I had a few questions about the Tomken Machine Rock Sliders I installed, so hopefully this will be helpful. They were packaged fairly well, but there were a few spots I touched up with a spray enamel where the powder coat was rubbed through. They weigh about 70-75 lbs total and are constructed from 1/8” 2”x4” steel.
The front side of the Rock Sliders is the more difficult of the two during the install. The brackets are a clamshell design that bolt together over the top of the frame and then a hole is drilled through both sides of the frame and a bolt is run through it. There is an extension going onto the lower control arm bracket that has a self taping 3/8” bolt threaded into it.
Here you can barely see the top of the clamshell joint in the brackets.
This is the driver side rear bracket
Install was pretty straightforward—there really aren’t enough parts to get confused.
Backside bracket
The only real hang up was the lack of forgiveness in the holes on the rear bracket. If you didn’t drill through the frame just perfectly they did not offer any wiggle room. Hopefully your drilling will be spot on. There definitely wasn’t room to drill through from the backside, so you need to punch through the outer frame and then through the inside frame.
Here you can notice some rust already forming after two weeks on Indiana roads. We had a massive snow the day after I installed it, and I sprayed my frame and underside with cosmoline, but evidently I neglected the Rock Sliders. I will pop these off later and eliminate the rust and repaint it. I didn’t buy a rust free FL/GA Jeep to slap rusty parts on it.
