Hey everyone!!
I have been slowly building my wife’s JK, Luna, and the most recent upgrade she got was “rock sliders”. I put them in quotations because I’m being told that the ones we purchased will fold up into the body of her Jeep during moderate rock crawling. These are the Smittybilt SRC rock crawler guards. They attach to the body mounting points on the frame. I do agree that they are not as stout as some of the other types I’ve seen that mount directly to the frame, but they seem far superior to the ones that mount to the pinch seem.
My question is, is there a bolt on bracket that will reinforce this style mounting setup? Something that bolts to the side of the frame and either to the stock body mount to stiffen it, or to the bracket on the sliders themselves? I thought about taking it to a local fabricator with a design I have in mind, but if there is already an off the shelf solution I’d much rather do that. My wife only hits easy-moderate trails so it’s pretty unlikely for her to smash a rock hard enough to do the amount of damage I’m concerned about, but given my luck… that’s exactly what will happen.
I appreciate any insight you have.
Thanks for reading!!
I have been slowly building my wife’s JK, Luna, and the most recent upgrade she got was “rock sliders”. I put them in quotations because I’m being told that the ones we purchased will fold up into the body of her Jeep during moderate rock crawling. These are the Smittybilt SRC rock crawler guards. They attach to the body mounting points on the frame. I do agree that they are not as stout as some of the other types I’ve seen that mount directly to the frame, but they seem far superior to the ones that mount to the pinch seem.
My question is, is there a bolt on bracket that will reinforce this style mounting setup? Something that bolts to the side of the frame and either to the stock body mount to stiffen it, or to the bracket on the sliders themselves? I thought about taking it to a local fabricator with a design I have in mind, but if there is already an off the shelf solution I’d much rather do that. My wife only hits easy-moderate trails so it’s pretty unlikely for her to smash a rock hard enough to do the amount of damage I’m concerned about, but given my luck… that’s exactly what will happen.
I appreciate any insight you have.
Thanks for reading!!