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Rock Sliders: chassis-mount or sill-mount?
wizard:
Heres a few pix.
Chassis to rock slider brackets.
Rock sliders ready for powder coating
Making sure they fit
Just got to powder coat them and put on the weather strip.
wizard
clover:
I beg to differ with the received opinion that the only "proper" way is chassis mounted... for the simple reason that my Disco 1 has a 2" body lift so if I had chassis mounted tree sliders there would be a 2" gap between the slider and the sill. Which would look awful and would not protect the sills properly.
My mate has chassis mounted sliders and they are always bending where as mine do not. He is regularly getting the sledge hammer out to them so he can open the doors. Chassis mounted ones are only as strong as the brackets that hold the to the chassis which in most cases are pretty crap in my opinion. How can 2 poncy steel plates compete with full length wrap around and bolted sill guards.
Don't get me wrong you have to have sound sills to bolt them too. Which on a disco is pretty rare but its better to get corroded sill welded up anyway. About 8 bolts straight through the sills on both sides. The back of the sills is reasonably strength. There is NO sills like on a Disco on a series or a defender. If you engage you brain all monocoque bodyshells on every vehicle have the jacking points on the sills so there must be some wisdom in it.! They have been through hell and high water for the last 3 years on my D1 and no signs of corrosion yet!
If I did want to strengthen them further I could weld tube to the chassis from the back of then but as they work perfectly fine on stannage edge and other rock strewn roads I don't see the point.
I bought mine from Disco parts which are not trading any more... You used to be able to get them from scrapiron racing but i don't think they are trading anymore either.
Someone must be producing then...
Range Rover Blues:
Possibly they went bust after all the claims for damaged bodyshells with rock sliders bolted to the paintwork ;)
wizard:
--- Quote from: Range Rover Blues on December 22, 2009, 19:51:45 ---Possibly they went bust after all the claims for damaged bodyshells with rock sliders bolted to the paintwork ;)
--- End quote ---
And there's me planning on making a few sets of sill mounted sliders early next year....
wizard
clover:
Well I've got no complaints and no damage to my body shell as a result of using them.
I would have thought there are more people out there concerned with the state of their sills once the plastic trim is removed and half the metal work on the sill comes away with it! Which you ought to something about whatever your plans are for sliders.
I think there are other reasons for them going bust. I have found other people that produce them but they are small outfits that make them to order.
Chassis mounted tree sliders are good for Series and Defenders because there is little else that you can fit being as they are not monocoque welded body shells and as such don't have welded sills. But I insist that for a Disco there are other equally valid options.
Seeing as I bought my body lift kit from you wizard what do you suggest for your many customers who have bought them for their Discoveries and may want to buy your tree sliders and may be some what disappointed when they fit them and find the 2" gap?
I'm not having a go as your stuff is great. Are you planning to over come this with a different fitting kit? I would have thought it is not too impossible a mountain to overcome...
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