Be carful what body mounted rock sliders you buy.

[‘21OBX]

I can a bit of this > shape in the rocker, I have that too from my modified stock sliders but not as pronounced.

Most likely one day the rockers will get cut out and replaced with box tube.

Yeah I’m not having them pull the dent at all. It pre clearanced now for future use! I’ve already feathered it out and got some etch prime and coating on it. Being Michigan any day or could snow and they will throw a ton of salt down. I’d spring for a set of the bullet proof rocker panels like they make for jeeps. The 1/4” thick stuff. Problem with the shape out our rockers is it would have to stop right at the roll to the sill. We are lifted 3 1/2” over stock on 35’s. I didn’t realize the guy we were following was on 40’s with his two door jeep. I had no business telling the wife eh follow him up.

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[Bigguyry2000]

I have a set that a local fab shop did for me. Dom tube and welded to the frame. I have hit em hard, pivoted on em, and have experimented with jacking from them. No issues yet, only scratches which I respray every few months with shitty rattle can bedliner form Amazon.

Garbage pic is garbage but they get used:

You can see how far they stick out here:

 

[Snacktime]

Is that Paint splitting and peeling off? Off so they haven’t been doing you any good.

Just mud, not flexing and cracking paint yet.


I am the green bronco at the end of the video. Pretty sure that last drop in the video is me nailing my slider.

 

[‘21OBX]

Just mud, not flexing and cracking paint yet.


I am the green bronco at the end of the video. Pretty sure that last drop in the video is me nailing my slider.

We didn’t even come down on anything that hard. The pinch weld is straight as can be. Almost must have been from a side and upward angle. Or as unlikely but possible a stick or root for between as we were in down pretty washouts and areas where the side banks were 3-4’ high

That entire section flaked off by barely a touch.

 

[Snacktime]

@21Obx I would call that a paint warranty issue. Paint should have some elasticity. I guess you are on the opposite side of my issue in that the pinch seam transferring stress to the factory door seam. My issue is irrelevant compared to yours. If the seam keeps flexing it will eventually crack/split the metal.

 

[mpeugeot]

We didn’t even come down on anything that hard. The pinch weld is straight as can be. Almost must have been from a side and upward angle. Or as unlikely but possible a stick or root for between as we were in down pretty washouts and areas where the side banks were 3-4’ high

That entire section flaked off by barely a touch.

Did you wax it?!?


@Ford Motor Company - someone needs a trouble ticket to play the Ford Support Treasure Hunt! Hurry up, ask for the VIN!

 

[‘21OBX]

Did you wax it?!?


@Ford Motor Company - someone needs a trouble ticket to play the Ford Support Treasure Hunt! Hurry up, ask for the VIN!

uh if you mean like wax based undercoating. Nope that mud lol. If you mean the paint oh yeah. $250 to get it painted back ice going in the 19th to get pretty again.

 

[‘21OBX]

@21Obx I would call that a paint warranty issue. Paint should have some elasticity. I guess you are on the opposite side of my issue in that the pinch seam transferring stress to the factory door seam. My issue is irrelevant compared to yours. If the seam keeps flexing it will eventually crack/split the metal.

I can’t see it flexing that far and going back. It something happened while we were enjoying rocks . It’s hard to tell but it’s pushed up and rolled pretty good I was a body tech for 10 years. Paint ain’t gonna flex this tight. The rockers are steel which I didn’t know I thought they would be aluminum.

 

[BostonSasquatch]

IAGperformance has steps you can easily install on factory rails (Badlands, at least) and remove for when you go rock crawling. They're in Maryland, American-made.

 

[AMTRV]

Rock sliders have always been frame mounted…..nothing has changed but the description(and the use)
I’ve had rock sliders on my 100 Series for years…..frame mounted big time
Unless they are totally frame mounted don’t call ‘em rock sliders; call ‘em steps.

 

[Frankie945]

I had poison spider rocker knockers on my 1 ton jku with 40s ran them for 3 years on all kinds of trails scuffed them up pretty bad and never one issue. If designed correctly body mount sliders are just fine. I recently gained about 3.5" of ground clearance by swapping my frame mounted lod sliders for the body mounted Metalcloak on the bronco. I’m confident the MC ones are up to the job plus they look so much cleaner on the bronco. I’m also now about 85lbs lighter then when I had the LOD.

 

[BAUS67]

I plan on using SRQ frame mounted slider/steps.

Not bad on the ground clearance.

2021+ Bronco 4Dr Frame Mounted Rock Sliders (srqfabrications.com)

 

[Frankie945]

Half the strength has been notched out of those SRQ sliders.

On a side note. Lod claimed in a post during their testing the front part of the frame would flex some under a load. That was the reason their brackets are so beefed up.

 

[Ramble_Offroad]

Check out RCI’s sliders.

 

[BAUS67]

Half the strength has been notched out of those SRQ sliders.

That is the only drawback. I thought of welding a section back in there and notching the pinch weld.

Then the other day I saw this post by Randy Slawson. 3 time KOH winner.





See comments about the "notch".

Granted the SRQ are not heat treated or gusseted but the point about notching and then welding sections back in and how strong that would be.

One other point for anyone that doesn't realize it. That "notch" in Slawsons tube is the shock mount. So I think that sees some serious stress. Hence the heat treat.

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