The “My Back Hurts” Thread

Im glad it warmed up into the teens lol it was -12 where I was a few days ago

 

The yoter does not like the 35 and below starts

 

Its a shame you had to De-Idaho your truck though. That made me want to vomit

 

Ha! Try starting at -5

My ultragauge actually told me my battery was over charged durring start up yesterday. No idea what was up with that

 

Embrace the suck

 

Nor cal > So cal

So thats where you spent New Years?

 

Mine was cold, but having my best friends and my girl made it the most amazing New Years i’ve ever had.

 

The hell

 

Mine started fine at -16...but it was in a heated garage lolol

 

Coolio picture

 

I’ve never seen sub zero temps (as far as I remember.)

 

I guess I should daily the old yo-yo for a little while. I’m not gonna want to do it in the summer with my broke ass A/C

 

Did I excite you with my build lol? Now that it’s built, probably late Feb/ March I’ll either go dual 1080ti or Volta, whichever one is best in price during that time, crypts are crippling my GPU game right now.
Build list?

 

Didn't you just get some 1080s? Haha I'm still content with mine yet


May have been someone else now that I think about it

 

Naw not me, someone else was selling there 780 sli setup I believe because they upgraded to 1080’s. I really want Volta but Titan Volta is too expensive so I’ll just wait for consumer Volta or buy 1080ti’s outright when the time comes. I’m still rocking my 750ti right now in my new build.

 

Hopefully this better explains how our skid plates are designed, and some theory behind them.

Skid plates can be made very strong rather easily, yet they still need to protect what's underneath them. Unfortunately the Tacoma's frame engine cross-members are not the most rigid metal components. So when slamming down a 6,000+ lbs Tacoma on pointy rocks, we need to distribute that load across are much wider surface area. If not, your 3/16" skid plates will usually hold, yet the frame crossmember underneath will push inward at that attachment point.

That's why we don't do one piece front skid plates with the common 6 attachment points that cover the entire engine bay area, but rather a two piece design with 8 attachments points.

Imagine all that weight of the Tacoma, coming down on the engine bay area with only 2 sq/in of surface area. That's why we provide 8 sq/in to prevent crossmember deformations.

Now because of the two piece front skid plate, we then looked at the long distance front engine crossmember #2 to the transmission crossmember. Instead of running a single plate, why not run two? So that's why the second engine skid plate travels to about halfway down the transmission pan and ends. The "trans" skid overlaps the engine skid or "mid" as we call it, and the runs to behind the transfer case, and is supported by a .250 DOM crossmember.

That design not only distributes the impact load to every factory crossmember as most skid plates do, but with our overlap design, you end up with not just 3/16" protecting the longest, most unsupported area under the truck, the transmission pan area, but with 3/8" thick metal!

Hopefully that helps, but at the end of the day, if you are out off-roading or overlanding, far away, in remote areas, any increase in protection is better than none to bring you back safely.

There are a lot of good companies out there that will help. We obviously are biased toward our armor, maybe its that engineer in us, or that hardcore wheeler side of us. So please listen to what the forum has good results with, and if you need us, we'll be here for yeah.

 

Thank you for responding, nice to see a company stand up for themselves

 

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