Build a Skateboard: Attach Trucks to Deck

Video Transcript

"The next step is assembling your trucks and your wheels to the deck. This here is Royal trucks. Its a pretty good company. They are producing Crailtap which produces a lot of pretty good stuff. So, I choose Royal. Next you take your skateboard, and make sure that your trucks are facing this way, because if they are facing this way you will turn the opposite way. You will lean left and turn right. You do not want that. You want this piece and this piece facing each other. First since you have your nuts already on the deck and the bolts laid on there poking through. I find my bolts and hand screw them on their just to get it started. You have eight bolts. Four for each truck. Hand screw them on. Second truck make sure its facing the same way. Second truck you are doing pretty much the same thing as the first. Line it on, poke though. Sometimes, from the factory you'll get some paint which clutters the hole. So kind of a trick to do it is to turn your board upside down. With the end of of a screwdriver or hammer you'll have to kind of manually poke it through, because sometimes the paint seeps through the holes and just makes it harder so you just do that. And put on your eighth bolt. And I use a drill, you can use a screwdriver or you can use a drill, its up to you. And you get your skate tool. you place it on the bolt which holds it in place. This is a drill with a Phillips head on it. Make sure your drill is going right and not left. Then you put them on. These are short bolts that doesn't require too much drilling. Our drill has a setting so you can't strip it. It just makes that clicking noise when its in. Its good to go. Some bolts fell off. Hold in place. You normally want your bolts pretty sunk into your wood like this and thats it."