3 piece 1st gen Tacoma, 3rd gen 4runner 3/16" Steel Skid Plates

Bump with a skid sammich.


I can double up shipments on skids and ship cheaper through Fastenal. Gather your buddies.

 

just curious, what is the original price for a set if we werent doing the GB?

My buddy isnt getting back to me so I may just bite the bullet!

 

Probably high enough that budbuilts would seem affordable. This is seriously the lowest, best price I'm ever going to achieve. I went through some legwork and pulled a couple strings with a local company and got the price to where I can offer you guys a deal like this.

125 pounds of steel itself isn't cheap, cutting it on a precision laser that was $800k new, and the manual labor for all the bends makes the price add up pretty quickly.

 

OK! OK! I think im sold

 

$440 a set now!

The list:
1. XCMTB83
2. M2Wild
3. Email customer
4. Email customer
5. Ferny

Additional orders:
1. kmok - transfer case skid only + reinforcement
2. cdj1 - transfer case skid only
3. Redneck92 - transmission and welded transfer case skid
4. bpkrules - transfer case skid only

 

...skid looks a little flimsy. How about a shot of the skid with some weight on it.

 

On my computer software I put 25000 lbs on the transfer case skid and get less than 5/16" of deflection. It's not the same as dropping your 4000 lb truck on a sharp rock like you jumped it and hit the rock before anything else, but I can't duplicate that.

 

At 50lbs each these are far from flimsy. I have a set on my truck..,...

 

I was talking about the transfer case skid and that was all. T-G seems to think that 3/8ths steel is a little more appropriate than 3/16ths and have been doing it for a while longer than this engineering student has.

Put a jack under it.

When I went out to Moab I had never come close to touching the factory T-case skid, when I ran Top of the World, underrated trail, I managed to hit the factory skid and mash it flat, and that was the only part of the truck that touched. I don't know when it happened on TOTW, but it definitely didn't happen on any other trail that I was on out there. Shit happens quickly when you are wheeling, make sure that the products can do a minimum amount of real world protection before you are selling something that "looks" like it will hold up.

 

I don't know what this proves for you, "putting a jack under it", but I don't have a transfer skid in my possession at the moment to even try it on. Anyhow, here's a simulation with the correct steel and about 97% accuracy to the real world material qualities and fixed in the same locations as on the truck. 25,000 lbs of force on a 1" diameter point in the center of the skid left to right, and near the rear where there isn't any mounting points. This would be comparable to jacking here, no?

Total deflection of 0.044" at the maximum point.



Trail gear probably uses 3/8" because Chinese steel is trash. Budbuilt, Skid Row, Metal Miller, and others seem to think 3/16" is a good choice for skid plates. I can cut one in 3/8" though if someone wants 3 times the weight.

Please continue to bash the product. It doesn't bother me. This is what I offer and I stand behind it.

 

How big are the self tappers that hold it?

My Budbuilt is 3/16" (IFS) but it isn't stretching across the whole frame like the T-case skid that you designed does, I think that is the difference. No reason to get your undies in a bunch, just wanted to see what it looked like in real life, not virtual reality.

How long have you been in engineering classes?

 

The self tapping screws are 3/8" diameter. 3 per side. 1/2" bolts mount it up front. I offer angle iron reinforcement for the people that would like the extra strength piece of mind across the span. It's stated in the original post.

 

Hey Ryan, what exactly are "angle irons"

noob question, i know..lol

 

Angle iron is a piece of steel bent 90 degrees for added rigidity.


This is what the transfer case skid would look like with angle iron reinforcements welded to it. Sorry, I should have put this in from the beginning in case people were wondering.

 

I was about to post that Google IMG :beer:

 

Ahhh ok...Thanks Ryan. any down fall if one were to not do an angle iron? I would imagine these things are pretty damn sturdy anyways

So my friend who was gonna build my skids finally got back to me. I told him about this deal and he said, "well shit, for that price you better go with him"

LOL, So i am in for sure now!

 

I don't see any downfall without the angle iron, but some people might wheel hard enough that they would want the extra peace of mind of a extra strong skid.

 

Any chance you can do .25" Aluminum?

 

Do you really want to pay like $1500 for a set of skids? Aluminum isn't cheap. But yes, I can do steel, stainless, or aluminum.

 

It might trap water, mud or rocks. The T-C skid is already more beefy than the Skid Row ones. If nothing else, upgrade to 1/4" plate should do the trick. But I just don't want the extra weight.