Question about Mobtown Bolt on slider install

That long handheld welded nut on the driver side took me forever. Finally asked the wife for assistance since her hand is smaller and could fit better.

 

Is the nut on the long handle or the bolt? We changed at some point to put the bolt on there. Makes it a lot easier.

 

Yeah the bolt, that's it. The handle works great it's just my hands couldn't in between the frame rails so I enlisted my wife's help.

Great product Mobtown. Love those sliders.

 

Must have some bear paws for hands! I remember that squeeze, lucky you your wife is willing to get dirty

 

Damn! Good looking truck. I'm not usually a fan of red vehicles, but I'm digging it.

 

I have Trump hands...meaty palms-short fingers...

It wasn't a big deal, she spent about 15 min helping on the driver side and about 5 on the passenger side.

 

Damn, I installed my @Pelfreybilt bolt on sliders myself and I was done in less than 2 hours.....

 

Thanks! Nothing but red and black on it for the most part!

 

We added a bunch of extra bolts and clamps to make ours stronger. Takes a little more time, but the end result is pretty nice.

 

I put down a piece of OSB/plywood then a Milk-Crate set the slider on the milk crate with the hole for the cross member bolt exposed, and slid it under the truck, had to tilt the slider a bit as I was moving it in, so the clamp flange would slide under the frame.
Then stuck a 2x4 under the slider on top of the milk crate and it snugged up nicely to the bottom of the frame. Finger tightened all the bolts, eyeballed it to make sure everything was fit-up nicely and then pulled out the ugga-tugga machine.




I spent most of my time confirming which brackets to remove and which holes were which. Since I had not spent a lot of time under my truck the instructions were confusing until I had my face under the truck and a general idea of the slider flange fitment.

I think with the milk crate method or using a motorcycle/ATV lift I could easily do a second set in under an hour in a driveway by myself now. I really is easy... once you've done it. LOL

2 milk-crates/ATV lifts and
45mins would be a breeze,
20mins a hustle,
and 10mins with a handful of coke. (Thinking of that Deadpool2 scene where he puts the baggie under his mask and smacks it).

So why does it take the Mobtown guys so long to install a set?

 

Yours also wrap around, and box the frame. Distributes the torsional loading though the whole frame C section, across a longer area....
That will decrease deflection and drastically increase loading potential for the system.

Beautiful design and build for these sliders. I just used satin wheel paint on mine, easy to touch up and fairly durable.
On the underside I just use tremclad with a brush to cover up any scuffs from my excursions.
LOL they've already paid for themselves by preventing door-dings.

 

lol, you talk like a mechanical engineer... except deflection means it already yielded. what u meant to say was likelihood of deflection. jk, im just busting your balls.

and dont start with me about elastic deformation, cuz aint nobody got time for that

 

For this step:
Step 14: Place the 3/8-16 bolts through the square washers, then from the inside of the chassis, slip the bolts through the chassis cutouts where there are 7/16” diameter holes in the rock slider flange. The chassis will have an assortment of large holes and large rectangular cutouts in it where these bolts will go.

How many square washers and bolts should go on each side? IIRC I only found two holes each side they would fit. There were other holes in the frame, but the slider had the oval cutouts so nothing for the nut to hold onto with the washer on the chassis side.

 

3-4 per side. Mostly 4 but sometime late 2016 Toyota removed a hole in the chassis leaving 3 per side

 

Huh, I only found 2 that lined up on my 2017 OR also.

 

Please send pics. I’ve installed sets on a 2017 a couple times now and was able to get 3 per side.

 

I’m 100% sure that deflection is just the amount the material moves under load (could imply a change of shape). It doesn’t indicated that it has permanently deformed (yielded).

 

Over the MobTown logo are the only two holes that lined up for the extra square washers and bolts on my 2017 TRD OR.

 

This is correct. Metal deflects all the time. Hitting yield is when the material will start to deform, or take a set.

Here's the wiki article on yield for those who are interested:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yield_(engineering)

Also, google stress-strain curves to learn more about it.

(I see you understand this stuff jowybyo, just throwing it out there for others)