Dare44

Have had my trail gear sliders sitting in my garage for a while finally got around to welding them on.




mall crawler test ha


without pressure on it


i had some help with the welding but they hold great

Elton

nice but you need some better tires

Dare44

you pay for it and i will put them on lol

2000t4rAKS

Sweet sliders, how much did you pay for the welding job???
I see you are in Grass Valley, are there any good, honest reputable shops up there that do work on Runners or Toyotas in general?

dirtoyboy

nice...any close ups of those welds?

something dont look quite right....the pic is really small

theres a big difference between the weld holding with a jack under it and dropping it a few feet onto the slider

WCorbett

My Dad and I helped him weld them on with our welder. welds arent perfect but between paint and electrocoat they are pretty good welds. They are very strong to.

WCorbett

Yes there are. 4X4 Labs is mostly toyota and does very good work.
WFO concepts does very good work. They do alot of extreme stuff but also alot of more typical rock crawler rigs.
Another one is Twisted Metal Fab.

Ian Rogers

those weld are going to break. DID you guys clean the frame rail, and the slider base, they are cold welds and look contaminated. Sorry to break the bad news, they are going to fall off with time, or flex up in to the body. I would grind them off and get them welded on right.

Dare44

i will get more pics they are good welds just bloby welds, they are painted now and i am going to go test them tomorrow wheeling

dirtoyboy

x2 I'm seeing some contaminants and maybe even warping on that frame gussett....pic is really just too small to tell though

Dare44

yeah the only camera i have is my phone, the frame and gussets were grinded and some spots i couldnt get i used a wire brush to get in. thanks for all the input on these

rngrchad

I'm sure those sliders are never going to see offroad-induced trail testing.
In that case, those welds will work great for a really overkill step-bar. I'm thinking the most force going to be placed on them is from passengers getting in and out of the suv.
I will say: At least they look asthetically pleasing to the eye

Dare44

first off my truck does see off road that was the reason for them, i wheel it almost every weekend going out tomorrow. and here is more pics i looked at that weld and it looks like that pic just made it look bad here are some more they will hold. i did the welds on the gussets but i suck at vertical welding so i had wcorbett's dad do the welds cuz he is really good, he has built alot of things on there jeep and it is awsome, 90% custom, even made a custom frame that is incredible so i trust his welds greatly. the blobs u see are from the tacks i did with a smaller welder with very small wire in it just to get the measurements right so we could get right on it when his dad had time and not have to do it there

Dare44

so are those welds ok do u think? i hope they are it was just the lighting on the first pic i think

WCorbett

The welds look even better in the pic than I thought lol. I think theyll be fine idk whats up everyones ass. And what the hell makes rngrchad think it doesnt see offroad thats just a stupid thing to say. we go offroad every chance we get.

rngrchad

Alright WCorbett, my bad. I came across a little overly critical....that suv just looks extremely clean. The fact that it has open diffs and street slicks may have played a roll in my post also, I mean c'mon the pic of the undercarriage shows the front skid plate as straight as the day it came off the showroom floor; maybe I'm just in an unusually critical mood tonight. I hope this answer's your question as to why "in the hell I think it doesn't see offroad". On a lighter note those welds look fine in your latter post.

Ohio4R

Hopefully i can grab some sliders soon!

rngrchad

You ought to save yourself two hundred dollars and go to your local steel shop. Buy about 18ft of 1/8 walled square tubing and weld some up. Cost ya maybe 75 bucks total, and will be bomber strong. Get ya some 1/4" plate steel to use as scabs on the frame for added surface contact....bam you got yourself bombproof sliders. If you can't weld, get one of your buddies to. If you ever make it to central ohio, I'll weld'm up for ya.

Dare44

i got to test out my sliders to day, o and soccer mom suv my butt

WCorbett

His even flexes better than mine and mines not stock so HA to all you haters.