Finally got my rock sliders finished. Pretty basic design. My cousin helped me weld them since I have no idea how to weld. Took us about six hours to finish them. Spread out over a period of about 4 months... I'm extremely happy how they turned out, way better than I expected. Since these turned out so well, I think I might start to make more.

Sorry for the bad lighting in the pictures and how durty the runner is. Its snowing out and I took these after dark, Ill take better pictures once this storm blows over tomorrow.

 

Extremely well built sliders. Very very impressive. I just test fitted some snow chains using my highlift and my sliders to make it easier...wow yet another use for my custom built sliders. I never knew I would use them in so many different ways until I had them.
I'm sure you'll find the same with your new addition!

 

very nice, im impressed, now lets go test them out, wooohoooo, did someone say "slidder check" ?

 

Did you weld them straight to the frame? If so, in your future ones you build it's recommended that you weld them to a diamond shaped plate on the frame, because the frame could possibly tear if you don't.

Chris

 

Nice... One day Ill finish mine, one day

 

Nice. I do agree with ravencr though. When I put sliders on my 93 my brother and I welded 5-6" pieces of 3" angle iron to the frame and then welded the sliders to that. You don't need anything like that, it was probably overkill, but something to help spread the load over more of the frame is a good thing.

 

Definitely inspiration for me. I have a few design ideas, and I'm hoping after the new year to get the steel and start making them. Yours look great, Dekri!

ravencr, explain what you mean by "diamond shaped plates", I'm trying to visualize what you mean. Thanks!

 

He means scab plates. Cut squares of steal a couple inches per side, spin them so that the corners are facing up and down and side to side, like a diamond shape rather than a square, weld you slider legs to them, then weld them to the frame. It spreads the load out more and since none of the welds are verticle or horizontal they are less likely to "tear" off.

 

<> plate welded to the frame and then the sliders welded to them.

Chris

 

Swami, you da man... I get it now, and it makes perfect sense...I think I need more coffee this morning....

 

Yes, I know I should have. But we built them in a very strange way. Since we spread the project over a long period of time, we pretty much built them from the frame out. So the first thing we did was weld the supports onto the frame. Afterwords I realized we sould've done that, but it was to late by then.

My guess would be that it would have to take some extremely tough pounding on those to make them break the frame. But if it does break, oh well, just means time for more upgrades.

 

Cool man, good job

 

You'll probably be fine since they're so close to the bottom of the frame.

Chris

 

Excellent job! I remember seeing them when they just had the inner bar. They look a lot like 4Crawler Sliderz...nice.

 

dang kyle those are super nice. great work.