here are my homefab edition of George's design, with outter tubing added. I have beat on them pretty good and have some bends in them.
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Alex, what's the spec on the tubing?
Arya,
I think they are 1/8" IIRC.... guy who bent them was building a roll cage and some sliders for his buggy and had extra tube laying around, that's what we used.
I think they are 1/8" IIRC.... guy who bent them was building a roll cage and some sliders for his buggy and had extra tube laying around, that's what we used.
I used .240 wall DOM and .250 wall rectangular. Each side weighs about 85 pounds.
If you're ripping slider steel open with an 80 that's using 1/8" wall thickness, then you're wheeling way harder than the average Joe on this board 
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Theres no average Joes on this board, they're over on the cookie cutter jeep forum
QUOTE]Theres no average Joes on this board, they're over on the cookie cutter jeep forum
fourtrax
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too summarize the good advice i received when i was building mine.. Unless your cruising the mall or fire trails then 3/16" min and leave room for them to flex. because they will....
Build me a set... I'll bend them.
perhaps "dent" them. but a true "bend" is unlikely.
think about how strong 1/8" wall sliders are. you have a 1/8" tube connected to another 1/8" tube (one tube is the slider and the 2nd is the step) by 3-4 connecting pieces.
istill have my heavy sliders in the shed and there are a few dings in the steps. they were sq40. my current sliders are DOM 1/8" wall 1.75"D with 4 outriggers (outriggers are 3/16 DOM). they are scratched greatly but havn't even dinged. yet
soneone please post up there dented sliders. i know it is poss but not very. lets see em.
I've bent 1 3/4 .120 HREW sliders on my 'light' mini-truck. By bent, I mean the center of them was 1/2" higher than the ends. I've also dented the crap out of them.
Would DOM have held up better? Most definitely. Would it have prevented all bends/dents? I'm not sure.
On a rig that weighs at least 2k lbs more, I'm going with .188 wall.
For the record, the hits that bent the sliders and/or dented them were climbs where I was hammering on it up a notch and the sliders were essentially dropping 2' onto rocks when the truck was trying to breakover the climb.
Would DOM have held up better? Most definitely. Would it have prevented all bends/dents? I'm not sure.
On a rig that weighs at least 2k lbs more, I'm going with .188 wall.
For the record, the hits that bent the sliders and/or dented them were climbs where I was hammering on it up a notch and the sliders were essentially dropping 2' onto rocks when the truck was trying to breakover the climb.
1/2" does count as a bend.
one way to make sliders stronger is to angle the step tube up from the tube under the rocker panel. the more the step tube is angled up from the rocker tube the better the rocker tube will resist the bend.
if the rocker tube and the step tube are well connected you have to bend both to taco the slider
one way to make sliders stronger is to angle the step tube up from the tube under the rocker panel. the more the step tube is angled up from the rocker tube the better the rocker tube will resist the bend.
if the rocker tube and the step tube are well connected you have to bend both to taco the slider
FWIW, CDan's wife did some sort of damage to a metal tech slider on the Rubicon. I think anything will bend if you romp on it hard enough. The frame on an 80 is pretty thin and malleable, so I wonder if by making the slider too strong that you could eventually cause the frame to bend and warp where it is connected to the slider.
Really? why not? It was enough to keep my doors from opening ;p
Mind you, that was also from one hit, so if I were to do similar things repeatedly they would have gone to hell. I ended up cutting them off and replacing with DOM, so we'll see what happens.
Flank
American by Birth, Texan by the grace of God.
So, if the consensus is the that 1/8th is ok for sliders... Did I go overboard using 1/4" for my bolt on tire carrier project? Perhaps so...
Flank
American by Birth, Texan by the grace of God.
How about some 1" angle welded under the bottom side of the tube? I have never seen anyone do this before, but have seen them do this on trailing arms for crawlers for reinforcement. Would be light, help avoid the dents / bends?
half inch does count.
lets see if DOM makes any diff. i dont think its that much stronger than hrew
I just got done building a set for mine... used 1/4" wall tubing for right underneath the rockers, everything else I used 3/16"
Totally read that as "doesn't" 
Oh, and for the record, it was a dual tube slider like you can get from Trail-gear or Marlin. Bent both tubes...
We'll see about DOM, I revamped the design so I wouldn't hit them as much, so that will probably help too ;p
Pics, drawings, plans?
I can get you plans/meausrements/specs if needed... pics are on my build. I ended up spending WAY more time building these than i figured.... but it was my first set. I'd guess around 30 to 40 hours total from start to finish.
https://forum.ih8mud.com/80-series-tech/278680-corys-94-fzj80-build.html
https://forum.ih8mud.com/80-series-tech/278680-corys-94-fzj80-build.html
