across the other side. We're doing this to measure up against the holes or the slots in the headache rail to make sure the measurement comes out the same. We want to be within 1/2". Once we're verified that that fits okay, we can go ahead and start marking and drilling our holes for our bed protectors. I'm going to hold the bed protector in place and with a 5/16" drill bit, we'll go through a square hole and use the bed protector as a template to mark my hole, only 2 places to do it in. Then, we'll go ahead and take our bed protector out of the way and finish up drilling our holes. One hole we drilled out almost lined up with an existing hole in the bed. This one, we're going to use a pilot bit and then go back at it with our larger bit. Next, I'm going to go ahead and cover up our holes with some tape, and I'm going to spray something to protect the metal from underneath. Then using your favorite paint, primer, or even undercoat to protect the metal, we'll spray from the bottom. ON the hole going towards the tab, there's actually a plastic tab for the bed rail cover, and our hole right next to it. Let's just go ahead and break it loose. This will create enough room for our hardware where it should be okay. Let's go ahead and install our hardware, which will be a 5/16" carriage bolt with a 5/16" flat washer and lock washer and nut on the other side. There's 2 sizes of flat washers that come with the kit. Make sure you use the smaller of the 2 sizes here. We're just going to take up they slack, but we wont' tighten them down yet. One is done, let's do the other attachment point. We're done with our passenger side. Let's do the same thing over on our driver side. At this point, we can go ahead and put the headache ra