The "Welding" day

[XJ4IV]

Well for a while (about two years now) I have been wanting sliders and I finally came across someone (rguignard) who was willing to help ... or actuallly Do the fab work for me for free just bring a case of beverage and we were fabbing away. Anyhow this isn't really a writeup cause every jeep is slightly different as far as dimensions and this is a "custom" set of sliders to the specs I wanted.

Also Rene wanted to get his winch installed too so I took some pics of that process as well.... here are a handfull of pics

First off ... can anyone see my sliders in this pic?
http://i372.photobucket.com/albums/oo167/seivey/Welding%20Day/HPIM2896.jpg


There they are!!
http://i372.photobucket.com/albums/oo167/seivey/Welding%20Day/HPIM2897.jpg

Cleaning up the endcaps
http://i372.photobucket.com/albums/oo167/seivey/Welding%20Day/HPIM2907.jpg

making the front angle and filling the gap
http://i372.photobucket.com/albums/oo167/seivey/Welding%20Day/HPIM2905.jpg

http://i372.photobucket.com/albums/oo167/seivey/Welding%20Day/HPIM2904.jpg

Install part 1
http://i372.photobucket.com/albums/oo167/seivey/Welding%20Day/HPIM2910.jpg

ADHD kicking in here .... Look at the pretty shiny transfer case
http://i372.photobucket.com/albums/oo167/seivey/Welding%20Day/HPIM2911.jpg

Other side install
http://i372.photobucket.com/albums/oo167/seivey/Welding%20Day/HPIM2912.jpg

Final pic
http://i372.photobucket.com/albums/oo167/seivey/Welding%20Day/HPIM2922.jpg

here is the winch install now

Rene already spent some time this week to design and cut the plate these pics are just the installation
http://i372.photobucket.com/albums/oo167/seivey/Welding%20Day/HPIM2898-1.jpg

http://i372.photobucket.com/albums/oo167/seivey/Welding%20Day/HPIM2898.jpg

http://i372.photobucket.com/albums/oo167/seivey/Welding%20Day/HPIM2899-1.jpg

all bolted up
http://i372.photobucket.com/albums/oo167/seivey/Welding%20Day/HPIM2899.jpg

Gotta run the wires now
http://i372.photobucket.com/albums/oo167/seivey/Welding%20Day/HPIM2900.jpg

installing the roller fairlead and puttin the hook back on
http://i372.photobucket.com/albums/oo167/seivey/Welding%20Day/HPIM2901.jpg

installed
http://i372.photobucket.com/albums/oo167/seivey/Welding%20Day/HPIM2902.jpg
though we didnt like the little kink that it was puttin on the line on the roller so we moved the hook.

ALWAYS REMEMBER unwind your winch and rewind it under tension these things are just rolled by hand at the factory... this will help in not kinking your damaging your cable.
http://i372.photobucket.com/albums/oo167/seivey/Welding%20Day/HPIM2923.jpg

We also had a few extra minutes to toss in a t-case skid for mine really fast.
research and development and install time total about 20 minutes lol
http://i372.photobucket.com/albums/oo167/seivey/Welding%20Day/HPIM2915.jpg

http://i372.photobucket.com/albums/oo167/seivey/Welding%20Day/HPIM2916.jpg

also cut a notch for the drain plug
http://i372.photobucket.com/albums/oo167/seivey/Welding%20Day/HPIM2918.jpg

Installation
http://i372.photobucket.com/albums/oo167/seivey/Welding%20Day/HPIM2920.jpg

http://i372.photobucket.com/albums/oo167/seivey/Welding%20Day/HPIM2919.jpg

Done!!!
http://i372.photobucket.com/albums/oo167/seivey/Welding%20Day/HPIM2921.jpg
I really wanna thank Rene for taking his time with me and doing these installs for me. I really OWE you one man!!!

[oderdene]

Looks good. Thanks for sharing guys. t-case skid is good idea for me.

[alwaysxj]

looks good i like the two cart xj you guys have.

[XJ4IV]

looks good i like the two cart xj you guys have.

two cart XJ???

[TeXJ]

two cart XJ???

thats what i was thinking lol


Nice sliders and tcase skid! So when do you get to test them out?

[alwaysxj]

i was saying both of you have sliders from a cart so now you have a cart xj you know like a mail crawler or something. J/K looks good.

[TeXJ]

i was saying both of you have sliders from a cart so now you have a cart xj you know like a mail crawler or something. J/K looks good.



wait for it,....wait for it,... eeehhooooowwwwww!


:rotfl2:


just messin with ya

[alwaysxj]

all I am saying is for what it is not bad i just hope they hold of to falling off a ledge on to a rock if they have that kind of stuff in texas.

[XJ4IV]

we aint moab but we have rocks here LOL I took a good look at them and they look pretty good and just ask ANY of my good friends I ALWAYS over do strength when it come to protection on my jeep.
And donner we gonna test them out at BVORR in june you coming??

[rockcrusher]

Great pics.

[Voldemort]

How thick were they ? 1/8"?

[XJ4IV]

3/16 I think