Home-Made Nerf Bars -Lots of Pics!

No, I'm not seriously considering smokestacks...or am I?
Check out my coming-along SNERF (Some New Effects Requiring Fudging)-bar for the passenger side.


It will snug right up against the cab bottom, and be WAY tucked-in.
The length is 81.5" overall, with a 72" center section. This is all 3" ID ABS plumbing pipe.
Total cost per side: about $22.00.

Uber-simple mountings, made from .75" i.d. PVC. These will get filled with epoxy and foo-foo'd black to hide them. Overall length of these are 3.75", center-to-center hole distance is 2.75".


I filled the two white .75" PVC tubes with polyester resin and re-drilled the holes. It'll take direct hit from a Hyundai to break them now.
The bar mounts VERY solidly now, I'm not even worried about it vibrating and making noise.


If you go to step on it, you're gonna feel it flex slightly, but that's about it. At worst, you'd bend the mount bolts, and they could be bent right back. The truck is so low at stock ride, I really don't see anybody needing to use a step to get in.

Virtually everybody who ever rides in my truck is old enough to recall a side-pipe ankle burn. If I leave these painted black, they'll ward off any contact all all.


They still need sanding/finishing.







Not easy to get a clear shot, but the bolt going into the tube has a nyloc nut on the end, inside the pipe. Visible on the pipe is a "keyhole slot" that allows the nut to be put in, and then the mount bolt slid into place.


And painted/installed.







 

Procedure, remove Colorado/Canyon center armrest:

1: Break each plastic side cover off the supports. This is simple to do, after you get it off, you'll see how easy Chevy made this for you. If they didn't break on removal, you can hack at them with a paper shear or axe.

2: Unscrew each TORX bolt from each side, again simple, a hammer and soft-tipped screwdriver, and a big shot of tranny lube should get them out.

3: Take the "easy two bolts" out of the lower outside of the seat. You will swear these just fall out in your hand...

4: Because the two bolts INSIDE the seatbelt opening are a major *** and require every curse word you've learned to this point. If you get winded, have somebody else complain about when are you gonna vacuum the floormats, this will help.

5: Toss armrest in recycling can. Hey, there's room for my frikken' elbow now.

I should point out just how MUCH I'm gonna miss the armrest:
There were 28 (I counted) red-hots in a clump, fifteen toothpicks, $2.68 in small change, and a melted Viper Red Lipstick* in there.

*Honest Wifey, it's one of your colors, you just forgot...