fox128

Irongrave

those look good

finneys98xj

lookin good so far make sure you tie them into the uibody in every place possible.

MOSendero

+1

Are those tires real MTR's or Treadwright Retreads clones?

Been thinking real hard on the clones.

How noisy are they?

MO

76ANTHONY

they look real, dont think retreads have that blue green line

mudd89driver

looking good

XJ Stryker

I think you did a great Job, although you should have painted them prior to mounting them

fox128

Yeah, real MT/Rs. not bad for noise, just a little hum.

I welded in the tnt unibody stiffeners first, and they seem very solid. I mounted just the two places to the "frame", four 1/2" grade 8's each.

haha, I built them on the vehicle, I don't trust my measuring abilities enough to make them on the bench. If you can see I need to take them off to finish welding them, then I think I'll have them sprayed with bedliner. i drive alot of gravel roads and normal paint won't last.


Thanks for the compliments, they are taking a fair amount of time to build, but i enjoy fabricating and i think jks gets like 425 bucks for similar style sliders.

wicked_xj

did u mount them to the pinch weld ? if not there going to push up into ur rocker

wicked_xj

btw they look great

REWSTER

looks great,did you make 2 sets

asatxj

Nice work Fox! How much for the second set now that prototyping is done? Got any spare deer tags out there?

fox128

No, I havn't mounted them to the pinch weld....I didn't see where i needed to i guess. I figured they might push up on the rocker a little but then most of the stress would be on the unibody mounts, which are very solid with the stiffeners in there....maybe I'm wrong though.

haha I don't know how much I would need to make another set, it wouldn't be cheap...i prolly have over $100 in steel and will have about 10hrs in them. i think about the only way i could sell them and make enough money is if I made jigs to mass produce.

And I don't hunt deer, but we sure have plenty of them around here! I could get a landowners permit, but never got into it i i guess. where are you located?

AND MERRY CHRISTMAS, XJ FRIENDS!!! Have a good one!

xjjeepthing

Nice

fox128

finished welding and thought i'd test them out.......





gotta see about getting some bedliner sprayed on them tomorrow...