rock sliders

[Topjanner]

I need some help, how difficult/easy would it be to put some 2" steel box section on to replace the plastic sills on my disco instead of buying rock sliders. Any clues ?????

[landynutter]

guess it depends on your fabricaton skills, i would still get some proper ones though, so i know that they will work

[robzki]

am thinkin of makin my own too

anyone have them and a digi cam?

would be good to get some design ideas

[Jud]

I was going to make some for myself for the LTWT, but saw Mill Services at Old Sodbury last October and was impressed by the price and finish of some he had there for the LTWT. Believe he would do some for Disco. I reckoned that at the price they were offered I couldn't achieve a similar result for much less on a diy basis. I have a replacement chassis on the LTWT and holes didn't quite line up but had both fitted in under an hour.

Details here http://www.mill-services.co.uk/index.html

Jud

[Renny]

Beware that Disco sills are not straight. They curve in height and sideways as well so are a right pain to fabricate accurately to follwo the line of the sills/doors.

[robzki]

erm no they don't

the plastic mud traps that clip onto them are curved :)

the sills are straight on both planes afaik, least mine are

i may be wrong tho. it has happened....once :rolleyes:

[callisr]

erm no they don't

the plastic mud traps that clip onto them are curved :)

the sills are straight on both planes afaik, least mine are

i may be wrong tho. it has happened....once :rolleyes:


But if Topjanner wants to replace the plastic trims with steel box section it will have to be bent to follow the contour of the body else they WILL look stupid. Believe me I have seen it done with just straight box section. It looked crap.
I think that maybe if the box was just bent upwards at the front and back, ignoring the inwaqrd bend beneath the front wing it would look ok.
Rich

[jjsaul]

Ask Geoff. He makes rock sliders.

[Topjanner]

well this has stirred up some issues:rolleyes:

me thinks it might be easier to buy some, thank you all for your comments and expertise:eek:

[robzki]

nooooooooooooo don't go!!

we haven't finished............. :rolleyes:

[Mark Sims]

Wizard on the Discovery Owners Club forum made his own. He has pictures of them on the gallery of said club, don't know if you can see them or not as a non-member. Try posting a question to the non-members board, www.discoveryownersclub.org

regards,
Mark

p.s. if you want springs for the door locks leave a message there as well.

[YUG]

Buy 3 metres of 6mm x 100 mm flat mild steel,3 metres of 10mm x 10mm square mild steel.
take the plastic sill covers off and scribe the length and rear angle onto the 6mm x 10mm.
Cut the plate to the scribed lines and then weld the 10mm square to the bottom of the 6mm plate.
Hold the welded fabrication up to the sill and mark the positions of the mounting bolts,and drill those holes.
Get the fabrication galvanised,bolt on and then pop rivet the plastic sill cover onto the sliders.

[Skyline]

Hi , I bought my rocksliders from Rebel 4x4. They are curved to match the curvature of the bottom of the doors. The actual sills on the car are of course straight. Cost was £180 ish I think. Kev

[robzki]

yug: thanx for that, excellent idea, it seems i have all the tools and knowledge of what to do with them....but no imagination :)

[Renny]

I knew something wasn't straight about things! ;)

[YUG]

but no imagination

It is an easy job if you have the the tools and a saturday afternoon free.
One thing i forgot though, was you also need 200mm of 50mm x 50mm x 3mm angle iron.you will have to make up three brackets (about 25 mm wide)per side for mounting through the existing bolt holes underneath the chassis.
Drill the angle plates,bolt them to the chassis,and clamp the rocksliders to the brackets,it is then easy to tack them together.
I refitted the pastic sill covers over the rocksliders,all that can be seen is the 10mm square steel.

[Saratoga]

Right. Well, this too is something I have planned for the future... So.

http://www.discoweb.org/tech.htm is quite a resource! It doesn't really matter that is mainly Americans on the website, as there are some Europeans use it as well :) :)

Looking at their tech section (Which is in frames) there are listed for Sills (I think...)

http://www.discoweb.org/slider/slider.htm
http://www.discoweb.org/hiddensliders/index.htm
http://www.discoweb.org/mantecinstall/index.htm
http://www.discoweb.org/rtesliders/index.htm
http://www.discoweb.org/hdsliders/index.htm

And there you have it. You should have a look at their Gallery as well :) The only drawback I can see is that they have listed them as per users first name and it would have been nice if they had sorted it out to, say, years. I'll probably make up a list for myself at this rate for based on years so I can see the difference.

No doubt there will be other companies that will offer a solution within the UK that might be better for you, but otherwise I am sure there is something around that you'll find and like :) Good Luck!