My apologies, but no certified welder I know (and I know hundreds) would ever produce such sub par looking welds, much less post pictures of them for the world to see. You either know how to weld or you don't because from those pictures...you don't.

Post your pictures over on Pirate4x4.com and see what they say.

 

i dare you to post that in pirate

 

ohh pirate would eat him alive... dont do it man...

 

yeah im not going to and it was a really hard weld to get to plus if i was any hotter i would have burned though and i did a few times lol but off to shoot the new toy i mean gun laters all

 

The good thing about posting them on the world wide web, though, is you get input. Brian has good input. I'd say he's got the experience necessary to give an honest critique.

The other good thing is that if they do break on a trail....well, you'll know how good they are and you can always weld'em back up even better. The trail be the proving ground, eh? What the hell...it's a beater, after all, and you're planning on another frame, anyway.....right?

 

if you ever put any weight on those sliders they are going to bend and smash your quarter panel. Did you ever take any kind of structural design or metal fab class???

one word: TRIANGULATION

 

Yeah.....that's what I've been trying to say in a round about way. They need more support. Triangles make the best.

 

maybe allan should get rid of the 4runner body and build a set of monkey bars around the passenger compartment?

 

im thinking on the frame swap still yes so the frame patch is just for now as fo rthe sliders like i said i just put them together and just slapped them on i was running out of time so i just slapped them on but yeah when i do take it on the trail i will know how they are but i did use the over ehad crane and slid the whole truck over by just the slider so i think there on there good enough but when that tree comes up and i slide into it ill know right lol i think i might just back into a tree to see how strong they are now lol