Bouler bars a good bit shorter than MOPAR rails...

hoss75 · **Posted:** Sat Oct 22, 2005 2:24 pm

Is there a reason the Boulder Bars are so much shorter than the MOPAR Rock Rails? When I had my MOPAR rails on they went from wheel well to wheel well, but the Boulder Bars stop about 6" short in front and back of the well.

KJ Willy · **Posted:** Sat Oct 22, 2005 3:58 pm

Did you get the bars for the 05 or prior year bars??

hoss75 · **Posted:** Sat Oct 22, 2005 4:42 pm

'05.. but I'm talking about being shorter front to back, not how far out they stick (the '05 bars stick out a tad bit further to allow space for the trim).

KJ04 · **Posted:** Sat Oct 22, 2005 6:53 pm

Adam,
you're supposed to be on a Halloween run this weekend, not here on the board complaning that you're six inches short. :lol:

Neatus · **Posted:** Sat Oct 22, 2005 11:04 pm

I think Willy was trying to say that the 05 KJs may be a bit longer than previous year KJs.

KJ Willy · **Posted:** Sun Oct 23, 2005 11:34 am

I thought the 05 where longer I did't realize it longer outward, I have an 05 also and will be getting BB sooner or later and would like to know also?

KJ04 · **Posted:** Sun Oct 23, 2005 5:12 pm

Adam, mine are behind the front flare and in front of the rear flare. If you would have been looking the other way, you'd see I'm 6 inches short also. :lol:

hoss75 · **Posted:** Sun Oct 23, 2005 5:56 pm

Yeah yeah yeah, we did our Halloween run today.. and busted out my passenger-side cargo window! Wonder how much this is gonna cost me? LOL

KJ04 · **Posted:** Sun Oct 23, 2005 6:26 pm

Probably not as much as my front housing cost. :cry:

I bet you fogot to take your horseshoe, rabbits foot and four leaf clover with you on the run. I won't ever forget mine again!:lol:

FreedomKJ · **Posted:** Sun Oct 23, 2005 10:16 pm

hoss75 wrote:

Yeah yeah yeah, we did our Halloween run today.. and busted out my passenger-side cargo window! Wonder how much this is gonna cost me? LOL

Now this is a story we need to hear!

AZScout · **Posted:** Mon Oct 24, 2005 6:08 am

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Guyute1210 · **Posted:** Mon Oct 24, 2005 2:40 pm

AZScout wrote:

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Wrong one...that's for the door glass not the...

hoss75 wrote:

passenger-side cargo window

spoonplugger1 · **Posted:** Mon Oct 24, 2005 3:06 pm

On the 05s the bottom plastic piece is also the bottom of the fender flares, the 04 and earlier have longer flairs and the plastic trim is between them. That's where your 6 inches came from.

hoss75 · **Posted:** Mon Oct 24, 2005 7:49 pm

FreedomKJ wrote:

Now this is a story we need to hear!

Not much to tell. we were squeezing betwen a couple tight trees and the trail was at a slight downhill slope to the right and it was very slippery. I was clearing the trees fine but then my rear end slid down the slope a little and the tree kinda arched outward at just the right hieght and pushed in the window with a loud CRACK! Oh and I got a quote today for $250 plus tax installed.

macgyver · **Posted:** Thu Nov 03, 2005 11:38 am

hoss75 wrote:

Is there a reason the Boulder Bars are so much shorter than the MOPAR Rock Rails? When I had my MOPAR rails on they went from wheel well to wheel well, but the Boulder Bars stop about 6" short in front and back of the well.

Also, since there was never an answer. There are 2 reasons. 1. The length was all about UPS shipping. If the bars were longer, they wouldn't fit in the box for shipping. I would have made a bigger box, but it's already oversize, and bigger would have drove the weight and the shipping size into more shipping dollars, not just a couple but a lot. Much bigger and heavier and they would be truck frieght. There was one more reason too. 2. If they were longer, there would have been more leverage on the mounts, and we were afraid to put that much leverage on the unibody

We did design and test these things before we released them

hoss75 · **Posted:** Thu Nov 03, 2005 9:26 pm

Thanks Quinn, I figured there was a reason, I was just wondering what it was.

Bouler bars a good bit shorter than MOPAR rails...

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