Iron Pig Offroad Sliders

usmcruiser · 01-09-06, 12:07 PM

I will be aquiring a 55 come March and I was noticing that the rockers were a little rusty and bent.

I was wondering if anybody has installed the Iron Pig Offroad sliders?

How did it go?

Do you still like them?

Are they sturdy enough?

Do they just weld to the body in place of the current rockers?

Thank guys,

FJBen · 01-09-06, 02:51 PM

I have given a lot of thought to using those sliders just to help out the clearance issues. I think a few people are using them with good luck.

So what 55 are you getting???

Wayneraintree · 01-09-06, 04:21 PM

I know a couple people with them and they work well, great pig specific product and nice to support the people making them : )

tfdcruiser · 01-09-06, 07:03 PM

where do they attach to the body? just to the sheet metal? do they replace the inner door jamb too? can you do the same thing with 2x3 tube stock, you would just not have the contoured edge.

fj55-100 · 01-09-06, 08:44 PM

Great product !
they will either go over your existing body pnls or you can cut out the old ones and weld theis in place http://www.birfield.com/modules.php?...m.php&page=4ce .
I decided to put mine over the stock ones and fabed up some corners and added a @&@&@&@& load of braces .

surfpig · 01-09-06, 08:56 PM

Nice install, Evan! Did you just through-bolt them to the rockers? I'm not sure I have enough metal left on mine to do that... sure would hide a lot of rust, though...

nial

fj55-100 · 01-09-06, 09:21 PM

Kinda - I Foarmed the edges to fit the contour of the body and added nutserts to the body to hold it in place and reused the ft 10mm one that holds on the bottem of the fender.
Then i added way too many braces that also go to the body in 4 places , and even added a small jungle gym in front for max anti rock sheilding .
Nial did you see the rear quarter pnl guards that i finished . I put thoes pics up on birfield.com as well under the bumpers section.

Evan

fj55-100 · 01-09-06, 09:28 PM

this one

fj55-100 · 01-09-06, 09:30 PM

i found this pic also

surfpig · 01-09-06, 10:06 PM

Thanks for the info, Evan. Clean looking. Yeah, I saw the corner guards. Mine aren't worth guarding (I might fit up a net to keep the Bondo from littering the trail...

). Toying with trimming the rear fenders a bit (Pighead wants to help), but I'm on the edge of the resto vs. trail-ready conundrum, and I'd want to have a "stock-looking" mod, I think. Besides, we spent ALL our money on a major remodel/resto of our house last year, so options are slim right now.

Sorry, did I hijack?

usmcruiser · 01-10-06, 05:30 AM

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Originally Posted by surfpig

Sorry, did I hijack?

YES

dick.

Quote:

Originally Posted by fj55-100

kinda - I Foarmed the edges to fit the contour of the body and added nutserts to the body to hold it in place and reused the ft 10mm one that holds on the bottem of the fender.
Then i added way too many braces that also go to the body in 4 places , and even added a small jungle gym in front for max anti rock sheilding .
Nial did you see the rear quarter pnl guards that i finished . I put thoes pics up on birfield.com as well under the bumpers section.

Evan

That is a nice install. Do you have a link to the pics on Birfield? For some reason I have a hard time nagagating that site. Maybee it is just me.

fj55-100 · 01-10-06, 09:24 PM

start here and go to the bumpers page .
http://www.birfield.com/modules.php?...lbumListPage=2

FirstToy · 01-10-06, 09:36 PM

That looks awesome Evan
the front mount is really trick!

yooper · 01-13-06, 08:57 PM

I have the prototypes. They are extremely strong.

RUSH55 · 01-13-06, 10:06 PM

We need some new pics Yoop!

Lucy_FJ55 · 01-14-06, 09:45 AM

Yooper's pig was posted here yesterday for his example...but now its gone!

Who hid it?

Uh, there it is. (picture re-appeared!)

surfpig · 01-14-06, 10:09 AM

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Originally Posted by RUSH55

We need some new pics Yoop!

I second that. Yooper, you cut the rockers, yes?

"Dick".

yooper · 01-14-06, 04:39 PM

Not me. It was done by Lance himself two PO's ago, when Todd K owned it. But yes, the rockers are cut. Let me see if I can find pics of any of that. If anyone else cares to wade through them, all of the PO's pics (TJK and Casey Campbell were my PO's) plus a few of mine are here: http://www.rooney.org/tlc/FJ55/

yooper · 01-14-06, 04:48 PM

some pics from that archive that might be useful, or maybe not. Lance has refined these a LOT since then:

scottryana · 01-14-06, 05:54 PM

Just so that no one gets confused. Yopper's rockers aren't the Iron Pig Offroad rocker reproductions. Yoppers rockers are 4x4 with steps. The reproduction rockers are formed 3/16" steel with the proper curve, they look very stock but provide a strong rocker for steps to be welded to.

A good example is Clay's 55
http://www.ironpigoffroad.com/images...m/fullfj55.jpg

Ryan.