E-Z Rockrails
 

I've seen a few designs for rockrails on here, thought I'd share mine, it's simple, effective, looks good, takes almost 0 ground clearance, and doesn't cost much or take much time.

I bought some K & S aluminum tube ( available at most any hobby shop) 1/2"x 0.35


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I then took it to the table saw and made a slit down it.



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cut the length and angled it to fit wheel wells


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I'm going to use it for my rear bumper also.


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shown installed on my other 1:6


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I squeezed them a lil with a pliers, (my tablesaw blade was a lil wide) and glued mine on, they could be screwed, glued or anyway you see fit to keep them on.
These protect not only the side of the rocker but the botton as well, they also slide off objects very easily.

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Photo Edit: Here is the bumpers I made to match my rock rails, I left a space open cause I have an idea for a winch design.



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Installed on my other 1:6

Troy



1:1 89 XJ with 3" lift 31" MT baja claws, dana 44 r-locked,Dana 30 f-locked, ect ect
1:6 2 Jeeps (3rd warranty on the way) 1 stock except paint and lights, 1 for R & D on my mods
1:18 2 one Jeep stretched wb, one Scorp stock
'N' scale (1:160) model railroader 27 yrs.
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'N' scale pickup

Now THAT is a clean rockrail. I've thought about making a set of some kind for mine, but didn't want to add weight, or ugly, non-scale rails or hardware. A simple slit tube is strong and light, and looks like it'll stay on well.

I've seen a bunch of good looking rock rails on here lately, but if I add any, I'll probably follow yours. :mrgreen:

These are the ones I made. They work very well. I cut about an inch off the bottom of the body then put these on. It is just 1" alum. angle, very light but strong. The little bit I cut off has helped through a few tight spots.

e_z rockslides
 

Yep, saw those posted in pix, very nice, those are what gave me part of my idea, many thanks!!

Troy

Sorry, I didn't mean to talk down on yours. That is a great and simple design.

Both ways work, simple and they both look good.

If ya don't have a table saw its not so E Z then... again I'm not dawgin as that looks pretty slick, but I don't have access to a table saw. I think doing that with a dremel would be kinda hard.

Sorry, I posted this thinking most everyone had access to a table saw, I guess if I didn't I'd try and make some kind of a jig to hold the tube and run my dremel down, might be more difficult though, or Scouts rails look great and I can see in pix they work well.

I like how your setup looks, more like a rock rail look. Then chrome rocker panels...

Not dawgin on yours either Scout, when I decide to do mine I'll show ya all what I did... I wanna do something though cause I wanna try and keep my body out of the rocks as best as possible.