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There are many types
of ATV nerf bars on the market right
now, and it can be hard to choose which
one is best. For Project Wide Open YFZ,
I chose the AC Racing Pro Peg nerf bars
for a couple of reasons. The first was
for the new foot pegs that come included
with it. They are much bigger than stock
pegs.The AC pegs also have more rows of
teeth and bigger teeth, plus a kickup on
the end to help hold your feet in place.
Another advantage is the built-in heel
guards. These look a LOT nicer than the
stock ones, and also make it much easier
to remove them since they aren't a
separate piece. If you are riding
competitively (and if you are shopping
for nerfs, you probably ARE), all these
features can mean a big advantage for
solid footing.
Another thing I liked
about them was the netting. Unlike some
of the other brands, the netting does
not attach to the frame. This allows you
to use the stock belly plate or any
plate that has fins on the side if you
want, plus it makes the netting much
easier to install.
All those features,
plus how great they look, made my
decision to go with the AC nerfs much
easier.
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The first
thing you need to do is to remove the bottom
front motor frame-mount bolt on both sides
of the frame. Next remove your footpegs and
heelguards. The footpegs are held on with
two bolts and can be removed easily. The
heelguards have a couple more bolts that you
need to remove to detach them from the
frame. You don't have to remove the metal
reinforcements from the heelguards to do
this step. Just detach both of them from the
frame and take them off as one piece. Once
you have those removed on both sides you are
ready to start installing your new pegs. I
recommend you do the left side first; it
will make it easier in the end.
The black mounting tube is the first
thing that needs to go on. It installs where
the footpeg used to be. Only tighten the
bolts enough to keep it there - trust me -
you will want it as loose as you can get
later on. With that in, place the footpeg of
the new nerf slide right onto the black
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The next step
is to attach it to the frame with the bolt
and spacer supplied. Make sure you use the
shorter of the bolts that are given to you.
For the next thing, I found that I had to
tighten up the bottom of the black mount so
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To help hold
on the nerfs, you are supposed to drill a
hole through the peg and the black mount and
put a bolt in there. I eventually drilled
the hole out with the correct size (3/8”),
but first I used a center punch to give me a
place to start and drilled it out with a
smaller drill bit because it was hard to get
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After that is
drilled, you can put in the longer bolts
supplied to hold it on. Loosen the bottom
bolt of the black thing back up after you
are done drilling.
With this done and everything still
loose, you can do everything for the other
side.
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Make sure that the male
and female ends fit tightly together. When
trying to install the bolt to the frame on
the second side, you might need a second
person to kind of twist and pull on it while
you put the bolt in. Don't worry if the nerf
is at weird angle when the bolt goes in - it
should go back into place once the bolt is
in.
With both sides on you can
start tightening bolts up. Start with the
frame bolts and then the rest of them. If
you tighten them before this, you probably
found out that the stuff doesn't fit
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With all that done you can
now start putting in your netting. The
netting is very easy to install once you
figure out which direction it goes, because
all the end straps won't reach if you have
it the wrong way. They give you instructions
of how to weave the nets through the little
mounts, but I created my own way so that the
tails of the net came out on bottom instead
of top.
This set of nerfs looks
and works awesome. If you don't want to go
with the full-on set with pro pegs and built
in heel guards, AC also makes a couple other
versions. One includes the pegs and not the
heel guards, but they are moved down and
back ½” like many of the pros and racers
have changed to. They also make a nerf on
its own, no pegs and no heel guards on them.
Pick your favorite net color - blue, black
or red.
So, no matter what you
want for nerfs, AC racing is a great choice
of products.
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