Sliders - little different than everyone else

[Arya Ebrahimi]

Good execution on the cat skid, I like it!

Any chance you can get a full side shot for perspective? I'm trying to figure out just how long these are relative to the rocker. Do the ends run underneath the flares?

Thanks!

Ary

 

[AKcruiserfreak]

Very nice job, and way to save some $$$. My wife wants some "running boards" for our new 93 and I thing these sliders are the way to go. Thanks for posting the info and pics.

TK

 

[Box Rocket]

Good execution on the cat skid, I like it!

Any chance you can get a full side shot for perspective? I'm trying to figure out just how long these are relative to the rocker. Do the ends run underneath the flares?

Thanks!

Ary

I've got a full side shot at home. The ends do not run under the flares, but just to the edge of them. Maybe a bit shorter than the ideal, but I think it'll be tough to have a rock actually hit the bottom of the flare.

 

[Dusty]

is that 2" piece of strap under the cat all that suports the slider? I would't think that will be strong enough. Jack the front right slider with a high lift at that pont and take a pic of the front pass side wheel off the ground.

 

[Arya Ebrahimi]

I know how the hoop ends short of the straight tube on these, does the straight tube run under the flare, even if behind it? i.e. does the main tube run from wheel well to wheel well?

Thanks!

Ary

 

[Box Rocket]

is that 2" piece of strap under the cat all that suports the slider? I would't think that will be strong enough. Jack the front right slider with a high lift at that pont and take a pic of the front pass side wheel off the ground.

I'll be happy to throw a hilift under it. I'm confident its plenty strong. If the support under the cat was the only support for the slider I could understand the concern, but that's not the case.

Just to clarify, the under-cat support is a 3/8" plate approx 4.5" wide tapered to fit around the two support tubes. I made that plate as short a span as possible to retain as much strength as I could.

With the other gusseted supports on that slider I think it's going to be strong enough, but for you nay-sayers I'll throw a hilift on it and try it out. For what its worth, I can jump up and down on that slider with almost no flex at all. These sliders flex the same as the slee sliders on a friends truck, a small amount of deflection at the front support near the cats.

I know how the hoop ends short of the straight tube on these, does the straight tube run under the flare, even if behind it? i.e. does the main tube run from wheel well to wheel well?

Thanks!

The main tube is just shorter that running the full span of inner fenderwell to inner fenderwell. Probably 2" shorter than that on each end.

 

[alaskacruiser]

Box Rocket- on the Marlin site at http://www.marlincrawler.com/htm/armor.htm
I see:

MC-15201, 58" Standard Bed Pickup or 4Runner, HREW, $135
MC-15202, 67" 1984-1988 Extra Cab Pickup, HREW, $160
MC-15203, 78" 1988-1995 Extra Cab Pickup, HREW, $170

So I take it this is MC-15202?

 

[Flipper]

are these the 67" or the 78" variety?

 

[Box Rocket]

To be honest I'm not 100% sure. When I won these from Trail Gear, I was told they were for an extra-cab minitruck but would fit the 80 perfectly. The fit great, but I never actually measured them. My gut tells me they are the 67" ones, but I can measure them tonight.

 

[Dusty]

sounds beefy enough. If you get a pic up there will be lots of believers

 

[fjdemon]

Could you make these work on a 60? Just curious

 

[alaskacruiser]

bump awaiting more pics

 

[Mars]

Bump....

Any luck on the high-lift pics? I would love to see how much they flex with the cat attachment point. Pics of how the sliders terminate into the flares would be great as well. Well done man!

 

[agent orange]

Could you make these work on a 60? Just curious

Yes, search for trail gear sliders in the 60 section. Couple people put them on a couple months back.

 

[Atoyot1031]

Has anyone tried these sliders yet as a bolt on? (Possibly even using the mounting plates from Trail Gear.) A buddy & I are going to order up a couple pair. I really like the idea for $$$ reasons, and my wife said that she still needs somewhere to step to load the kids. So this is perfect>

 

[Walking Eagle]

Has anyone tried these sliders yet as a bolt on? (Possibly even using the mounting plates from Trail Gear.) A buddy & I are going to order up a couple pair. I really like the idea for $$$ reasons, and my wife said that she still needs somewhere to step to load the kids. So this is perfect>

No reason you couldn't make them bolt on. Get some 3"x3/16 or 3" x 1/4" steel, get some angle iron to help with the plates staying on, ect. ect.

 

[Prophecy]

Did ya ever measure these out to see which ones they were, 67" or 78"?

 

[Box Rocket]

Yep. 67"

 

[Atoyot1031]

Something to consider. The 67" sliders are a couple inches short IMHO. I'm pretty sure that Adam at 4xinnovations.com would be willing to make some a little longer for ya.

 

[Box Rocket]

Something to consider. The 67" sliders are a couple inches short IMHO. I'm pretty sure that Adam at 4xinnovations.com would be willing to make some a little longer for ya.

This could be true. Optimally you would want the main channel of the slider to run from the rear of the front wheel well to the front of the rear wheel well. These 67" ones do in fact come up just short of that. But for the cost it was a trade off I was willing to make. More importantly, the likelihood of me finding a rock that finds it's way between my tire and the slider is relatively slim. So again, it was a trade-off I was willing to make.

Here is a not-so-great photo of the sliders on my truck. I have marked with orange the leading and trailing edge of the sliders so that you can see just how much of the rocker panel they leave uncovered at the wheel wells. HTH.