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K9F



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United Kingdom 2008 Defender 90 Puma 2.4 XS CSW Stornoway Grey
I've got the Entreq door sills/entrance strips and fitted a length of extrusion (pretty much the same as the door seals) along the bottom edge of the strip before offering the slider up.

Thumbs Up If you go through life with your head in the sand....all people will see is an ar5e!!

Treat every day as if it is your last....one day you will be right!!
Post #390545 20th Jan 2015 3:15pm
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landy andy



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2006 Defender 110 Td5 USW Zermatt Silver
rallysteve wrote:
Only issue I have with fitting them is that you seem to get 4 shims with them, unforunately (possibly due to the usual build tolerances and the new YRM mid body x-member I fitted) seem to need one shim each side on the rear most mount and 2 or three on each side of the middle mounts!
Steve


Interesting comment. Was the same on my double cab. Had to make my own packers. I used 50X12mm alli that I had in stock. Think I had to use two each side, so had to add 24mm.

Andy
Post #390606 20th Jan 2015 6:20pm
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K9F



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United Kingdom 2008 Defender 90 Puma 2.4 XS CSW Stornoway Grey
No shims or packers supplied or needed on a 90. Thumbs Up If you go through life with your head in the sand....all people will see is an ar5e!!

Treat every day as if it is your last....one day you will be right!!
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Venomator



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Re: Safari Equipment R & T Sliders.
K9F wrote:
I took advantage of Santa Brendan's offer (before he got grumpy again) and purchased a set of these over Christmas. Suffering from mild OCD I requested specifically for "A totally unblemished set with extra packing please!" That is exactly what I got. Thank you Brendan. Finally got round to fitting the first one today, second is planned for Wednesday. As with everything Defender a little 'fettling' was required, due to the fact my wheel width is quite wide and I had moved the mud flaps outward with the Entreq brackets I also had to reprofile the top of the front mud flap to accommodate the slider. Nevertheless as with everything with the Safari Equipment brand the quality is excellent, galvanised and powder coated
Most excellent Mal... Bow down

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Grenadier



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France 2011 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 DCPU Corris Grey
captain slow wrote:
nice Job! Thumbs Up

can't decide whether to swap my bowler sills for R&T sliders, but you have made me think...


Bowler sills..... Thumbs Up Monsieur Le Grenadier

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K9F



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United Kingdom 2008 Defender 90 Puma 2.4 XS CSW Stornoway Grey
I did indeed Venomator..... Laughing For some strange reason I kept thinking about Mach 5s during the ordering and initial fitting process. (I did get them delivered to work and hid them in the garage though!)  If you go through life with your head in the sand....all people will see is an ar5e!!

Treat every day as if it is your last....one day you will be right!!
Post #390692 20th Jan 2015 8:25pm
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Anderzander



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Thanks Andy

I knew about the extra bar - but it seemed that some sliders sit further in than others ...

I'd like some without the tree bars on - but ideally would like them to sit flush like the standard sill does.

landy andy wrote:
You can get them more flush, not completely flush, and they are called rock sliders. Rock and tree sliders have the extra bar for protection.

http://www.4x4overlander.com/product/rock-...ender-110/

http://www.extreme4x4.co.uk/acatalog/DEFENDER_ROCK_SLIDERS.html

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=rock+s...edIndex=54

Andy
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Venomator



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K9F wrote:
I did indeed Venomator..... Laughing For some strange reason I kept thinking about Mach 5s during the ordering and initial fitting process. (I did get them delivered to work and hid them in the garage though!)
Rolling with laughter Bow down Rolling with laughter

And that's another story for another day... Whistle
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Post #390704 20th Jan 2015 8:40pm
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Windowlicker



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United Kingdom 2011 Defender 90 Puma 2.4 HT Stornoway Grey
They look great, very similar ( visually ) to mine , I do not quite know how they vary from one to another, though I do know mine were not galvanised , which I wish they were.

When got mine , I got a mate to paint the box section parts in body colour , as one thing I really didn't like was the way, that when fitted ( or not fitted, just minus the original sills ) it made the truck look a bit odd, where the wing bottom, door and rear quarter basically just stopped , in a sort of unfinished way.
Having painted them , it gives the visual impression of the original sills, but with the sliders sort of sprouting out of the box.

I also fitted a C section adhesive seal onto the box part , then fitted the sliders into place , had to have a few attempts, so as to get the line visually correct, and account for panel oddities.
The end result is so much neater, more factory looking than the obvious gap that was there with them fitted minus seal.
Also cut down/re shaped the mudstuff dirtDfenders, as I bought them before the sliders , realised they wouldn't fit , but as I had ripped all the packaging they couldn't be sent back, so just attacked with a blade, dremmel, and sandpaper, then got them painted also.
The gripper tape I fitted is 50mm wide, and is the remains of a roll I got with my D3 sliders.
Rather than have a 90deg square edge to it, (which looks crap, and leads to the corners lifting) I got a repairwasher that wash the same width, though an aerosol orang appropriate radius will do, and with a blade cut around them,leaving a nice semi circular finished end to the tape, then similar for the laterals sticking out x2.

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Supacat



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leeds wrote:
You will find them useful in supermarket carparks you know.


That's not going to please the OP if he doesn't get some protection on them first Whistle
Post #390783 20th Jan 2015 10:23pm
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Anderzander



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Great attention to detail there Windowlicker ....

Can you explain a bit more about the C section seal ? Did you for it into the back edge of the slider so it concealed the gap above it ?
Post #390794 20th Jan 2015 10:30pm
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mick



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I have a pair on mine from S E good kit

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Post #390803 20th Jan 2015 10:46pm
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Windowlicker



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United Kingdom 2011 Defender 90 Puma 2.4 HT Stornoway Grey
Hi Ander,

As when I first fitted the seal, I messed around a bit finalising the position , were I to do it again, I would pretty much final fit the sliders, then when happy that they are staying "just" there, I would either chalk or felt tip a line longitudinally following the panels bottom.
Then remove the slider ( degrease with brake cleaner or similar , the slider ) then warm up the paint if very cold, and sit the roll of C section seal on the radiator first before fitting.
This seal was 14mm C section, 3M adhesive backing and very supple.
It just deforms/squashes when compressed, and pops up and in fills the gaps where needed.

I couldn't live with it not fitted , as the gap just looks bizarre and very unfinished if you see what I mean.
I also used the same seal, to run the full underside of the bonnet also,which nicely seals against the wing tops when bonnet is shut and stops loads of crap/water getting into the engine bay.

I have been calling it C section seal, when it was in fact D section !! Duhhh Embarassed Laughing
This is pretty much what I bought, though I thing I got 2 lots of 4 metres , as it's cheap enough, and handy for allsorts.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/4M-D-type-Door-R...5d519b207c

Cheers, Thumbs Up

Nick "Procrastination is the thief of time"
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mick



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Great idea Thumbs Up
Post #390822 20th Jan 2015 11:19pm
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leeds



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We have supplied the Safari Equip Rock sliders and Rock and Tree sliders in mild steel, galvanised and the standard finish which is galvanised and powder coated for 90s, 110's and 130's. There is a difference in the R + T sliders between say 110 SW/HT/USW and 110 double cabs and HCPU etc.

We keep the standard 90 and 110's R + T sliders in stock. Others we get to order. Luckily the factory is only a couple of miles away from us Thumbs Up

Please note we are always dealing with Land Rover build tolerances.


Brendan
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