Installed the Rusty's gas tank skid and a rear hitch. Also sand blasted re-painted and re-installed Rusty's rock rails.. The gas tank skid is pretty beefy. It fit perfect. You have to remove the factory tow hook (now for sale). One great tip I got was to run a 12mm x 1.75 tap through all of the mounting holes 1st to clean the threads. That way I was able to finger tighten all the bolts


I'll post a few pics:

Here's Rusty's rock rails after six years of abuse!



After sand blasting and priming



The new skid:



Mounting points on the drivers side (notice the close fit of the hitch and the skid plate)



Installed (the ATV jack works great for this job - also notice the wheels are off the ground and the skid is supporting all the weight...)

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2002 Salsa Liberty
Rusty's 2.5 spring lift
Rusty's RockRails and Diff Guards
Skid Row belly skidplate
235/85/R16 (32") Maxxis BigHorns
ARB rear locker
Detours BackBone Front Recovery Point and Winch Mount
Superwinch EP9000

Looks good

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03 Sport 3 inch lift 31x10.50 15's on Black rock Crawlers The one happy ROCK KRAWLER customer

Looks nice.

Be careful with that hitch. Since it doesnt use all 6 mounting points I would tow anything close to 5k with it.

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Thanks for the advice - mostly plan on it as a recovery point for now. If/when I ever buy a camper I'll get a bigger hitch!

Also only had grade 8.8 bolts available locally - I need to replace them some 10.9's

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2002 Salsa Liberty
Rusty's 2.5 spring lift
Rusty's RockRails and Diff Guards
Skid Row belly skidplate
235/85/R16 (32") Maxxis BigHorns
ARB rear locker
Detours BackBone Front Recovery Point and Winch Mount
Superwinch EP9000

thats what i noticed! you would really want to replace them before you tow or do recovery

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SOA, D44/ FF14B, SBC 350, SM465, NP205, 108" WB, 37" MTs

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That skid plate is huge

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Have fun out there.

2003 Cactus Green Renegade w/ NP231 & NV3550
Al's 4th Gen UCAs
Custom 3.5" Lift
Rear DTT
Spidertraxed 245/75/16 Maxxis Bighorns

It just fits around the tank / not too much ground clearance loss

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2002 Salsa Liberty
Rusty's 2.5 spring lift
Rusty's RockRails and Diff Guards
Skid Row belly skidplate
235/85/R16 (32") Maxxis BigHorns
ARB rear locker
Detours BackBone Front Recovery Point and Winch Mount
Superwinch EP9000