Sliders - little different than everyone else

[cybrstar]

I followed this build and bought from Marlin, too. I decided to make mine bolt-on and used a u-bolt design using George's drawings at the frame mounts. Worked out very well. I was able to use the 12" legs included for 4 of the mounts (trimmed to fit), the front ones are much longer. To go under the cat, I used round tube, but in 2 pieces welded to a 1/2" barstock directly under/between the cats so it wouldn't go any lower than the cat. From this would be easy to build a cat skid similar to the metal tech sliders, but I haven't done it yet. I also trimmed the pinch weld to put the sliders as high as possible. In doing so, I had to notch and reweld the middle leg at an angle to clear everything. I didn't use the included gussets as they are pretty tiny. I made my own from 1/8" flatbar to extend more of the length of each leg, as those long front legs seemed like it could flex a bunch and I don't have much tolerance for flex with the pinch weld gone. They got a couple scrapes at CM, but I found all the other stuff underneath was likely to drag first. Didn't lay on them hard to see how much they move yet.

Good luck on yours and thanks for the idea Box Rocket!

Any Pics?

And whats George's drawing?

 

[97 40th]

Very Nice!!!!!! I know what I will be doing for sliders when it comes time! Thanks for sharing.

 

[hawaiicruz]

Any Pics?

And whats George's drawing?

George's 80 Series Land Cruiser and Nissan MQ Patrol

 

[2manycruisers]

I'm out of town for another week, I'll try to get pics when I'm home. George's sliders are nice, too, but I think these are lighter and I don't want to add more weight than I have to.

Any Pics?

And whats George's drawing?

 

[jb1dsl]

Dang, About to start on my trail gear sliders and the pics are gone!!

 

[Box Rocket]

Sorry. My photobucket account exceeded my allotted bandwidth. The pics will be back up next week when my bandwidth usage resets. If you need specific pics of something PM me and I can probably email them to you.

 

[latinoguy]

for pics, you can search my sliders thread as well. I went with george's plates for a bolt on solution, 4x innovation sliders.... Recently I added some reinforcement plates on the arms...These things should be able to handle most of what I may throw at them.

 

[2manycruisers]

I guess I'm a little late with my pics, but here are a couple. I cut my pinch welds to put these as high as I could. I welded 3 pieces of 3/16" barstock for the piece under the cat because I didn't have any 1/2". The middle leg I notched and angled, you can see the weld a couple inches away from the slider. I put too much heat on the leg with the 9/16" flat, so it bowed up enough to touch my rocker panel when installed; I need to remove it and bend it back down. I haven't put them through any real hard-core test yet, but they are scraped up and I'm happy so far.

 

[wayneosan]

You guys really get into this. I like this thread. Subscribed. So i could pretty much drop the side of the truck on a rock and it would hold?

 

[spencertron]

question for ya, i'm thinking about doing a simple cat skid very similar to yours. how has yours held up? thanks a ton

 

[Box Rocket]

Wow, bringing a thread back from the dead. PM sent. No issues with the sliders going on 7 years now.

 

[Slabsides45]

Since we've got frankenthread up and walking, any chance you can repost some of your pics of attachment points, etc., BR?

 

[Box Rocket]

I don't think I even have any of the old pics anymore. Sorry. Best I can even find is this.


Frame plates on all but the one under the cat. There just wasn't room with the side by side cats on the '93.

 

[Box Rocket]

No pics of the mounts but I found a couple other pics of the sliders.

 

[Slabsides45]

Thanks for the pics!

I see now that 4x4 innovations has an entry as well, all in the $175 range plus gussets, etc. I don't see much difference between any of the 3. Anyone disagree?