CJ: Questions about Rock Sliders

[headhunter]

I really need to put some rock sliders on my Scrambler.

It seems that there are 2 schools of thought with these.

Some sliders are attached to the body and others are attached to the frame.

What are your thoughts about which way is best?

Thanks.

Christian

[Dukes69]

Body mount. Stronger, no loss in ground clearance

[peteyg]

I've been beating on my Sun Rockers for years, and they are body-mounted. They hold up really well, and do not compromise ground clearance at all.

[Materdaddy]

Trust me when I tell you this... I hit my body mounted rockers HARD last Saturday. No damage to the rockers or the Jeep... maybe the rock. I think people 50 feet away felt it. I know I sure did.

Body mount. Stronger, no loss in ground clearance

Also, Chris knows rockers!

[dirtman13]

x2 or is it x4...what they said. I'm running the Warn body mounted and they have been hammered and are just scratched.

[USMC 0369]

Trust me when I tell you this... I hit my body mounted rockers HARD last Saturday. No damage to the rockers or the Jeep... maybe the rock. I think people 50 feet away felt it. I know I sure did.



Also, Chris knows rockers!

[COLOR="Sienna"]I witnessed this...holy cow. x6 now on the body mounted rockers.[/COLOR]

[JeepGal]

Well...it took a bit to find it, but find it I did!

http://www.jeepforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=134553

This is probably the BEST READ on rocker protection that you will EVER FIND.

Its long, and sometimes heated, but very very good information.

Tam

[OU812]

WOW. I alwayse assumed the frame mounted ones were stronger. Than again I assumed that Materdaddy's were frame mounted. And I watched him bash those things last weekend.

[headhunter]

Thanks for the replies everyone!

Special thanks go out to Tam for finding and posting that link to that rather long, but very informative thread. I read the whole thing. I think that read is going to save me money in the long run!

That thread gave me enough knowledge to understand what I'm looking at in rock sliders. In fact, it was way more than an answer to my more simple question and I'm thankful for that.

It looks like I'll be going for rock sliders attached to the tub. Unfortunately, it didn't look like Rock-It Man had rockers prefabbed to fit my Scrambler.

The thing that I hadn't thought about before reading that thread was how a slider attached to the frame is actually just a big lever attached to my frame that in theory could twist it. I guess that could be avoided by creating a complete belly plate with sliders attached to it, but I'd still lose about 2" of clearance and add a lot more weight.

You all really do rock!

Christian