The folks at Red Noland have been great to work with. They did some paint touch-up on 2 spots that were flawed on delivery and they centered up the steering wheel that was slightly off center. I'm quite satisfied with the steering now, no change needed.
Abenteuer 4x4 Rock Sliders:
Installing the sliders was not quite as easy as I'd hoped. They posted a
video showing how to do the installation. I installed the first slider according to their instructions and had a bit of a hard time. Some of the bolts are quite hard to access and it's hard to hold some of it all together with just two hands. I installed the second slider a bit differently -- I attached the mounts loosely to the slider rails before attaching the mounts to the frame and found it much easier. The only other deviations I made from their instructional video were to use a multi-tool to trim the plastic bits in the wheel wells, I used some anti-seize on the bolts, and I followed the lessons learned by
@TheDocAUS and used 50mm bolts to ease installation of the front mount and added some square washers to the frame mount bolts. If you're going to install these, make sure you have a 17mm offset box wrench, ideally a ratcheting one. I did not and it made the job much more difficult. I'm very happy to have this install completed.
One of my main concerns with these sliders before ordering was that the inner rocker is not overly protected. It's still a bit of a concern, but the rocker is above both the slider and the frame rail, so the only way it will be hit is if one tracks the tires over a particularly pointy rock that exceeds the break-over angle. It's very much a possibility, but also wouldn't be the end of the world. Looks like it would be pretty easy to bolt some steel over the thing using those holes all along it, but I likely won't bother.
The step is narrow, but just wide enough.
