The Nissan Path

dcommoncents

Inside the back drawer; pretty decent room to store all my weird hiking/survivalist crap:

http://i571.photobucket.com/albums/ss159/dcommoncents/20161129_201955_zpsus3tejkf.jpg

View of my simple latch to keep the drawer from sliding and the rings I added to fill in for the factory cargo hooks ...

dcommoncents

Ok, I finally took some pictures. Hopefully these will help you in your design if you decide to build something similar. I'm going to post them in two posts because I'm not sure I remember how to add pictures and don't want to do them all a second time if I screw up.

So, here is the first view and ...

dcommoncents

I think I am the inactive member to whom Stik is referring, as he PM'd me about this topic back in June. I have been largely, though not permanently, inactive due to being busy over the last 7 months or so with moving, getting married, knocking my wife up, and remodeling my new home, on top of my ...

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Thanks alot for the reply, dcommoncents! I just checked out your previous posts to make sure I didn't miss anything before replying back... Lots of good stuff. Your truck looks great, by the way!

About how many miles do you have on the lift?

Did you do your Airlift 1000 install before or after ...

dcommoncents

Man that came out NICE!!

There's nothing like a little fab work to get the blood flowing!! :twisted:

Thanks, a little blood sweat and tears, too, but I wouldn't do it if I didn't enjoy it! Tell all your friends that I'll make them a pair of sliders. The only catch is someone would have to pay me ...

dcommoncents

Thupertrooper wrote:what ever you do keep us posted im looking forward to seeing ideas come to life.

Too many ideas, too little time! I'll certainly post to share my ideas and what I learn along the way.

dcommoncents

Oh geez, I have plenty of plans. You might be sorry you asked lol. Most immediately though, I'll be making skid plates that will go over the transfer case area and over the gas tank out of some 1/4" aluminum plate I have. Also, I'll be reverting to my youth by installing a 10" sub and amp in the ...

dcommoncents

Thanks Thupertrooper. I don't expect them to stay pretty, but want to avoid corrosion over the winter as much as possible. With all of our hills and crappy weather, Pittsburgh makes pretty liberal use of rock salt. As you can see from some of the pics, I ended up using a hybrid of my wrap-around ...

dcommoncents

Ok, I was finally able to get the first slider mounted over the weekend. I originally primed the slider and then coated it with duplicolor bed armor. However, the bedliner either wasn't fully cured, or doesn't like to be applied over primer, because after I first installed it a week or two ago, the ...

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The brackets are 1/4" -- way stronger than the rest of the sliders, but I didn't want them to bend too much when I crank down on the bolts that will connect the open ends of the "U" shape across the top of the frame. Incidentally, they also make up a good bit of the weight. Before the brackets, I'd ...

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The project is continuing slowly but surely. The next step after I had both slider bodies ready was to fabricate the brackets and attach them to the frame. Here's a pic of the front bracket, which bolts through a stock hole on the frame and a triangular flange holding a cross member near the ...

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Here are some update pictures. And yes, I know how to have a good time on a friday night!

I painted the first slider last week, but didn't have any pictures. Here it is next to the second slider, as I prepared to add the cross braces:

http://i571.photobucket.com/albums/ss159/dcommoncents/IMAG0241 ...

dcommoncents

Nice, those look pretty sturdy. Have you had any problems from having connections to both the body and frame - i.e. transmission of engine vibrations or impacts to the sliders into the body? Looking at how you made mounting tabs for the body connections gave me an idea to use a similar connection in ...

dcommoncents

Nice design and nice welds
I made my own also and i actually bolted mine through the frame in 3 different areas.
I don't have pictures of mine uploaded but ill try and get some soon to see my way.
Good job

Thanks. I've only recently started hobby welding, so although wire welding really isn't ...

dcommoncents

Thanks. I'm not sure what you mean by stock mounting holes, but if I'm missing something, please let me know! I would love to learn that I'm missing a simpler solution. There are holes that pass all the way through the sides of the frame, but I don't think they're for mounting anything. As you know ...

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