Gordinho80 wrote:Looking good Bob... you'll have to help me out when I get mine... whenever that may be... LOL
foosh wrote:It would probably be more time and cost efficient to just get the shorter ones, and how many rocks are we ever gonna see that would get between the sliders and the tires that are that tall and skinny... ? I would try to avoid it to begin with.
MrSmithsTB wrote:foosh wrote:It would probably be more time and cost efficient to just get the shorter ones, and how many rocks are we ever gonna see that would get between the sliders and the tires that are that tall and skinny... ? I would try to avoid it to begin with.
I can agree with that. By that point, the tires should be taking over. If not, the clearance issues are probably going to leave us hung up anyway.
bobbyblaze wrote:I'm definetly cutting the ends as short as possible. If nothing more, to provide clearance for larger tires inthe future. I wouldn't feel comfortable with the length of my sliders with 32 or 33" tires. With the way i'm mounting the sliders, i'm not sure if 32-33" tires would fit safely. Here's where they end up with the tips still intact. . .That's ith my 30.5" tires. Add one or two inches to my tire. That's too close for me. JD's sliders are different in the way that the ends of his don't end up directly behind the tire tread do they ? His are a better Better design for our body style.
MrSmithsTB wrote:bobbyblaze wrote:I'm definetly cutting the ends as short as possible. If nothing more, to provide clearance for larger tires inthe future. I wouldn't feel comfortable with the length of my sliders with 32 or 33" tires. With the way i'm mounting the sliders, i'm not sure if 32-33" tires would fit safely. Here's where they end up with the tips still intact. . .That's ith my 30.5" tires. Add one or two inches to my tire. That's too close for me. JD's sliders are different in the way that the ends of his don't end up directly behind the tire tread do they ? His are a better Better design for our body style.
I can see my tires getting into trouble with the extra inch on the front of those. But like I believe I said on the OS, hack that off and you should be fine. Just a thought, but why not cut off the parts of the rockers that will get in the way instead of heating them? I'm sure you would be able to use some slip on black door edge protectors to clean up the cut and you will be able to snug the sliders up more to keep as much clearance as possible.
Gordinho80 wrote:From the looks of that pic, simply cutting that little section off and welding on flat cover piece, should be able to clear a 32-33" tire with little to no problems.
Bob, can you take a pic from the well, with the wheel cut to the right all the way? Kind of at this angle...
And spacers make it sweep out an even LARGER radius than the OEM tucked in backspacing.bobbyblaze wrote:the front tire takes up more space in the wheel well when turned.
bobbyblaze wrote:MrSmithsTB wrote:bobbyblaze wrote:I'm definetly cutting the ends as short as possible. If nothing more, to provide clearance for larger tires inthe future. I wouldn't feel comfortable with the length of my sliders with 32 or 33" tires. With the way i'm mounting the sliders, i'm not sure if 32-33" tires would fit safely. Here's where they end up with the tips still intact. . .That's ith my 30.5" tires. Add one or two inches to my tire. That's too close for me. JD's sliders are different in the way that the ends of his don't end up directly behind the tire tread do they ? His are a better Better design for our body style.
I can see my tires getting into trouble with the extra inch on the front of those. But like I believe I said on the OS, hack that off and you should be fine. Just a thought, but why not cut off the parts of the rockers that will get in the way instead of heating them? I'm sure you would be able to use some slip on black door edge protectors to clean up the cut and you will be able to snug the sliders up more to keep as much clearance as possible.
Just trying to keep the functionality of the rockers at the ends for water/wind resistance along with the lower door edge seal fo the same. If what i'm gonna do works, I will have kept the look and weather resistance of the OE rocker while also making the clearance to get the sliders up at an angle i'm happy with while at the same time making the job as simple as possible.
Do you think it would be easier, cleaner looking and less time consuming to heat and mold existing plastic ends to work with the shape of the sliders or to cut off the ends and fill in the gaps with some other material.
These sliders shouldn't end up too much further away from the body than Teebes.
The Roadie wrote:And spacers make it sweep out an even LARGER radius than the OEM tucked in backspacing.bobbyblaze wrote:the front tire takes up more space in the wheel well when turned.