So i recently purchased a or fab 2 door jk rocker panel w/ bar (part# 84207) for my 2013 as I liked the simplicity, functionality and price of this slider, but to find out it will only work on 07-11 jeeps. One thing i looked at is what is better frame or body mounted, or fab is body mounted but the panel itself wraps under the body and bolts underneath as well. After following instructions I found out that jeep must of changed the rocker panel design underneath as or fab says to use a kit hanger with carriage bolt like the pictures shown here of where they go



Now where the red circles are where there is no cut out of the body on the 2012 up-present jeeps. Why did jeep change this design? There is now a 13mm bolt size u nut formed to the sheetmetal but suprisingly, these nuts do align with the channel mounts of the slider somewhat.. with a bit of modifiying.

I dremeled the channel mount hole so they would clear the room for a 13mm bolt and washer to fasten the mount to the sheetmetal. On the yellow circle I have also drilled the middle channel piece and only used 1 of the OR Fab hanger and carriage bolts to bolt to a opening in the middle of the rocker panel. Now my question is, will these bolts and the body u bolts have the same strength of what or fabs kit hangers on the sheetmetal? I now have 3 mounting points underneath the bottom instead of the 2 per instructions. But my only worries is will it hold up. Everything is bolted right down and secure, it can hold my weight jumping rocking it up and forth, so far it seems like everything is done after spending some time thinking how to make it actually work after finding out the piece changed like a dummy.

I'll take pics tomorrow. I hope someone who has a thought could chime in on this, maybe even OR Fab. It also might be a good idea for OR Fab to release a updated version of their product as I like the fact its a quality slider for what it is worth.