How to Mount Skateboard Trucks 1

Video Transcript

"Mounting the truck to the board. Now, that you've got your grip tape on your board and you've chosen your trucks, and you have mounting hardware, that are the right size for the trucks that you've chosen, you'll take your truck and you'll take your mounting hardware and you're going to want to put them through the board and mount the truck onto the board. So, what you might want to do is turn the board over and put four bolts into the skateboard, one at a time. Now, you'll flip the board over and hold the bolts on there somehow. And then, you'll take your truck and you'll put the truck on. You'll put it through and hold the bolts on. Now, what you want to make sure you do, is that the front of the truck is pointed in the right direction. Trucks are on a square hole setting, so you could accidentally put this on the wrong way. So, you want to make sure that your kingpin is facing inward, otherwise your trucks are going to turn exactly the opposite direction that you want them to. So, now that you have your truck mounted properly, you're going to put the bolts in while holding the other side, and you're just going to finger tighten them not too hard, but just start it, and you're going to put all four on, in a row. Now, you're only going to want to finger tighten the bolts because you're going to want to get all four on at once, so that the truck is mounted on and it's not going anywhere. It's not going to shake loose."