I looked at calminis rockslider but I think they hang down to far. So after crushing my rocker pannel today, now I'm thinking of cut out the rounded part of the rocker pannel(like all the way to the lowe seam)with a plasma cuter and getting some 3x3x.120 or .095 tube and welding it in and then having the bottom 10" of my tracker rino lined to hide some of the ulgy ness.
Is this a bad Idea? has anyone got somthing beter?

I've thought about something simuliar, but was waiting so see someone else try it first and see what it looked like.  However I know what the trail modified rockers look like all to well, I've two of them still attached.
 I was looking at Rocky Road's rock slider's due to not running a Body lift.  They also looked a bit stouter.  
  If anyone else has better info I'm interested also.

Actually I have plans on re-doing my rockers. I've crushed them both in pretty good. What I'm planning on doing is cutting the existing rockers off at the crease below the doors and welding in a long piece of 2" square thick wall tubing in their place. then I plan on filling in the underside from the square tubing to the body with a long piece of 3" wide by1/4" thick flat stock welded in. This will effectively replace my rockers with thick wall steel and give me something to slide across rocks on as well as give me more places to use my HiLift jack...

i'm running 3" body lift, and i can see the chassis rails quite clearly from the sides.

a lot of people here (australia) make rock sliders that bolt to the chassis rails, and so there is no need to cut the actual body.

so i was thinking, i could just use some 2" or 3" square tube for the actual sliders, and use some 2" sq tube for the arms that hold the slider to the chassis.

although this will reduce the sill to ground clearance, it will still be higher than the clearance under the actual chassis rails.

does anyone have any pics?

if i were to make sliders id cut the pannel off and rig it up so the rockers were welded/bolted to the frame but went as snug as i could get it to what is left of the body

welding in a bar to the body may not be a bad thing but i dont know if id want the mass of the sus/frame suspended by the body mounts if i were to come down really hard on a rock. if it were bolted to the frame i would have alot more confidence it smashing my way down a hill  

Yea, I thought about that.  I used 2x4 steel square tube, Now looking back I have little to no side protection.  If I were to do it again I'd use 2x6.   I'll probally try to fab in some unber body boat side sliders (frame to rocker) and maybe some fancy tube to give a little more door protection.   Mine is just stitched into the sheetmetal but the thin stuff it attaches to will hold the weight of the truck, Tested it last time out (Smashed down on a few rocks).   The 2x4 Tube fit sung in the rocker pocket.  I just cut a notch out of the top of the 2x4 for the inside B-pillar support.   Once you open it up you will seee what I mean.  

Mine are snug to the bottom of the doors and filleted on each end to match the inner fender line.

In the first picture their is a small line about .5" down form the top of the rocker.  This is the original rocker Sheetmetal foled & hammered over to new square tube and seem wleded, ground and smoothed.



Yes one side is black and the other side is hammer coat silver.   I couldn't decide, But I think I like the black.

I'm looking into rocksliders to - I understand some are fixed by clamping against the chassis rail with plates inside and outside the rail. Is this right, can such a mount take the leverage of coming to rest on a boulder, or more practically, using a hi lift under them?

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Mine are snug to the bottom of the doors and filleted on each end to match the inner fender line.

In the first picture their is a small line about .5" down form the top of the rocker.  This is the original rocker Sheetmetal foled & hammered over to new square tube and seem wleded, ground and smoothed.



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Thas exactly what i had in mind do you have any regrets or any thing youd do different?

http://www.difflock.com/cgi-bin/discus/board-auth.cgi?lm=1084211311&file=/4855/29329.html

this is a link to how i made my rocksliders.

Thas exactly what i had in mind do you have any regrets or any thing youd do different?

I'd use wider Square tube (2x6 instead of 2x4).  When I rub/pivot on rocks I have to watch the doors.   If my rails were wider, sticking out 2 -3" past the doors, I'd be less worried.

http://www.difflock.com/cgi-bin/discus/board-auth.cgi?lm=1084211311&file=/4855/29329.html

this is a link to how i made my rocksliders.

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were building some for jens tracker, already cut out the rocker part and shes just in the process of welding it all up. heres a pic of it with the rockers cut out, and as u can see the bottom part of her paint is all rockgaurd, it actually doesnt look bad atall.

yes thats what i had in mind for the pain/bedliner skeem except kawi green on top and 02 doge yellow bedliner on the bottom!!!

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as far as i am aware the forum is open to all to view,you only need to register to post.

as far as i am aware the forum is open to all to view,you only need to register to post.

sorry,just checked,the forum is open but the link i sent is in the archive which can only be accessed by registered users.
why not register,its free and you may learn a thing or two from us limeys?