My T4R:
2019 4Runner Off Road - Stock suspension and ride height. 265/70 R17 Falken Wildpeak At3W tires (factory size).

Order:
I placed my order for RSG angled, powder coated sliders with no top plate on May 6, 2019. I promptly received an order confirmation email with theestimated ship date of between 5 and 6 weeks.

Five weeks and two days later I received a UPS Ground shipping notice with tracking information. 6 days later the sliders were delivered. Actually they were thrown out the back of the UPS truck onto my driveway by the delivery driver. I was sitting at the back of the house and heard loud clanging and thuds at the front of the house. I saw the UPS truck pulling out of my driveway as I walked outside. The slider boxes were tossed in the middle of my driveway about six feet from the sidewalk (4Runner was in the garage with door closed). Thankfully RSG packed the sliders very well in thick boxes and the powder coat was in perfect shape.

Installation:
Installation Tools: Floor Jack, scrap piece 2"x6" pine board, Towel(pad slider on jack), pneumatic ratchet wrench, 12MM and 13MM sockets, torque wrench, plastic pry tool (remove plastic frame plugs).

Installation went smoothly following one of the online videos. Took longer than many of you will take because I'm anal as hell, heat index was over 100ºF with humidity of 80% and I'm getting old and tired of crawling around under cars. All of the holes on the sliders lined up perfectly with the threaded holes on the frame.

The only installation problem was one of the threaded frame holes on the driver side lined up behind one of the KDSS lines. I was able to lift the line up enough with the floor jack in order to have the bolt head clear while tightening. The line doesn't come close to the bolt head after installation so no worries about it rubbing through. This issue was no fault of RSG.

There's around 1/2" vertical adjustability when installing the sliders. I installed mine as high as possible. Measurements below are with the sliders as tight up to the body as possible.

Sliders as steps:
The sliders definitely work as a step. People that say the RSG Sliders are at the same height as the entry rendering them useless as a step didn't measure or they're 6'4" + and don't need a step. Installing the sliders 1/2" lower will make them even easier to use, but reduce clearance. My wife said she wouldn't want to use the sliders as a step while wearing heels. She doesn't wear heels much, so no problem there.

Weight:
I weighed the factory running boards on a shipping scale.
Factory running boards (my T4R is an Off Road, but the running boards had SR5 stickers on back): 34.6 pounds including hardware.
RSG Sliders: Advertised at 100 pounds (net weight gain 65.4 pounds)

Before


After




Top of slider to top of doorsill (sliders as high as they will go): 4 1/2”


Ground to top of Slider : 17 1/16”


T4R body to outside of Slider tube (next to passenger seat): 4”






Ground to top of slider at kickout: 18 1/8”


T4R body to outside of slider at kickout: 6 1/2”

I have the exact sliders in my garage i'm getting ready to install in a week or 2. I wish I could see your photos on this computer because i'm sure they'd be a help to me. did you use locktite?

ok, I can see them on my phone, they look good, I'm glad I went without the plate now!

You seriously need to file a complaint with UPS. Even if the packaging protected the sliders, that driver needs to respect what he's delivering.

Thanks for all the pics and measurements. That is really helpful.

I live in the 4th floor of an apartment. I heard the UPS truck drive up, so I went down to tell the guy we could just toss them into my garage. I bumped into him when the elevator opened up. He was bringing both boxes up to my apartment door, lol. The boxes were in bad shape, but the driver was all about that delivery quality.

So did mine!

I bolted down 2 bolts on each end of a slider. No Loctite or torque wrench. Just tight enough to hold the slider in place where I wanted it. Then I bolted all the other bolts down to spec (24 ft lbs) with blue Loctite on them. Then I backed out the original 4 bolts, put blue Loctite on them, and bolted them down to spec.

Repeat on the other side.

I just got mine on as well.UPS totally hammered both of the boxes on mine as well I had some powder coat damage to both sliders.UPS SUCKS!!

+1 for this issue. That's the only bolt I didn't install because I didn't feel comfortable pushing the lines out of the way enough to get the bolt into place. I have no worries with one bolt missing. Everything else lined up perfectly otherwise!

For those asking about loctite, I chose anti-seize. The bolts all come with lock-washers which should be fine for keeping things tight. Worst case I check them once a year.

Sorry to hear about that. I was surprised they didn’t beat mine up even though they really tossed the boxes around.

This thread is very helpful, I now know I will be going with RSG sliders when the time comes.

You just convinced me to order the angled

@ProfessorP can you give us an update on the sliders? How do you like them?

What sort of update do you want? Like have they fallen off? Have they turned orange? Have they shrunk from getting wet?

The angled RSG sliders are nice and I liked them a lot.

Unfortunately, after the Dobinsons lift my wife decided that they were too high up to make a safe step for her. I was having to work a little harder that I wanted getting in and out too. We’re in our 50s now. In our 20s they probably would’ve been fine. We even have close friends that hike and off road with us fall climbing up in our 4Runner and the wife almost hurt herself badly.

I replaced the RSG sliders with Victory 4x4 Strike sliders. They’re flat and have step plates. This lowered the step up by about 2” which made a big difference. My wife is 5’3” and our 63 year old friend is shorter.

Thanks for the great feedback. I was going to go with the angled one without plate but after talking with my wife she preferred the one with the plates. Looks like a decent compromise lol