bad_idea

Where are you located? Perhaps one of the members would be willing to weld something up for you for a fair price. Get with me this time next year (after I get the garage built and perhaps am in town for more than a week), and I'd be willing to weld something up for you cheap.

SatiricalHen

I got 6' of 3/16 2x6, 6' of 3/16" 2" angle iron, and 6' of 1" 1/8"

XJIrish4x4

No where close to you! Though next year about this time I will be closer to coming to East Coast I hope. I'm up in the Pacific Northwest, Washington. I pick new duty orders for the Navy in August of this year so I can start making plans for that side of the states once I know for sure where I'm going.

I have a few guys who are maybe willing to help with the welding. So we shall see if not and it takes that long to get rockers on then I will hit you up on your offer!!

XJIrish4x4

I think you already showed photos but can you link a couple shots of your setup again? I didn't grab the steel yet but next week possibly.

SatiricalHen

here's the pictures I have of mine, I'll have to see if I can find the write up I followed for mine again

SatiricalHen

Forgot to mention those 6' numbers were per side.

XJIrish4x4

Thanks! I'm probably going to be a bit sad when I chop at those rockers lol Mine are in great shape no rust or not rot and no dents ha ha

bad_idea

Getting stationed in Norfolk is likely, biggest Naval base in the world. Offer stands, you want to drive down to the house, come on. I'm about 60 miles south of Norfolk.

XJIrish4x4

I know Norfolk all too well not really the ideal place to be stationed. Well for some maybe! I have done both West and East coast and as far as the Navy is concerned I would much rather be on West coast. Now my family and I are all from New York State (Rochester/Buffalo) area so that being said since we are approaching my retirement in less than 6 years we are moving back that way. Hopefully some good orders with the Navy to set us up and buy a house. I pick orders this coming August but it will still be a year before I rotate.

Either way man I will hit you up even if it is not for the rockers we can setup a trail ride or something or just kick it back and talk shop and Jeep!

TRCM

Well, your standard air tank isn't getting beat up by rocks and such, nor is it supporting the weight of a vehicle when it is doing so.

Air tanks don't explode like a bomb with flames and all, but they CAN explode from the outrush of pressurized air if the pressure is high enough (a normal air tank will NOT be high enough). The tank would have to be in the 1000s of psi to explode like most think of.

I shot an old expired fire extinguisher with my rifle, and while it was CO2, not air, it blew up like a hand grenade, and that round cylinder was almost a flat sheet of aluminum when it was done.

Gases under high pressure do dangerous things when suddenly released....may as well be a bomb.

Using one as a rock rail or slider, you won't be able to put enough pressure in it for it to do much more than 'POOF' or 'WHOOSH' if it fails catastrophically.


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SatiricalHen

I have never seen 3/16 wall 2x6 puncture or break. I've seen Cherokees that got t boned and it just pushed the slider in and didn't rupture the 2x6 itself. I have come down on mine hard enough to cause the interior lights to come on, and I haven't dented or ruptured my sliders. Can it rupture? Sure, but I'm sure I have a lot of other serious problems too, and it's not high enough pressure for anything to even happen like you said. I would never hold 1000s of psi in them, but for the ~100 psi I run I'm not worried at all.

TRCM

Wasn't trying to say you need to worry, just stating that the sheet metal air tanks you mentioned aren't doing all the stuff that slider you made is.

If they were, they'd get punctured.

And I agree, its more likely you'll crack your XJ in half then you breaking the slider....bend yes, break no.


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bad_idea

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa...sion-1.2457103

I won't play with compressor tanks. They make me nervous. See above link for a news story of a man who died when one exploded. A regular home use air compressor tank. When air decompresses uncontrolled, it decompresses rapidly and violently.