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Originally Posted by CDACamper
@aarcaris those are sweet looking sliders! Will they bolt to the frame directly or weld a flange to the frame and then bolt the sliders to that?
Would you mind sharing the approximate cost for materials and fab labor?
Would you be willing to share your design specs?
Lastly you mentioned a link to a photo album for full skids but didn't see it.
Did I mention those skids look awesome!
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They will bolt to the frame directly. We went back and forth on the best way to mount them and debated doing something similar to the way weldtec does theirs (weld and bolt) but figured just bolting would be easier and accomplish the goal. We had to get a bit creative for the forwardmost mount as the frame transitions from open C frame to fully boxed making it much more difficult to mount the hardware to the frame. I'm guessing this is part of the reason some have gone with the weld to frame and bolt to mount method.
I haven't got the final cost of the sliders yet, but they aren't cheap. Having things custom fabbed by a good fabricator comes at a premium, especially with the cost of steel right now. I helped him out a little bit with getting all the mounting stuff positioned and figured out but I am still paying for 99% of the work to be done by someone else. So all that to say I am betting it's going to be somewhere in the ballpark of $2,000-$2,500. If you had all the skill, tools, and time to do it yourself I guess you could probably cut the cost down to $1,200 to $1,500.
Happy to share some design specs. Anything in particular that you would be interested in?
The link to the photo album is embedded here:
rizzabove's Ujoint-offroad 4x4 camper home brew
His sliders and skids are about halfway down the current first page.
Thanks for the compliment! I'll share some more pictures once I get them back from powder coating and they are all mounted up.