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Rock Sliders: chassis-mount or sill-mount?

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wizard:

--- Quote from: clover on December 23, 2009, 07:43:02 ---
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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Good point.

If you have a body lift then sill mounted sliders are the easiest option, but it wouln't be to difficult to off set the mounting brackets by 2 inches for those that want chassis mounted ones.
I'll have to plan that for later in the year, once the tank guard, winch bumper and lowerd front shock mounts are out of the way.

I got the sliders back from the powder coaters today, they look great in satin black. I can only get the weather strip in January though which is a bit of a [!Expletive Deleted!].

wizard

J.D.:

--- Quote from: wizard on December 21, 2009, 19:46:30 ---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

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They look familiar to a set I had :D :D :D

Devon-Rover:
I will stand by the claim that chassis mounted is best. The disco body shell isn't the best known of being corrosion proof. So asking it to take the weight of the motor is a little mad. IIRC the body is attached to the chassis at six points and they would have to be A1 to support the weight of itself Plus the chassis. After all if the bodyshell was that strong to support a set of rocksliders, then why didn't Land Rover do without the chassis and go for a monocoque construction from day one?

I might suggest to the poor chap with the chassis one's that need modifying even time he touches a butter cup so he can open the door has been taken for a ride. As shown above my series has a set that was home made. (No company made them at the time) And i have raised the motor on them. And used them to turn around on. and oddly enough saved the door being stoved in when i dropped off a step onto a rock!

wizard:

--- Quote ---IIRC the body is attached to the chassis at six points
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I think its 10 points ;)

wizard

LiftedDisco:
Wizard...

Have you cut & bent your sliders so that they follow the bottom line of the doors/front wings or are they left straight?

Are you also thinking of doing tree sliders (with tube, not square section)?

If so, can you let me know a price please?

Thanks, Rob

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