Reinforced 4XGuard Sliders

[Matt]

While most of the strength of these sliders comes from the pinch weld... I wasn't happy with the tiny aluminum rivets they supplied to mount the upper section under the doors. I put my sliders to the test and they performed great, BUT there is always some movement on hard impacts; and I ended up shearing every single aluminum rivet.

So I got some heavy duty 3/8-16 rivnuts and installed 3 on each side. When I installed the rivnuts I also used JB-Weld on both sides to help reinforce the sheet metal and to ensure the rivnuts didn't spin out when torqued down.





The middle bolts need to be shortened to ~3/4" because of the pillar. Yes, I used white silicone caulk to make it look more "finished". I added a few washers in between the body and slider since they don't sit perfectly flush and didn't want to pull the rivnuts through the sheetmetal.

[Core XK]

Nice! So I guess you decided against selling or having tubes welded?

[Matt]

Still looking into welding tubes on. This was one of the things I wanted to do before adding tubes so they're stronger to help with the added leverage.

Now that I don't have to fight the rivets, it only takes ~10 minutes to take them off.

[pjmjr508]

I have the edition that had sheetmetal screws & don't like that. This will be great.

[Matt]

Yeah I can't say I'd like sheet metal screws either! Rivnuts with some JB are the way to go. Grabs a lot more surface area and the JB adds some stiffness to the area as well.

The hardest part is making sure you don't get JB on the threads. I used plenty of antisieze just in case

[valpacer]

Looks good Matt, and a definite improvement.

However, these are still relying on the strength of the sill and frame, which inst that strong.

This is mine after a trip earlier this year.



We are looking at using the subframes we are making to mount the long arms to to tie the sliders together under the Jeep, that way they cant get pushed up without bring the whole undercarriage with it