Leonbmx
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- 2022 Rivian R1T, 2020 Tesla MY
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- Boeing Design Engineer
I agree, while the sliders themselves look really good, the first thing I saw when looking at the mounting locations was that it has a single row of fasteners, so no way to counteract leverage, other than the bolt heads. (or the doors, once the slider bends upward enough to make that a counteract point)The 'sliders' I had bolted to the frame exactly the same way (from the frame bracket into the body).
The only reason I got rid of them was because I added a body lift which created a ~1 in gap between the 'slider' and the body, creating way too much flex/leverage at the bolt because it no longer rested along the body.
But again, so much weight leveraged like that at the bolt head could create problems if you were seriously using these as a slider. Find some titanium bolts and you'd be alright!
Now the bolt heads are larger than standard bolt heads, but if those fasteners were not designed to take the shear loads from the moment of a prying slider, they would fail real quick. And my guess is that those are designed as tension fasteners.
Oh, and definitely do NOT get Titanium bolts, they would be weaker than the OEM bolts.
With all of that said, it is good to see more options pop up! Maybe this will get rid of some of the "rivian tax" that seems to be on a lot of the aftermarket parts.
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