3 Nerf Bars replacement parts.

[Caveman Jim]

I've got a 2012 F-350 with 3" Nerf Bars on them, I do not know when they were installed.
I am looking to replace the plastic pads because they are deteriorating and curling on the ends. Not the best of pics but you can get an idea that they look like they curled up like the wicked witch…
As always, any help is much appreciated.

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[gmerkt]

Huh. I'm still learning. I didn't know these "step bars" were called "nerf bars" now. When I was a kid in the 1950's, nerf bars went on the front and maybe back of hot rod roadster type vehicles. Little ovals or "S" shapes.

 

[Stomper]

I've got a 2012 F-350 with 3" Nerf Bars on them, I do not know when they were installed.
I am looking to replace the plastic pads because they are deteriorating and curling on the ends. Not the best of pics but you can get an idea that they look like they curled up like the wicked witch…
As always, any help is much appreciated.

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Maybe use a heat gun and gently heat them up until they are pliable, then use some large worm-drive hose-clamps to hold them down at each end until they cool down and hold shape again on their own.

Huh. I'm still learning. I didn't know these "step bars" were called "nerf bars" now. When I was a kid in the 1950's, nerf bars went on the front and maybe back of hot rod roadster type vehicles. Little ovals or "S" shapes.

Nerf bars are typically a 3″ round tube that runs the length of the cab or from wheel to wheel.

 

[Nosferatu]

Too bad you aren't local anymore, you can have the ones off my '13 F350.

 

[Joe13]

I've got a 2012 F-350 with 3" Nerf Bars on them, I do not know when they were installed.
I am looking to replace the plastic pads because they are deteriorating and curling on the ends. Not the best of pics but you can get an idea that they look like they curled up like the wicked witch…
As always, any help is much appreciated.

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It's your trucks way of regretting the warmer temps….


Glad your still on the forum!

 

[dangerranger60]

There should be a name in the center of the pad.

These are SmittyBuilt.

Sure Steps Replacement Step Pad w/ Clips - Smittybilt

www.smittybilt.com

 

[Caveman Jim]

It's your trucks way of regretting the warmer temps….


Glad your still on the forum!

It's pissed I left it up there…

I'm still here just not much worthy stuff going on down here to post up.

 

[Caveman Jim]

There should be a name in the center of the pad.

These are SmittyBuilt.

Sure Steps Replacement Step Pad w/ Clips - Smittybilt

www.smittybilt.com

Good Lawdy, $33 each….

 

[dangerranger60]

I got mine at 4 Wheel Parts for about half that. DR

 

[Mrmerlinn]

I'm with gmerkt. Them ain't " nerf bars"!

 

[made in china]

They're called side steps in the industry. More specifically "tubular side steps".

 

[Caveman Jim]

Ok ok ok, in a Joe Pesci voice… then why do the manufacturers themselves call then "nerf bars"?

 

[Mrmerlinn]

Probably because they're made in China and what the hell did they know?

 

[64MercurysRule]

Ok ok ok, in a Joe Pesci voice… then why do the manufacturers themselves call then "nerf bars"?

" 33 dollars ... They can go NERF themselves ....."

JOE

 

[made in china]

Ok ok ok, in a Joe Pesci voice… then why do the manufacturers themselves call then "nerf bars"?

Huh, never heard that before, we used to call the "roll bars", popular in the truck beds of the 70s and 80s, nerf bars. Probably wrong too.

I've only owned a truck since 2007, never saw a manufacturer or enthusiast call step bars "nerf". Could be a generational thing? At my work, the really old school guys refer to a sledgehammer as a "single jack". They're pretty old dudes, but I'm old too, I still call a couch "Davenport"

 

[Stomper]

Huh, never heard that before, we used to call the "roll bars", popular in the truck beds of the 70s and 80s, nerf bars. Probably wrong too.

I've only owned a truck since 2007, never saw a manufacturer or enthusiast call step bars "nerf". Could be a generational thing? At my work, the really old school guys refer to a sledgehammer as a "single jack". They're pretty old dudes, but I'm old too, I still call a couch "Davenport"

A single jack is a short handled hammer with a 2 - 4 lbs head on it and is used with one hand. (I frequently use a 2-lbs single jack at work)

A sledge hammer is a long handled hammer with a 4 - 12 lbs head on it and is used (typically) with both hands swinging it overhead and/or over one's shoulder.


A couch is a sofa.... Davenport is/was the name of a sofa manufacturing company and the name became a generic reference for a sofa (my maternal grandma used the term frequently)... much like a "Crescent Wrench" for all adjustable wrenches, and "Vice-Grip" for all adjustable locking pliers.

Also... it seems a few folks around here are confusing Nerf bars with Nerd bars.

 

[Caveman Jim]

Huh, never heard that before, we used to call the "roll bars", popular in the truck beds of the 70s and 80s, nerf bars. Probably wrong too.

I've only owned a truck since 2007, never saw a manufacturer or enthusiast call step bars "nerf". Could be a generational thing? At my work, the really old school guys refer to a sledgehammer as a "single jack". They're pretty old dudes, but I'm old too, I still call a couch "Davenport"

A simple search will reveal the truth, they is called nerf bars.

FTR, I've owned trucks since 1978, I'm older…

Wanna hear something funny? Ask a true southerner and a yankee to say "nerf bar".

 

[Stomper]

A simple search will reveal the truth, they is called nerf bars.

FTR, I've owned trucks since 1978, I'm older…

Wanna hear something funny? Ask a true southerner and a yankee to say "nerf bar".

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Even funnier... ask an Aussie.

 

[made in china]

A simple search will reveal the truth, they is called nerf bars.

FTR, I've owned trucks since 1978, I'm older…

Wanna hear something funny? Ask a true southerner and a yankee to say "nerf bar".

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Yeah, you're right! I just checked for my Nissan, and they're called nerf too.

I guess that must mean they "nerf" your ground clearance?