Thread: Side steps fitment

All the genuine and aftermarket steps I have seen leave the skirt in place and most fit under the skirt/trim strip. ARB side steps fit level and oustside of the skirt. All but the ARB units reduce the ground clearance, often by more than 2 inches.

Genuine steps have brakets and hardware to mount from the body to chassis, attach points. Most aftermarket jobs (kingsley etc) have "tek screws" at the top and 6mm bolt and nut at the bottom(drilled through the body sill seam joint) of each bracket (3 x step) ARB steps mount at 2 points to the chasis out riggers.

If you want to keep the sliders maybe you could weld some extra brackets to these?

cheers

Originally Posted by strangy

If you want to keep the sliders maybe you could weld some extra brackets to these?

Yeah, what I'm thinking is two options at the moment, the first is to hit the wreckers and find some reasonably decent and correct size side steps and fit them to the rock sliders or to completely make my own (I'm thinking checkered plate top with steel under for the support) - either of these options will as you have pointed out, have the advantage of not reducing ground clearance.

I have had 2 different types of steps.

The originals were made by a mate for me, and mounted below the plastic sill.

When these were ripped off in an accident (Disco - 1, Hyundai - 0) I had a set of Kingsley fitted as part of the insurance. These were fitted below the sill as well, but I found them too low.

I have since removed the sill, and put the Kingsley back on. It took a bit of cutting, but they fit well.

With them mounted a little higher, I now dont have the ground clearance issues I had before.