I guess I'm a little confused. I removed the boards from our EXPY EL due to their narrow width which made my everyone feel uncomfortable when they got into the vehicle, feeling like they would slip off. Also, the left board had somehow been bent right where one would step getting into the vehicle. I'm assuming the PO must have been pretty hefty or something. I tried to straighten it out with a jack but with no luck. We prefer the look of the truck w/o the boards but I wasn't aware just how much the belly hung down which was covered so, thinking it would be easy, I have been on the hunt for some 'rock-rail' type 4" bars without much luck.
Extremistn09,
On the nerf bars shown above, I'm assuming you ordered for an F-150 for the EL? I guess I wasn't aware the hardware was the same and they interchanged. I tried doing a search based on your description but only came up with the F- series trucks.