Unibody Rock Sliders *TESTED*

Inc · **Posted:** Mon Jun 01, 2009 11:19 am

ken wrote:

where were you at ?

The 2 times happened at different times but the jack was on Hunter Lake Trail and the big crease was on Dolores Trail in Reno.

Here is Dolores.

ken · **Posted:** Mon Jun 01, 2009 11:27 am

OOOOOOHH!!! TRAIL RASH :shock:

Makes me want to go even sooner. Only 11 days til trip

Inc · **Posted:** Mon Jun 01, 2009 11:30 am

ken wrote:

OOOOOOHH!!! TRAIL RASH :shock:

Makes me want to go even sooner. Only 11 days til trip

I need to see if I'll be in town for that trip ken. I'll let you know. :wink:

pyrolife2000 · **Posted:** Mon Jun 01, 2009 11:52 am

Inc wrote:

The process was a complete nightmare. It is worth it, but holy crap it was a process. Sooooo glad I am done with them now and was able to pull the jeep out of the garage finally.

This is the pile of metal, dust, dirt, and other junk I used in the process. Quite the pile of garbage after I swept it all up.

Where did you get your bumpers or did you make those too?

Inc · **Posted:** Mon Jun 01, 2009 12:48 pm

pyrolife2000 wrote:

Inc wrote:

The process was a complete nightmare. It is worth it, but holy crap it was a process. Sooooo glad I am done with them now and was able to pull the jeep out of the garage finally.

This is the pile of metal, dust, dirt, and other junk I used in the process. Quite the pile of garbage after I swept it all up.

Where did you get your bumpers or did you make those too?

The rear I had a guy make after I designed it. The front is a Fabtech Prerunner bumper for a TJ Wrangler. I modified it to work on my jeep.

pyrolife2000 · **Posted:** Mon Jun 01, 2009 2:28 pm

Oh good times, I just put a factory TJ bumper on mine

riptricket · **Posted:** Tue Jun 02, 2009 12:24 am

pyrolife2000 wrote:

Oh good times, I just put a factory TJ bumper on mine

pics would be cool!

Inc · **Posted:** Tue Jun 02, 2009 12:54 am

pyrolife2000 wrote:

Oh good times, I just put a factory TJ bumper on mine

So you put this bumper on your KJ?

I'd like to see that as well. How did you mount it? With or without the plastic pieces?

djui5 · **Joined:** Tue Jun 17, 2008 1:38 am **Posts:** 536

Inc wrote:

I'd like to see that as well. How did you mount it? With or without the plastic pieces?

+1 I keep hitting mine on rocks and need to do something about the clearance. Wanna keep it cheap though

pyrolife2000 · **Posted:** Tue Jun 02, 2009 9:57 am

Yeah sorta, it's actually a rear bumper. It was really simple. I just did a little bending of the factory brackets and made some for the bottom. I'll get some pics up soon. I want to relocate the washer fluid tank too. It's really exposed now. Any suggestions?

Inc · **Posted:** Tue Jun 02, 2009 10:31 am

pyrolife2000 wrote:

Yeah sorta, it's actually a rear bumper. It was really simple. I just did a little bending of the factory brackets and made some for the bottom. I'll get some pics up soon. I want to relocate the washer fluid tank too. It's really exposed now. Any suggestions?

For my bottle relocation I went to Kragen auto parts and picked up a overflow reservoir for like 5 bucks. Then I made a cradle out of some steel straps and bolted it to my unibody inside the engine compartment. It was pretty much plug-n-play.

pyrolife2000 · **Posted:** Tue Jun 02, 2009 10:35 am

Inc wrote:

pyrolife2000 wrote:

Yeah sorta, it's actually a rear bumper. It was really simple. I just did a little bending of the factory brackets and made some for the bottom. I'll get some pics up soon. I want to relocate the washer fluid tank too. It's really exposed now. Any suggestions?

For my bottle relocation I went to Kragen auto parts and picked up a overflow reservoir for like 5 bucks. Then I made a cradle out of some steel straps and bolted it to my unibody inside the engine compartment. It was pretty much plug-n-play.

What about the pump?

Inc · **Posted:** Tue Jun 02, 2009 11:04 am

pyrolife2000 wrote:

Inc wrote:

pyrolife2000 wrote:

Yeah sorta, it's actually a rear bumper. It was really simple. I just did a little bending of the factory brackets and made some for the bottom. I'll get some pics up soon. I want to relocate the washer fluid tank too. It's really exposed now. Any suggestions?

For my bottle relocation I went to Kragen auto parts and picked up a overflow reservoir for like 5 bucks. Then I made a cradle out of some steel straps and bolted it to my unibody inside the engine compartment. It was pretty much plug-n-play.

What about the pump?

It basically plugged right in. I'll get some pics for you.

Inc · **Posted:** Tue Jun 02, 2009 12:09 pm

There are 3 holes or openings in the bottle I bought. I put a dowel covered in RTV in 2 of the 3 opening, and then covered the ends with more RTV. The 3rd hole is the one I stuck the pump in. It just wedged in really tight and seals itself with the supplied sealing gasket. For the cradle I just cut and fit it to hold the bottle really tight, and it works perfectly. I just used some random hardware I had in my junk tool drawer.

Here is what it looks like and apparently I need to refill it.

Xodius · **Posted:** Tue Jun 02, 2009 4:01 pm

Did you use your stock pump?

Inc · **Posted:** Tue Jun 02, 2009 4:09 pm

Xodius wrote:

Did you use your stock pump?

Yes the stock one. I broke mine on Bitter Springs and never replaced it, but when I moved it, I bought a new stock pump and plugged it in. I was in the engine compartment messing around and bumped the pump pretty good, so now it beeps and tells me it is low all the time now when I start the jeep. :roll:

SoDakJeep · **Posted:** Wed Jun 03, 2009 5:19 pm

Very nicely done reminds me of that one guy that had full sliders made by Screaming Eagle IIRC.

pyrolife2000 wrote:

Yeah sorta, it's actually a rear bumper. It was really simple. I just did a little bending of the factory brackets and made some for the bottom. I'll get some pics up soon. I want to relocate the washer fluid tank too. It's really exposed now. Any suggestions?

not to take this thread but will you please post pics?

pyrolife2000 · **Posted:** Wed Jun 03, 2009 7:32 pm

Here's the pics of the bumper.

I used the stock bumper to fill in the gap.

If anyone wants a full set of pics and how it's mounted just pm me.
Any comments are welcome good or bad. Wanna know what ya think.

JJsTJ · **Posted:** Wed Jun 03, 2009 8:53 pm

^^

That looks surprisingly good!! I can't believe how well that looks.....

I'm thinking you should start a thread about this budget bumper mod?

riptricket · **Posted:** Wed Jun 03, 2009 9:13 pm

not bad looking at all!

Unibody Rock Sliders TESTED

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