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rock sliders, which ones???

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disco-v8:
well dan ive got to find another use for that 75mm spanner other than holding diff's when undoing the crown wheel nuts  :lol:


think using the kerb method may not work aswell, think ill actualy put some effort into this and do it properly, it will be a nice little prodject for me....

ive just got the steel today, god i had to push my seat as close to the wheel aspossible just to get it in the boot, so if anyone sees a disco with someone driving like and old women it will be me lol

better dig the stick welder out of the cuboard and get stuck into it, got till the 25th feb

Range Rover Blues:
Personally I like the Fist Four ones, IIRC they are Southdown but I can't see them on that website.

Anyway, it's the strength of the brackets that won me over, the sliders are shaped like the original sill mouldings which makes them expansive but the brackets are double what most others offer and that's why I like them.

Don't get sill mounted ones, bad idea.  The sill is not strong enough to support the weight of the car, the body around it was never designed for that much stress, the chassis/body mount is also designed to flex, by bolting to both chassis and body you are isolating this mount and eventually the stress through the sill will start to tell, curiously not be tearing but be corrosion, stress and corrosion are allies against you!

Get chassis mounted sliders.

Darren:
I've had two different designs of sliders on my Disco. The first were Terrain Master that bolted to both the chassis and the body cill. They were on for about four years and, as far as I can tell, didn't cause any stress related problems. There also wasn't any apparent NVH transmitted from chassis to body, either.

They took a fair amount of abuse and I only took them off when they were basically worn out. The plastic coating had been damaged in numerous places and the things had started to rust - no galv coating on those ones.

I've now got a set of Discoparts sliders fitted, which have been on for about 18 months. These are a very different design in that they comprise a substantial steel channel section that totally encloses the body cill and is fixed by bolting straight through in, from memory, eight places. To the outside of this channel is welded the box section of the slider itself and, on mine, the optional tree bars. I'd previously had reservations about cill mounted sliders but this design really is incredibly strong. The channel section effectively distributes the point loads of impacts with rocks/trees, or from jacking, along the whole cill. I've now put these to the test against rocks a few times and, apart from scratching the plastic coating off, they've shrugged off any damage. So far, there's no noticable problems with body mounts or the body cill itself, although I did take the precaution of painting and waxoiling them before fitting the sliders.

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