The bolt going straight up in this picture does it go into the body?The 4 door has 2 brackets that are not on the truck unless you ordered it with factory rock rails. The 2 door has 1. Pictures...
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Want to buy mine? I took off stock badlands rails and added Go Rhino rails have the full bracket set I assume.
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There are 3 places(4 doors) that mount to the body/frame. The front mount bolts directly into the body, the other 2 bolt into the bracket you see. That bracket bolts to the pinch weld and the frame.
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Well that sucks. Guess these are out. I haven't been reading installation instructions for all the possibilities.The 4 door has 2 brackets that are not on the truck unless you ordered it with factory rock rails. The 2 door has 1. Pictures...
I ASSumed they made use of the body bolt right behind that bracket (the vertical one with the big washer).
So looks like it different rail, or I'll have to go with the frame mounted ones.
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Still doesn't seem right to me. I have their instructions and will look again. I had no issues but I had the Rock Rails. All bolts went into the body and through the pinch welds.
I am posting the directions sent with the slider/steps. I still find it hard to believe you need brackets. Mine went into the pinch welds and straight into the body.
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You might want to look under your truck, only the front vertical bolt goes directly into the body. The other 2 vertical bolts go into the Ford-installed brackets that your truck came with. The above picture is from my Badlands. The picture shows the Ford-installed bracket that my truck came with. If I did not have the factory-installed rack rails or steps, that bracket wouldn't be there and the Zroadz rails would not work. This is from their website:
INSTALL NOTE: 2/4 Door models NOT equipped with Factory Installed Rock Rails, Side/Tube Steps, or Running Boards require additional hardware only available through Ford Motors and is sold separately. Please contact our customer service department for additional details
I just went out and looked. You are absolutely right. The front goes into the body and the rear goes into a bracket that is there from the factory.
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My original plan was to add the factory steps, temporarily until I could get rock rails. So had I pulled those off and sold them either the bracket would have come off and I'd be screwed or the new buyer would have been screwed.
I mean there are plenty products where they have that add-ons that you may or may not need depending on your setup. But it's all through the company. So I can order everything I would need to mount to my vehicle.
To have to be able to go to Ford, and hope that you can get some brackets at God knows what price, not for me.
But then again, I'm extremely frustrated with Ford's quality and about to just give up on the whole Bronco so don't mind me.
I mean there are plenty products where they have that add-ons that you may or may not need depending on your setup. But it's all through the company. So I can order everything I would need to mount to my vehicle.
To have to be able to go to Ford, and hope that you can get some brackets at God knows what price, not for me.
But then again, I'm extremely frustrated with Ford's quality and about to just give up on the whole Bronco so don't mind me.
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How much were the brackets from ford? Do you by chance have part numbers? For the price they're selling them for you would think they would include brackets...... Most expensive side rail on the market, requires additional brackets they can't provide?!
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Those look awesome. I've wanted these ever since I first saw them.... however, I'm still waiting to get my Badlands! LOL. Allegedly my BL is scheduled to be built on 3/14 (fingers crossed). These steps will be one of the first additions I make. I should have ordered these steps when they were on sale at Xmas though....
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The brackets with all the factory bolts nuts and washers were $ 135.96 + shipping.
If you contact zroadz they will send you a parts list.
That's not terrible, but still a lot of extra money. I just went ahead and ordered the 4wp 2 door side steps. I'll probably end up doing a thread on my Bronco shortly since I've already added a couple of things that might be beneficial to other members looking for information.
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I struggled with this very thought during all the sales. I'm even more pissed that some of the prices have gone up since then. But not knowing when I'm going to get my Bronco, common Sense was able to override and stop me for buying things.
At this point I don't even know if I'm ever going to get the Bronco. May just call it and go another route.
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