Bolt on slider torque recommendations?

probably true lol.

The main reason its such an important aspect to us is because of the conical washers. Don't tighten them and they come loose and you get arcing. Over tighten them and you crush the washer, bus can't expand and contract and then it can break the bolt or make it loose and you get hot spots.

Its not that important with the sliders, but hey why not do it anyways lol.

 

Is "tight as fuck" a numerical value?

 

Only in SAE, not Metric because Murica.

 

Wish I wouldve bought y'alls sliders, your skid plates are legit fam....

 

I found the electrical engineer! Worked with them for years designing NEMA rated control boxes. I use to design huge equipment that was all PLC based controls.

 

It's all good. Glad you like the skids. We can't win them all!

 

I didn't even know who your crazy ass was until the group buy. Buddy got some for his truck and after looking at the bolt on design I'm sure it's the toughest I've seen.

 

We get that a lot. We are still the new guys in town when comparing to the rest of the established rock stars on this site. Everyone builds such nice stuff!

 

Well I can't tell you whose sticker is on my rear.... window

 

How about you guys make a 3rd gen front bumper.... I'll be a test subject....

 

PLC are nice, sadly I don't get to see them much anymore

 

I've seen a lot of posts lately of ppl looking for lightweight, light duty sliders; whatever those are. Maybe you could sell your current set to them and get our sliders since we are really in the business of doing light duty.

 

Well mine are already scratched to hell, but don't put it past me!

 

I would've loved to have mobtown sliders. But RCI was easier to get up here

 

I was between mobtown and SOS, I just couldn't pass on the special that SOS was running.

 

Yes, they are Demello's. I had them drill the frame and then bolted them on myself after I painted them. Slight angle up if at all. I really like the clean look up close against the cab and no, didn't lose any clearance.

 

Something called function and that's subjective depending on the individual need. I'm an outdoorsman so the analogy goes, do you wear "heavy duty" mountaineering boots boots for running a marathon? You can but you're better off in light duty running shoes. Heavy duty doesn't necessarily mean better, it has to be functional. All that to say there is a purpose/ need for both light and heavy duty. Case closed.

 

Thanks! Based on your observation does it appear drilling will make a huge structional difference? Extra few bolts is what it comes to when drilled?

 

Everyone is free to buy whatever product they think fits their needs.

Surely there's a minimum barrier of strength required to fill that function (i.e. dropping a truck onto a rock). I'm not sure how you define it, but that's a pretty burly thing to do. The forces involved in even a gentle drop onto your sliders is tremendous. I classify it as a heavy duty application regardless or whether you specificly go to the trail looking to crawl on rock or if you bought your sliders for the off chance you'd hit a rock on a fire road. The functional requirement is the same (I think there might be argument that the fire road scenario could be worse since you are likely going faster and more likely to encounter the rock unexpectedly). It doesn't matter whether they get beat on everyday or once a year. They still have to handle the loads required. The sliders don't need to be beefier to handle it 100x vs 1x. So back the original point, I think the analogy is more like this: You are going to drop a big ass rock on your foot, do you want to wear sandals or would you like a pair of steel toed work boots. How large the boulder is or whether it's thrown or simply dropped or how many times it's dropped on my foot doesn't change my decision.

Hope everyone has a good weekend.

 

Wait a minute...OP READ the instructions. Dude! you can lose your man card for that kind of stuff.