BudBuilt Sliders

Absolutely, I need to get more pictures anyway to better articulate some items in the installation instructions. Our Tacoma is out of the shop right now getting a baseline of how much movement is in the stock driveline. We need tons of information when we redesign frames for tummy tucks. It will back next week and I'll get them up.

 

kool thanks, as i am on the market for rock sliders to be put to use in Moab this summer!!

 

Some frame side pictures for everyone. I put them in black and white as it helps show more detail against black frames than colored pictures.

Driver side. Notice the full length and full height 3/8" plates. A sophisticated plate arrangement allows a continuous plate while working around the existing frame fasteners toward the from of the frame.


Below is rear to front picture of the passenger side. Legs for days, 7 of them, 5 gusseted, front and rear legs are triangulated to minimize deflection.


Below are some of the visible inner 3/8" frame plates (many more deep in the frame or hidden behind other components). They use 3/4" Grade 8 fasteners and spread the load across the frame rail. They don't fight against the Tacoma's C-Channel frame rails like boxed mounting designs and L-shaped brackets. To further emphasize on the long explanation earlier in this thread, we are working with a Toyota Truck frame. If this was a boxed Toyota SUV frame, we take a different approach. But Toyota very smoothly transitions their truck frames from fully boxed to open C channel. And a great way to introduce frame cracking, is by disrupting that. That's why we build with the Tacoma's frame design, not against it. Notice toward the left of the frame how Toyota builds in a half moon cut on the boxed portion. Then moving right toward the next crossmember, how the rolled the top and bottom edges are cut short around that crossmember. Those are just a sampling of many examples in the 3rd Gen Tacoma's frame. If we abruptly placed a block in the c-channel, in a frame that is designed, and WILL flex quite a lot, all we would end up doing is placing an immediately transitioning point to stress, and aid in fracture the frame rail over time.