JTCO
Meme King
Bombs away!
Looks good.
Oh no...all those holes!!!
Never too many holes.
Bombs away!
Oh no...all those holes!!!
Those look really good!
Nice! Can't wait to see those Trail Tested. Also, I may be sick but I love doing nutserts.
Oh no...all those holes!!! I’m guessing they’ll get trailrated soon. [emoji106]
Those look damn nice! Let’s see how they hold up.
Those look good!
Looks good.
Never too many holes.
I love that look!
Those look great. After watching a side airbag deployment on Pritchett from an impact to a rock on body mounted sliders I’m too nervous to go that route now.
Can you remove them and just run the skin if you want to change?
Wonder why EVO didn’t counter sink the body mounted hardware this round.
If I could guess, it's so that you can have more wiggle room. Drilling into the body perfectly can be tough and it's easy to install a nutsert just a bit off. Tapered counter sunk holes would demand a greater level of accuracy or at least, to make them look good once installed. Button head bolts with washers would allow you to have slightly bigger holes and ones that could be hidden by the washers and everything still looks good. But of course, this is just a best guess.
I bet that’s a pretty good guess and good thinking. I agree it was pretty difficult getting the nurserts perfectly centered.
While we’re talking sliders, will the factory JK rubi sliders fit a JL.
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No. Or at least, I really don't think so. The JL is physically longer and I doubt the mounting points would line up.
Even with a technical job and experience in metal work I imagine drilling and installing the nutserts into the body to be pretty risky. Do you make a How to video?
I am thinking about how to seal the threads and prevent rubbing of the skins on the paint in the case of an impact, causing scratches and korrosion over the time. Are there isolators on the back or something soft?
How do they keep up when you step on them?
Mr.Giant - '92 YJ
Giant 2 - '18 JLUR
We'll have an install video of this coming soon. In it, I show how to do all this. In regards to some kind of isolator, I did not install one. Long ago, back when I still had my TJ, I installed body mounted rocker guards and used a gasket like material that was being sold at the time for something just like this - it was WORSE than just leaving well enough alone. The best thing I can recommend you do is to apply some RTV or other silicon sealant along the edges of the rocker guard. That will prevent dirt, small stones and/or debris from getting in between the rocker guards and body. Having done this on my JK has proven to work the best and I know because I've had to remove my skins in the past and see how things looked like underneath.
That and I put a bead of Clear RTV around the top perimeter of mine on my JK and there is no rust or anything behind there. Granted I live on the west coast and not the east.
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