Idaho BS thread in the PNW

Hell making a tub bumper would be easy easy. IF..you know how to bend good..i dont ha i don't have a bender..so i guess really it depends on how much you trust the guy..would hate to see you come away with something you don't like. Steel isn't super cheap..

 

Great photography Ian. Nice work. What a beautiful place you went to.

 

On the 1st gen the BB belly skid mounts to 3 places with 8 or 9 bolts. The belly skid is very long. It runs from the steering rack to well past the t-case. The front of it attaches to the rear of the IFS skid. The middle attaches to the transmission crossmember and rear end of the belly skid attaches to the crossmemeber Ben was asking about. As you guessed, that BB crossmember bolts to the frame and spans the frame rails.

I think I paid $575 + shipping. I think the total came to ~$660.

 

So I was looking up the chalk test and came across a lot of threads that said it didn't work and to use this formula. (I also came across vice versa, haha).

((vehicle weight)/(max tire load weight*4))*(max load psi)

You find the specs of your tires for the max load and psi of that load. For my KM2's it is 3415lbs @ 80 psi. Take the weight of your vehicle, mine weighs around 5200lbs with me in it. You divide your weight by the max tire load*4 (since your weight is distributed among 4 tires) and multiply all of that by the max load psi.

Mine is: (5200/(3415*4))*80 which comes to 30.4 psi in my tires. I did a little more math and found that my tires go up 1 psi for every 170.75 lbs the vehicle weighs.

Any thoughts on that formula?

 

Yea i like how the Skid rows are made better tho then the BB.

instead of the one long ass belly skid, which is the weakest one and the one pron to bending. The Skidrows run up to the actually tranny cross member so you actually don't loose that much clearance and the T case skid looks like the way its built it'll hold up better..granted you have to drill the frame tho..

 

interesting..wish i knew how much my truck weighted..id give it a go.

only thing i feel like is left out is tire width and load types. I mean..my tries handle weight way different then your do due to the fact they are A) wider B) load range C instead of..E?

 

Yeah. I wonder how this formula would work out for my car as well.

 

ya i know what you mean. but the thought of getting a bumper for only the price of steel at cost is very tempting. I certainly wouldn't want to spend 200 on steel to only have it come out like shit. this is a very good pic of the all pro one i would have him try to model it off of.




such tough decitions

 

yup

 

Repost Ben sheesh..lol

and its a gamble man..id want to see him do something before he did anything to my truck.

 

Yeah i sorta got mad at budbuilt when he didn't answer any of the 6 emails i sent him to the 3 different email accounts he had about doing a group buy

the front ifs skid is a lot beefier then the bb skid imo and its easier to get it all up there in 3 pieces instead of that giant belly pan.

 

How did it line up with the Elite bumper??

don't forget shipping..

 

I've heard that ppl on ttora talk shit on the bbs because they can't handle the abuse.... but thats coming from guys that run in unbelievable places

perfectly snug with the elite bumper... i think the 4wheel guy gave me free shipping

 

as long as you got some skids your good

off to work cya friday

 

Trail gear makes the best Tcase skid of course you have to cut out your entire cross member to replace it with the thing hahaha

See ya steve!


God its 3 am..and i can't stop watch tutorials on this audio stuff

 

im only rocking a home made skid plate under my tcase and that's all ive ever needed. ill never understand the rest of it, just seems like alot of weight to me.

 

Ben why not just fab your own?




Edit: Nvm lol forgot your not big on fabbing..

 

I feel ya there. I miss my welder...but eh birfmas is tomorrow maybe ill get that instead of the new gun...hmmm decision decisions

I want to build my own skids because the factory ones dont line up perfectly with my bumper (which I knew would happen to do my initial wreck and the custom stuff I had to do on my bumper to make it fit correct).

 

yea after two body shops...

Cant expect perfection tho. Obviously once that much metal is bent it will never be perfect again.

More of an excuse to just go all out on it as a trail rig once I graduate and get some moniez.

 

no way lol


And here I was thinking I was unique