I figured sliders are just about the most simple thing you can make for your truck. While I like round 4x innovation sliders, I kinda got into the idea of square tubing.
From doing a ton of reading it seems like people do 2” tubing, 3/16 thick. Well I did buy that, but Jesus it’s heavy. So I went back and bought some 1.5” 1/8 thick tubing, which seems plenty stout to me. I also used 4 legs instead of 3, and I made some gussets out of 3/16” flat bar steel that I’m going to weld in.
Here they are, weighing in at about 35 lbs each, upswept at a 15 degree angle. I didn’t even take pics of the finished product not mounted to the truck since I was in such a hurry to get them done before a big trip this weekend:
And a few build pics
I kept it simple and did all the angles at 45 degrees. It did add some extra work because you see I had to lop the top part of the joints off and weld in some filler pieces.
Still though I knocked these out in about 2 days because I was headed on a weekend long off-roading trip to Vermont.