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Old Oct 23, 2014 | 06:56 AM
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Originally Posted by jnabird333
I have those on my 4-door. They mount to the body bolts and body not the frame. I chose them because while the frame mounted sliders are strong, they get used more often because they are mounted lower. Although infrequent, I have seen rigs get hung up on their sliders that I (stock rubi sliders at the time) was able to clear without even touching. I went with the JCR sliders because they appeared to mount up higher... If I were to do this again I think I would get the Pure Jeep variant of this slider.
My bad, I figured it was the same.
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Old Oct 23, 2014 | 07:19 AM
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when I was looking for sliders I only considered frame mounted sliders. Here is pictures of all the ones I was looking it.

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Shrockworks



White knock off road



VKS fab.



TJM



Poison spyder

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Old Oct 23, 2014 | 07:20 AM
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Originally Posted by jdschup
Thanks again for all the tips, I appreciate it.

The only issue for the install of any of these is that several (maybe all) of them require drilling into my frame (no problem) and then tapping threads into that new hole. Any reason a guy who has never tapped threads before should be nervous about it?
No. But Shrockworks uses mostly existing holes, plus a couple self-tapping screws. Others probably do, too. The most difficult install I ever worked on was body-mounted using nutserts. Lots of holes to drill. And the little tool they give you is a poor sub for a real (and expensive) nutsert tool.
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Old Oct 23, 2014 | 08:50 AM
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Originally Posted by Invest2m4
Northridge sometimes stocks the LoD sliders and probably the best price you'll get.
They had one set left, at 10% off and free shipping, so I grabbed them! They said they might even arrive tomorrow. Thanks for the tip!
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Old Mar 21, 2015 | 10:52 AM
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Originally Posted by tjkamp
I'm hoping to get my hands on a set of Shrockworks around tax return time. Definitely worth looking into. They bolt to the frame, and could just as easily be welded (I would assume). I hear they can sometimes take a while to ship, but then I've heard of other people getting theirs on a week or two.
Just ordered my rockers, will be 60-+ days. I'm looking at putting the body clad on the panel as well. Any thoughts. I tore my panel under the door in MOAB and spent 800 bucks to fix it. Proper rockers would have been cheaper the first time.

If anyone uses the body clad, do you recommend the rubber liner?
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Old Mar 21, 2015 | 01:50 PM
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I got a set of Crawler Conceptz Ultra Rockers from Marcus @ RCO. Very nice very similar to PSC Brawler but uses larger hardware and in my opinion appear to be a little more stout based upon number of attachment points and some common attachment points are more substantial in the common mounting point. I.E. where the step portion mounts to the body/rocker plate .
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Old Mar 22, 2015 | 02:38 AM
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Originally Posted by shipjim1
Just ordered my rockers, will be 60-+ days. I'm looking at putting the body clad on the panel as well. Any thoughts. I tore my panel under the door in MOAB and spent 800 bucks to fix it. Proper rockers would have been cheaper the first time.

If anyone uses the body clad, do you recommend the rubber liner?
Rubber liner between sandwiched painted dissimilar metal parts? I wouldn't. But then again sandwiching painted dissimilar painted metal parts Why? All the lap joints during the production of Your Jeep (and any other vehicle) are sealed with butyl caulk Prior to spot welding inside the robotic weld cell for that job space. When assembled the body goes through a 17 to 23 stage cleaning and e-coat priming process involving submersion and spray off zones.
If metal/paint/rubber/paint/metal sandwiches were so perfect I would think at least one OEM manufacturer would adopt that procedure in at least one model of the millions of vehicles produced around the world each year.
I digress. Yes use none of the above. Frame mount Luke.
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Old Mar 22, 2015 | 02:46 AM
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Originally Posted by jnabird333
No, Lots of youtube videos to help. Just use plenty of cutting oil and take your time.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veO270DcKXE
Don't try this at home Kids. If you need a square to check parallelism to your drilled hole then there's a good chance you shouldn't be doing a potentially expensive experiment on your Jeep. When the guy drills the hole for the pilot size was a squ........
Oh and cutting fluid is well, like, extremely toxic. where are the dudes gloves? Read the labels guys. It's only your lungs, livers, etc. But hell ya I gotta tap me my first hole.

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Old Mar 22, 2015 | 03:05 AM
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Originally Posted by jnabird333
No, Lots of youtube videos to help. Just use plenty of cutting oil and take your time.

Edit to add vid...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veO270DcKXE
Don't try this at home Kids. If you need a square to check parallelism to your drilled hole then there's a good chance you shouldn't be doing a potentially expensive experiment on your Jeep. When the guy drills the hole for the pilot size was a squ........
Yes for those of of you that haven't done it before practice on some scrap Because ole mr. hairy arms here in the vid isn't under his Jeep and still struggling. He checked square but not a second check At 90 degrees. Practice before to get the feel and use the square as a paper weight.
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Old Apr 27, 2015 | 02:32 PM
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Love my LoD Rock sliders! They took a solid hit this past weekend.

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