Roof Rail Angle Bracket

Roof Rail Angle Bracket

Removing

• If angle bracket is to be re-installed, make sure conical washers remain in tolerance compensations in their places.

• Always use a lower and upper conical washer.

• The conical washers must not be interchanged.






Perform the following:

- Remove the headliner.

- Remove the roof rail.

- Remove the nuts - 2 -.

- Remove the angle bracket - 1 and 3 - together with the tolerance compensations - 4 and 5 -.

If the angle bracket is to be reinstalled, secure the tolerance compensations to the angle bracket with commercially available adhesive tape.

Installing

• Do not interchange the conical washers - 3 and 4 -.






If you have secure the conical washers with adhesive tape, remove tape before installation.

- Make sure the conical washers - 4 and 5 - fit properly.

- Place the roof railing - 1 - on the roof - 6 -, then guide the angle bracket - 1 and 3 - over the threaded bolts until the conical washers - 4 and 5 - are centered.

- Tighten the nuts - 2 - until the angle bracket comes in contact with the roof.






- Tighten nuts - 2 -, tightening torque: 10 Nm

- If dents appear around the base of the roof rail, readjust angle bracket.

New angle bracket, installing






- Install the new angle bracket - 1 - until the securing pins - 5 - latch inside the roof - arrows a -.

- Tighten nuts - 2 -, tightening torque: 10 Nm

- If dents appear around the base of the roof rail, readjust angle bracket.

- Remove the securing pin - 4 - upward - arrow b - and remove the securing cap - 3 - downward - arrow c -.