Rock sliders and steel side steps same thing?

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Rock sliders and steel side steps same thing?

Post by heeple » 01 Dec 2016, 1:18 pm

I'm not quite clear on if "protection steps" and "rock sliders" are different names from different companies for the same thing on your 4WD?

Same or different? And how so?
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Re: Rock sliders and steel side steps same thing?

Post by AusTac » 01 Dec 2016, 1:59 pm

Sliders are usually that, built to be bashed and are usually solid as, steps are just there to help you in and out and won't cope more than a little rock is you bash on them, likely to just fold up into your sills
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Re: Rock sliders and steel side steps same thing?

Post by Noisydad » 01 Dec 2016, 2:50 pm

What Austac said. You could put a hilift jack under a rock slider a lift that side of the truck off the ground where a side step would be ripped off.
There's still a few of Wile. E Coyote's ideas that I haven't tried yet.
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Re: Rock sliders and steel side steps same thing?

Post by ebr love » 01 Dec 2016, 3:39 pm

Sliders are made to take the weight of the vehicle and protect it completely (within reason) from whatever you're sliding over. Rocks obviously :lol:

Protection steps offer more protection for your sills than factory steps, usually quite a bit more, but they're not really load bearing.

What you can mount them to is one part, doesn't matter how strong the slider is if the chassis isn't really designed to support it. And vehicle weight.

A 2 door Wrangler weighs something like 1,750kg, with 2 adults in it you're talking about maybe 1,900kg, not an enormous amount of weight.

A 200 series Toyota is like 2,800kg empty. Add a few people, bullbar, eksi, camping gear and so on and you're talking about 3+ tonne easy.

It's just to much for a little ole' step.
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