As some of you know, I purchased the Trail Gear rock sliders to mount up on my rig quite some time ago. Finally got around to mounting them this sunday.

I started by first removing the coating of oil/grease that came with them. This grease prevents oxidation. Removal was extremely easy using Lacquer thinner soaked paper towels. To protect my skin, I wore nitrile gloves. I highly recommend the thinner to anyone who needs to remove grease from metal.

Next we positioned the sliders on the rig by simply using standard jack stands & when necessary excess metal stock to fine tune the fit.

Next we cut the legs to the right size. Since the sliders were mounted higher than the frame, we had to cut the legs at an angle using a horizontal pivoting band saw. While I didn't need to adjust the angle if you were a little bit off, you could easily grind it down to fit.

For the 2 rear legs (or four if you're counting both sides), it was a simple angle cut.

For the 2 forward legs, we had to extend the mounting tubes and cut a compound angle (2 angles on 2 axis) which was an interesting process on that saw. In the end we got the angles right by using a grinder to fine tune them.

I have pics and will post them up later this evening once I have time to go through them.