@GavinC , I suspect you are correct about the full upper face of the plastic spacer not making complete contact with the car's frame. That could mean my advice isn’t the best — so don’t follow it, folks!

In my mind, I thought it would act like a washer between the frame and the spacer. Washers are good right? It’s too late to change it for my installation, but I don’t think the extra millimeter or two will make much difference.

 

I'm probably overthinking it and it makes little difference. I just thought the spacers on the Tuffant sliders were a pretty exacting design, a major departure from the design of the others on the market, where an extra 2mm washer on some might mess with the fitment in a less than desirable way.

I'd tend to trust your ideas more as you were under there and fitting it yourself, whereas I'm just theorizing. Seeing ghosts and talking nonsense most probably.

 

Could you please advise as to how much each slider weighs?

 

~66lbs per side per Tuffant (I asked, they emailed me, I did not weigh them myself but it feels about right based on me moving them around).

 

Keep in mind that when installing them you are removing a lot of weight - the metal plates discussed above, the cardboard belly plates, and a lot of brackets, bolts and screws. Your Defender will weigh more once the skid plates are installed, but the net increase won’t be the full 132 lbs.

 

Well why don’t RHD AUS vehicles have the plate?

 

Thanks for the reply Nash. Good to know.

If I’m not mistaken you live in the PNW. Could you please advise as to what they charged you for shipping and whether or not yours shipped from Chattanooga or AUZ?

 

Got mine shipped to me in MT. The container with a ton of stuff goes into Tennessee. I want to say it was a couple hundred to the local freight terminal where I went and picked them up. They were really light weight for my D90. I would have guessed about 50lbs each but I suppose they could be ~60.

 

Probably do. Just on the other side or the same side but called passenger side. The all have AC so it's gotta be there somewhere

 

The key difference Jake (TuffAnt USA) and I observed when he helped me install mine was the lack of an air tank. The installs he observed in Australia went onto air suspension Defenders. Mine is coils.

Mine doesn’t have an air tank, so there were some extra black painted brackets to create attachment points for the felt/cardboard plates. Since we were throwing the felt away anyway, we just discarded the brackets.

Otherwise, my US spec 110 was pretty much the same as the Aussie ones. Just reverse “driver” and “passenger.” The air vs coils issue is likely the same anywhere.