rock sliders and aluminum skid palte

[successnothingless]

Hoping that some can give me some advice for buidling some rock sliders. I have looked at skidplates sliders and the ones made by rocksliderz, as wells as some at 4x4exterem sports. They all look great except I like to build stuff myself.

I am just wondering some basic measurements. I will be using 2" square tubing. 3/16" thick directly under the body seam. Then a few inches out from the door will be a second 2" square tubing 1/4" thick. I wondering about this measurement.

Anyone who has bought or build sliders will you please give me a measurement from either the body seam under the door and/or from the frame to the outside bar. The frame is not stragiht so a measurement from the seam woudl be the best.

One other questions how many bars to attatch to the frame? 2 or 3? Where would you attach them?



Now the skid plate: 1/4 Aluminum. If you can give me a dimension of the overall plate size then I can figure out where to drill hoels to atatch it.


Oh and I have a '98 MS XLS Auto 3.0L. No mods yet, but you will be seeing a lot of questions and mods to come in other threads....

Other possible Mods:
-2" Budget lift using 80's toy shackles and crank up the front.
- custom roof rack (and/or rear bumper) with tire, extinguisher, and jackmounts
- rear dif locker (looking for suggestions here other than ARB)

[CerOf]

Here is a company in AZ that makes rock sliders for Grand Cherokees and other Jeeps.

From the following link you can get an idea how they mount. I have used this companies rock sliderz on my old Grand Cherokee and I used www.rocky-road.com on my 2002 Grand Cherokee.

Both are SUPER strong and never had a problem with anything breaking or bending, and I beat the SNOT out of them on the trail.

[2000ute]

successnothingless said:

Hoping that some can give me some advice for buidling some rock sliders. I have looked at skidplates sliders and the ones made by rocksliderz, as wells as some at 4x4exterem sports. They all look great except I like to build stuff myself.

I am just wondering some basic measurements. I will be using 2" square tubing. 3/16" thick directly under the body seam. Then a few inches out from the door will be a second 2" square tubing 1/4" thick. I wondering about this measurement.

Anyone who has bought or build sliders will you please give me a measurement from either the body seam under the door and/or from the frame to the outside bar. The frame is not stragiht so a measurement from the seam woudl be the best.

One other questions how many bars to attatch to the frame? 2 or 3? Where would you attach them?



Now the skid plate: 1/4 Aluminum. If you can give me a dimension of the overall plate size then I can figure out where to drill hoels to atatch it.


Oh and I have a '98 MS XLS Auto 3.0L. No mods yet, but you will be seeing a lot of questions and mods to come in other threads....

Other possible Mods:
-2" Budget lift using 80's toy shackles and crank up the front.
- custom roof rack (and/or rear bumper) with tire, extinguisher, and jackmounts
- rear dif locker (looking for suggestions here other than ARB)

If you are using square tubing and your unit is a 98, go to skidplate's website int he links section and look at his work. You will find the dimensions that you are looking for on his website for the sliders and I bet if you ask him nicely, he will give you the schematic for the aluminum skidplate, as well.

[successnothingless]

Yes I have printed of the pictures off his sliders. It issweet rig! As are many of the ones highlighted at 4x4extremesports . I didnt see the dimensions though. Looking at the pictures though it doesnt look like his inner tube in under the body weld. Am I mistaken thinking I shoudl run my inner tube under the seam?

2000ute said:

If you are using square tubing and your unit is a 98, go to skidplate's website int he links section and look at his work. You will find the dimensions that you are looking for on his website for the sliders and I bet if you ask him nicely, he will give you the schematic for the aluminum skidplate, as well.

[2000ute]

I dunno.

Here's a pic of a welding point on mine:

[deaconblue]

Hi there 2000ute

iv'e been thinking about rock sliders for my Paj,and wondering how to fit them as the chassis is so far back from the edge of the sill.
A mate on our on line club here (UK)' mitsubishi-pajero.co.uk' said his wifes suzuki has clamp's to hold them on .

But seeing your photo i see welding is the way to go!!

I have a 92 SWB do you have a drawing of the dimention's of your's that i may copy ??

Adrian

[cwic]

thats how I was gonna do mine but the company closed shop. Good thing I never made the down payment.
Clay