... Maybe a little ELI5 is in order.
The reasons surrounding bolt torque get explained in most body lift and slider threads. That is why it has only been touched upon so far in this one.
... Maybe a little ELI5 is in order.
I went back and read post #2, but it didn't really explain anything. I also don't understand your comment about effectively loosening the bolts and leaving them loose. With all due respect to the expertise present in this thread, very little has been stated to explain WHY body mount sliders are bad. I've had these same questions, so I'll proxy for itchy here. Maybe a little ELI5 is in order.
Have you examined a body mount puck enough to know how the bolt gets to torque? That is critical to understanding why body mount sliders are a bad idea
Sigh. No I haven't. But I'm not interested in a trip to the dentist. And thus far this is like pulling teeth.
I wasn't asking to be socratic...
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It's ok if you were.
For some reason, that turns people off...Natural Curiousity is about as common as common sense anymore.
For some reason, the elegant simplicity of the TJ body mounts really seem to escape folks and even folks who design parts. This is a cut away of the TJ body mount. When the bolt is tightened, the mushroom stem bottoms out inside the lower which slightly compresses the two rubber elements. The upper element is solid for support, the lower is hollow with a skirt to slow down uplift.Sigh. No I haven't. But I'm not interested in a trip to the dentist. And thus far this is like pulling teeth.
I’ve been following this thread as I’ve been a little confused by “body mount” sliders as it seems pretty much all of them mount to the body, including the OEM sliders rather then the frame. I think i understand now, a body mounted slider is one which requires removal of the bolts which hold the body down, then sliding the slider between the mount and body and reattaching the bolt.
Is this the torque box? Couldn’t I cut out the body mount slot to where it just wrapped around the puck and attach it with a rivnut to the torque box?
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No time, no space, and I've got plenty to do.@mrblaine Why don’t you have rocker guards on your website? Is there just no money in it? Not enough hours in the day?
I'm a bit jealous of how clean and rust free the tub is.
Never seen salty roads. I grew up in Iowa where everything rotted out within a few years. I’m still amazed at how many ford and Chevy trucks from the 80’s and 90’s are still on the roads down here.