Frame stiffeners and rock rails?

bwfdrums · Jun 7, 2008

So here is my situation. I just bought some currie frame stiffeners but now im worried if I put them on, can I still put on my rock rails?

hopefully I can get pics soon or somthing. The stiffeners are the jeepspeed type. If that helps any. They sort of look like this.

http://www.tandjperformance.com/products-bpp-xj-chassiskit.htm

so after I put these on I hoped to put these on
http://rustysoffroad.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=rustys&Product_Code=RA-RR22-XJ&Category_Code=xj_skid

Is it possible??? please help.

-sean-

bmyohn · Jun 7, 2008

You would just have to cut off the mounting brackets on the frame side of the rails and enough of the square tubing to compensate for the thickness of the stiffiners...i just have the square tubing of the rails welded straight to the rails and its even stronger then it was before. So you will be just fine.

xjtrailrider · Jun 7, 2008

I have the Currie JeepSpeed stiffeners, I had to make my own sliders for them. Nothing else would work. On my new rig I went with the Detours slider/stiffener combo and in my opinion that is the best way to go. But just in case you still want to persue the curries with sliders here are some pics of my work.

I still have this Jeep but it is in storage now.

The Detours are the way to go, you get both and its a 2 hour install at most!
Mine are not on yet but here they are waiting to go on the rig.

arctycfox · Jun 7, 2008

Sweet rigs, man!

srimes · Jun 7, 2008

arctycfox said:
Sweet rigs, man!

x2!

Do you think one does a better job of stiffening than the other?

FordGuy · Jun 7, 2008

You can also make them where you can remove them like I did. Little extra time.

dave92cherokee · Jun 7, 2008

Your best bet would be to first stay away from the extremely overpriced rusty's rails. Give aj at ajsoffroadarmor.com a call or email and a few pics after you have the stiffeners in and he can build a set of rails to fit with the stiffeners for easily 100-150 less than rusty's.

xjtrailrider · Jun 8, 2008

srimes said:
x2!

Do you think one does a better job of stiffening than the other?

Not sure yet, I'll know in a couple of weeks. I can tell you that Mark at Detours only makes top quality stuff and he tests it out to extreme before selling it. The JeepSpeed stiffeners do just fine and my homemade sliders have held up to some hard hits

AlabamaDan · Jun 18, 2008

Cool Stuff guys!

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