I've got the nerf bars from the e-bay guy, CYC engineering I think. I finally got the truck into a big heated garage to do some work and had trouble with the brackets. The primary brackets bolted to the frame fine, but there are 4 secondary bracket straps that are supposed to connect the big brackets to the body. I played and played and played with those things and couldn't figure out how they connected!

The bars seem OK strong enough without them... but I'm still stumped. Can anyone tell me how these things fit?

thanx...

 

I know what you mean. The drawing is terrible but I just kept flipping the brackets around until it would lay flush with the hanger and oval slot in the body and the holes lined up.

MikeyB

 

OK, so I just keep flipping them...

One hint request: all 4 of those brackets are the same? The big passenger and drivers side brackets are identical too so the drivers side and passengers side installations are flipped?

The picture was no help (in fact two pictures in the instructions contradicted each other). Kind of like a little puzzle.

 

I think so. If I remembered correctly on the driver side the bracket hanger bolts on the bar bracket pointing towards the front. The passenger side is just the opposite, brackets bolt pointing towards the rear of the vehicle.

MikeyB

 

Click on my gallery for installed pics. The brackets went on pretty easily after figuring out where they attached.

 

THANKS! Those pics should do it for me.

 

I finally crawled under the truck and finished the install.
THANKS for the pics. The extra bracket make the bars nice and solid.

I had to laugh when I realized why I didn't figure it out the first time. You need to peel off the black tape that covers the oval hole...

 

Yeah, I guess I should have mentioned to peel of the tape or pull out the black plugs if you had them. Glad to hear it worked out for you.