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Vehicle & Technical => Series Land Rovers => Topic started by: rustprooflandyracer on November 08, 2005, 08:45:28

Title: Rock sliders
Post by: rustprooflandyracer on November 08, 2005, 08:45:28

Just fitted my sliders, took me all of two days mainly due to the weather and getting dark.  Got them from mill services, and adapted the fitting method, so if you are doing the same happy to send photos and explain how I went about it!

ps. Their is a few photos on my pictures page!

Matt

Title: Rock sliders
Post by: dave_2A_2.25Turbo on November 08, 2005, 21:08:08

I'd be interested please........

Title: Rock sliders
Post by: rustprooflandyracer on November 08, 2005, 21:45:22

Hey, Got the sliders from mill services, £94 i think? including delivery and VAT, really well made and look great! Umm, they came with a 'comprehensive fitting kit' which was really a piece of A4 paper with a hand drawn diagram. it suggested using the rear tub bolts on both the rear out riggers, however this required for the offside dropping the tank, and again for both sides bending the metal plated provided.

Funnily enough I decided against this, prefering not removing the tank. The front is simply attached using the front chassis bulkhead bolt, just be careful when removing this as the bulk head can drop down a tad, so it makes putting the bolt back in impossible. which happened to me  :( however simply solved using a high lift jack  :D . Any way using the brackets or plates of metal provided, i went about producing a series of angled joints to allow it to bolt directly to the side of the out rigger, by drilling two holes through this was pretty simple, went though alot of drill bits though. the bolts going through the chassis outrigger are 6mm, particualalry on the offside you have to be careful of the tank so put some wood or something behind wilst drilling. The rest of the bolts are 8mm which again came with the package.

Seems complicated but I asure you it isn't will take pictures when it is light and dry

Matt - overall they are better than the flimsy aluminium ones! could be counted as brilliant I supose  :D

Title: Rock sliders
Post by: dave_2A_2.25Turbo on November 08, 2005, 21:52:04

Thanks for that - be good to get a couple of pics when you can.  Are they strong enough to be jackable?

Title: Rock sliders
Post by: rustprooflandyracer on November 09, 2005, 09:21:37

The actual sliders are fully jackable, the question is whether I trust my joints, they are pretty substantial using 3mm steel plates and 8mm bolts!
will ge tthe pictures on to night.

Matt

Title: Rock sliders
Post by: muddy_90 on November 11, 2005, 19:09:25

Where did u get your rock sliders from again, the only ones i found come from the US.

Title: Rock sliders
Post by: rustprooflandyracer on November 12, 2005, 08:39:26

www.mill-services.com I believe there about £94

Matt