TRD Pro Skid Plate on SR5?

I do not want to loose my Chin for the same reasons, plus looks like a pain in the arse to remove and re install skid plate with stock Yoko's and no ramps. How is the skid plate mod working out?
I may need to do the same.

 

Absolutely. You'll just need a few minutes with a Dremel to notch the air dam out around the front of the TRD skid plate. If a lot of your driving is on highways the dam is a good thing to have. If you're doing serious off road, not so much but it does come off or on in under ten minutes.

 

Those fumoto valves just appear to be a risk/hazard in my opinion. What's the clearance between the bottom of the valve and the skid plate? The engine mounts allow the motor to move under torque and G forces and the aluminum skid plate can be bashed upwards during wheeling as it's a sacrificial plate... so unless it's >2" of clearance I personally wouldn't do it.

 

Nvm, I ordered a pre owned TRD skid plate on Ebay and going for the chin save install that I seen here on onther thread.

 

Working out fine. No issues at all changing oil. Sometimes I have to pull the oil filter out at just the right angle to get it through the hole but that's it..

 

There is 1.5 inches of clearance from the valve's OD to the openings ID. And an inch from the tip of the valve to the bottom of the skid plate. This is the

$40 F133N with LC-10 F-Series Large Body FUMOTO® Valve with Long Nipple and LC-10 Lever Clip for M12-1.25

F133N, with the long nipple. So if you have the short nipple version, you would have 1.5 inches of clearance all around.



I have had my Fumoto since 2009/10, and was on my Corolla then. In 2017, I totaled the car, yet the Fumoto still kept all that oil in.

Since then I transfered it to my Taco, when I changed over to the F133N, it went to my roommate's Corolla Cross. Still going strong after 24 years.