What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

But how were your upper and lower ball joints, good condition?

 

That's correct, these are the same as the 4WP sliders. I believe 4WP sold all the IP to Smittybilt for these, the front & rear bumpers, and a bunch of other parts. Similarly to what redneck said, these were a no brainer bargain for $300 bucks. With that said, I wouldn't pay $1400 for these, ever. IMO these wouldn't be worth anything over $600 new. The quality is decent but the hardware it came with could have been a lot better. They welded nuts to plates that you insert into the frames and those welds were shit. Had to reweld them after a few broke after tightening. My biggest gripe was the 4WP logo cutout (that's now a Smittybilt logo) has a small gusset underneath it that's only tack welded inside the slider. That weld broke pretty quickly leaving that gusset to rattle around inside. By far one of the most annoying noises. I cut the logo out and cut off as much of the gusset as possible and just rivnutted a plate overtop of it to keep it looking clean. If I ever need to replace these sliders, I'm going with a real US based vendor that makes quality stuff.



If you like the looks of these sliders, Saints Offroad has a similar looking slider that's built much better and those guys are super friendly and helpful.

 

5100 set is live and ready to ship on my FS thread. Ships from SC.

 

One side lower was slightly sloppy, all the others felt tight.