STINGN wrote:
daspes wrote:
Didn't Think there was a difference between the 45RFE and 42RLE tranny's as far as skid mounting though... Mounting points on the crossmembers are in the same location.
The skid still fits, but there are these little tack mounts that slide into the cross member but its not on a 02-04.
I think the early models and the later CRDs shared those little tab slots (and not the gassers in the middle for some strange reason). On the back side, the hole pattern (where the stock nutzerts go) is different as well, though. I just went though this saga with Skid row as none of the rear mount holes lined up with my crossmember even though the skid is supposed to be universal. The company was legitimately unaware of the change and was nice enough to give a full refund even though I scraped it up a little trying to squeeze it in there to fit.
I picked up a secondhand mopar skid from another LOST member last week and it has the tabs that slide into the engine crossmember AND the rear holes lined up perfectly with the stock location, so it was either made for the early models or for the CRD, as I think the difference in the rear crossmember bolt pattern goes along with/if you have an auto tranny model (RFE or RLE- based) and not just the year.
Regardless, unless they're talking about "with no modifications" it would probably work on any model year, just with greater or lesser amounts of drilling. I wasn't personally going to drill completely new mounting holes for a skid that is SUPPOSED to fit. I'll bet Tomken would explain if ya called them
Dan
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