Well Sunday arrived and some clear skies with it. Wayne and I got stuck in. Stevie was also very busy on his FFR 50-169 fitting a console, a battery isolator, UHF etc... so it looked and sounded like a workshop most of the day.
The rocksliders were fitted up to see where we needed to adjust the mounting holes. The rear mounts were no problem but once we had the rear bolts on things were sloping downward at the front mount so we had to modify the front bolt hole on the mount tab. It needed nibbling out and rat tailing to enable the slider to sit aligned horizontally with the body panels toward the front. See photo attachment "G".
Each slider has:
[front] single mount below the side of the firewall (the panel the door hinges swing off) and its mounted using the firewall-to-chassis long bolt (need size 19 metric socket or ring spanners).. See photo attachment "E".
[rear] twin bolt mount up flush on the side of the chassis outrigger. See photo attachments "F", "H".
The rear mount also has a laser cut shape looking like a capital letter "L" which you will see in the following photos. Its purpose is to accommodate the part of a body support mount that sits out about 10mm proud of the outrigger. See photo attachments "I", "J", "K".
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Also to be noted is that the sliders fit a GS model much more simply than a FFR.
The hassle on the FFR is the lid for the Aux Battery Locker on each side of the Perentie.
Rick at Kingpin said that one FFR has deleted the hinge from the lower side of the lid and then employed more budget locks on the sides. This problem is where we have to do some thinking about alternatives and we'll deal with it later.
The sliders do not protect the fuel tank on the driver's side or the exhaust muffler on the passenger side. I see the purpose of these "sill bars" as being to protect the body from trackside stumps, boulders or logs in slippery muddy conditions or the like where the vehicle slides sideways due to off camber roads or drains etc.