Slider Ideas

tommy222220_0 · Jun 19, 2009

Hey,

All those thinking about/making sliders, what do think of this design?

Thinking along the lines of 6mm for supporting brackets and 45OD 4mm wall tube. And gusseting the supports so I can jack off the sliders!

Stumpydog · Jun 19, 2009

Slidders

Great looking sliders mate, don't go overboard with the capabilities of the jacking supports, very wide rail' lots of strain over 6-8'' from the chassis

joshy · Jun 20, 2009

looks good, but deffinetly gusset them.

Lil_Menace · Jun 20, 2009

Very nice,

matty · Jun 20, 2009

looks good mate but dont you want to offset them down just under the chassis to for fulfill their purpose. also did you get those powder coated and how much did that set you back

Matty

joshy · Jun 20, 2009

offset them down?., purpose is to protect the sills mainly isnt it?

Matt76 · Jun 20, 2009

Yeah I would have thought the chassis rails are stronger than the sliders anyway (The sliders are mounted on the chassis rails after all) so we dont need to rely on the sliders to protect the chassis rails.

That looks pretty much what I was thinking for mine too, I might use a slightly thicker flat bar for the brackets and will try and bend them rather than welding to form the 'U' and chuck some gussets on for good measure. All in all they look like they will do their job no probs mate. Are they yours or were you planning on making a set the same?

joshy · Jun 20, 2009

10mm plate welded or bent into a u with a bolt going over or through the chassis would be more then enough

tommy222220_0 · Jun 20, 2009

Matt76 said:
Yeah I would have thought the chassis rails are stronger than the sliders anyway (The sliders are mounted on the chassis rails after all) so we dont need to rely on the sliders to protect the chassis rails.

That looks pretty much what I was thinking for mine too, I might use a slightly thicker flat bar for the brackets and will try and bend them rather than welding to form the 'U' and chuck some gussets on for good measure. All in all they look like they will do their job no probs mate. Are they yours or were you planning on making a set the same?

Just planning to make a set similar.

10mm U shape it is.

Just making sure they're gonna be more than strong enough....

Matt76 · Jun 20, 2009

Yeah I was gonna use 8 or 10. Whatever I have on the rack I guess.

joshy · Jun 20, 2009

tommy222220_0 said:
Just planning to make a set similar.

10mm U shape it is.

Just making sure they're gonna be more than strong enough....

if you go with that design and add gussets, as long as you can half decently weld u should have no problem landing on it or jacking off the inner bar.

tommy222220_0 · Jun 20, 2009

joshy said:
as long as you can half decently weld

mmm, all depends on the liquid intake. At least the 1st one will be good, who knows after that :dong:

joshy · Jun 20, 2009

haha i found the hardest part was getting it all in position to tack it. pita.

Stumpydog · Jun 22, 2009

Sliders

The reason I said don't be to reliant on them as Jacking points! A few years ago I bought some commercially built ones (no names), Got bogged to the eyeballs and eventually ended up driving home with the HI-Lift jammed through the passenger door, nearly had to find myself some wide-load signs to come home with. Won't make that mistake again. :angry:

By all means beef em up as a jacking point, but do it properly. Jacking points front and rear for me. Regards :stop:

tommy222220_0 · Jun 22, 2009

Stumpydog said:
The reason I said don't be to reliant on them as Jacking points! A few years ago I bought some commercially built ones (no names), Got bogged to the eyeballs and eventually ended up driving home with the HI-Lift jammed through the passenger door, nearly had to find myself some wide-load signs to come home with. Won't make that mistake again. By all means beef em up as a jacking point, but do it properly. Jacking points front and rear for me. Regards

Ok, where do you hi-jack from? (bullbar or rear bar)

matty · Jul 5, 2009

hey joshy what are you talking about when you said to add gussets on the sliders.

tommy222220_0 · Jul 5, 2009

Stumpydog said:
The reason I said don't be to reliant on them as Jacking points! A few years ago I bought some commercially built ones (no names), Got bogged to the eyeballs and eventually ended up driving home with the HI-Lift jammed through the passenger door, nearly had to find myself some wide-load signs to come home with. Won't make that mistake again. By all means beef em up as a jacking point, but do it properly. Jacking points front and rear for me. Regards

Whoops!

Jacked from sliders before but always with the door open.

joshy · Jul 6, 2009

gussets are just a bracing on the outrigging pipe, increases the vertical contact area to stop it from flexing.

Kickars2 · Jul 6, 2009

i like the design but i wouldn't jack the car off it,
id go a thicker pipe but ah

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