Here are some pics of them they are rough I still have to paint them.





They cost me $50 in steel to make I did some of the welding and cutting.

 

Nice!!

 

Yeah i need to get motivated and build mine...how'd you do the bends?? They'll look great with paint.

 

They are built out of 3/16" wall materials as well as the outer tube. Plenty strong we used a harbour freight tube bender for the bends. My friend has a Miller 220V welder so welding these on was cake.

Updated pics they are now painted I think I spent about 30 min per slider sanding them down to get rid of surface rust. I used rustoleum ultra flat black on them. They turned out pretty good.

 

Good job. Looks nice.

 

Sweet man,
I got mine on yesterday. Let me know how that paint holds up. I just used some regular flat rustoleum (whatever) stuff. I heard there was some really good stuff that held up better, but I can't think of what it is now... does anyone know?

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Yeah i need to figure out what paint i'll use...update any problems with either choice. Thanks

 

mine comes off kind-of easy but... its a rattle can, its not hard to put it back I might try to roll on some bed liner on the tops of the outer tubes but... thats later down the line. It would just make it easier for all the chicks that get in and out of my rig to do so... you know how it goes...

 

Bedliner will peel right off it did on my other truck when I put it on the rocksliders.

 

i never have chicks in my truck... no one will ride with me... and i hang out with groups of people a lot, and 2 seats isnt practical for a group....

 

Well tested them today at the lowes construction site. I also got to test out the lockright locker.

 

I gotta say those sliders look sick!! The hybrid square and round is clean Good job!!

 

Thanks I guess they don't look too bad for $50 sliders. I did some of the work so I can say I made about 1/2 of them.

 

They look really good with that flat black, i just repainted mine with the Rustoleom Hammered stuff. I'd post a pic if i could find my digi camera.

 

The only real issues with them so far it's wierd to have the extra weight from the 3/16" material the 4 runner feels alot heavier. The only thing I can see being a problem with the extra weight is the IFS I will probably more prone to bending idlers now not that I am not prone to bending them already. I had previous sliders on another truck made from .120 tube and they faired pretty well.

 

Looks great! How did you attach to the frame? Got any close-ups of that? I have had good luck with Dupli-color Truck bed spray in the rattle cans. Also you can top coat it with SEM Chip Guard in a rattle can. That is what I used on this bumper http://community.webshots.com/photo/...87536658rVHJHT

Its all in the prep work though, I sand blasted first. Just about any paint will stick good to a sand blasted surface.