hi
well after a hectic month, going to Seattle and vegas, which btw is NUTS, i finally got my rear bars done,












they follow the lines of the wheels which plenty of clearance for the rear qtrs, went on a trip on sunday and made good use of them , musta be some use all the paint got rubbed off!!!

a couple of pics from the trip







Cheers

Pedro

 

They look good. Protrude a bit much for my taste, but that's just personal preference.

That said, rivnuts are a really poor choice for attachment. They will pull out in short order upon significant impact. When that happens you're going to have a mess and probably need to do some body work.
When attaching sliders to the sill they need to be sandwiched and through bolts used. I'd take out those bolts, drill out the rivnuts and put a plate in the back of the sill.

 

they protude to line up with the tires to provide max clearance to the body work, no point having them if they dig in slightly and then peel the body work apart have seen many side bars and back bars close to the body work that do not protect anything when used in anger.


I figured if I hit something that hard to to pull about 18 rivnuts out then that will be the least of my problems, the rivnuts are on the vertical face of the sill and there is also a line running along the bottom of the sill. so they would need to pull out sideways tearing the sheet metal, which take a power of load to do, the biggest risk i see is rotating the entire sill up which would be a problem no matter what attachment method you used.

Cheers
Pedronz