Interest in sliders?

Would you buy sliders for your 70-series?

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Gauging interest here on sliders for your 70-series. I think we would start with 77/76-series and Troopy. 73-series to follow.

Price point is probably around $1500 a set.

Cheers
 
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From my experience of building the sliders for the 73/74 series I have found out that there are a lot of differences between the various power sources and frames depending on light or heavy duty . The exhausts seem to run different enough between the variants to interfere with the fitment. When Jason build the original slider I was reproducing he build it for a BJ73 or BJ74 , that exact slider would not fit on a HZJ73 or a FJ73 without reworking it . For the 76/77 it will be easier as these are all 1HZ so the only difference would be crossmember location depending on automatic vs manual . On the troopies you probably have 3 different engine versions and the same amount of transmissions to deal with .

If customers show up with their cruisers to your shop it would be easy enough for you to get it perfect . Shipping them out welding at a die made for a slightly different model might be getting frustrated customers .

Both Trail Tailor and Metaltech have build 7x sliders in the past but stopped offering these , probably for the reasons I just mentioned .
 
wardharris said:
Ian -
Shopping for slider/step unit to offer access and protection. I have a FZJ79 and looking at frames, there may be commonality with 75 utes.
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And if you want a stock truck (not 80 swap) it will be here in Boise mid May.
 
joekatana said:
From my experience of building the sliders for the 73/74 series I have found out that there are a lot of differences between the various power sources and frames depending on light or heavy duty . The exhausts seem to run different enough between the variants to interfere with the fitment. When Jason build the original slider I was reproducing he build it for a BJ73 or BJ74 , that exact slider would not fit on a HZJ73 or a FJ73 without reworking it . For the 76/77 it will be easier as these are all 1HZ so the only difference would be crossmember location depending on automatic vs manual . On the troopies you probably have 3 different engine versions and the same amount of transmissions to deal with .

If customers show up with their cruisers to your shop it would be easy enough for you to get it perfect . Shipping them out welding at a die made for a slightly different model might be getting frustrated customers .

Both Trail Tailor and Metaltech have build 7x sliders in the past but stopped offering these , probably for the reasons I just mentioned .
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Thanks for your input man, I appreciate it!

For me, doing a little something to your exhaust seems very easy. If that is a deal breaker for people, no worries. Transmission cross member locations are certainly a concern.

Cheers
 
SNLC said:
Thanks for your input man, I appreciate it!

For me, doing a little something to your exhaust seems very easy. If that is a deal breaker for people, no worries. Transmission cross member locations are certainly a concern.

Cheers
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Ian: I have sliders for a BJ70 here. I can provide measurements/pics if you need for mocking up purposes for the shorties when you get to that point.
 
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