Making skid plates for my Gen 2

[Toasty]

So after a bunch of years with my battered heavy gauge steel skid plates on my Gen 2 I have decide to shave weight and go to stainless steel skid plates. With the stainless being more resilient than steel I can afford to run a lighter skidplate without sacrificing the protection I need. I want a lot of maintenance free years out of these because I don't plan on replacing them any time soon. The front plate I run is very small and connects to the sway bar mounting tabs, I don't run a sway bar and these mounts are very strong. I use the front plate to push things and slide up obstacles so it needed to be hella strong. Also got a friend helping me make a full size stainless front skid plate for those days when a sway bar is needed.



The second one, is just the stock plate made out of stainless and 1/8" shorter mounting flange on the back side so that when I make the new transmission skid plate it will still lay flat on the IFS crossmember like stock. For now I just added some washers so I can run this while I design the new one.



You can see how it wraps around the crossmember perfectly.



Turned out great. Man, wish I could sell a bunch of these to my pals... What do you guys think?

 

[tlr]

Awesome job! I'm ready to order!!!

 

[Toasty]

Sorry, but some other guy seems to have you covered here ---> Skid plate link

Guess i'll get back to working on more skid plates, Good luck with your build. :coffeedrink:

 

[Offroadmuch]

Great product! Smart design. Watch out though because it looks like the guys in that link stole your picture, it even has the same stains on the cement...
(Kidding)

 

[JohnnyBfromPeoria]

Technically, the stains would be on concrete in that picture. Cement is an ingredient of concrete. But I nitpick like that.
Nice skid, Toasty. I want to rock one. How stainless is it? I mean, will a magnet stick to it? Because I like magnets.

John B.

 

[MummifiedCircuitry]

Technically, the stains would be on concrete in that picture. Cement is an ingredient of concrete. But I nitpick like that.
Nice skid, Toasty. I want to rock one. How stainless is it? I mean, will a magnet stick to it? Because I like magnets.

John B.

I bet you're fun at parties.

 

[RyanY]

I bet you're fun at parties.

He IS the party.

 

[JohnnyBfromPeoria]

I bet you're fun at parties.

And I'm huge in Japan.

John B.

 

[jeep-N-montero]

Man, I really need to stop spending so much on the boat and give Monty some love, those skids are sexy!

 

[snare]

That looks great

 

[Toasty]

Thanks guys! I'll answer these questuons soon and post up a comparison pic next to a stock plate