Custom skid plate

jeepmedic46 · **Posted:** Sun Apr 05, 2009 7:52 pm

Thinking of building a skid plate starting at the front and going all the way past the transmission. It will be 3/16 steel. Wondering if this is a good idea.

JeepinJarhead03 · **Posted:** Sun Apr 05, 2009 7:58 pm

would prove easier to build it in 2 pieces to make removal easier when doing services and what not and would make meeting the mounting points easier since it's not flat by any means

do you have any skids at the moment?

jeepmedic46 · **Posted:** Sun Apr 05, 2009 8:03 pm

No skids at the moment. My next door neighbor is going to help me with the skid plates. We thought the skid plate would be good as a kind of ramp as well when scraping something. Do you think it would be to heavy?

JeepinJarhead03 · **Posted:** Sun Apr 05, 2009 8:08 pm

no such thing as too heavy! there's only "oops I should have made that heavier"

djui5 · **Joined:** Tue Jun 17, 2008 1:38 am **Posts:** 536

icefisher45 wrote:

No skids at the moment. My next door neighbor is going to help me with the skid plates. We thought the skid plate would be good as a kind of ramp as well when scraping something. Do you think it would be to heavy?

Might wanna do one from the front to the cross member, and another back from there. Also put a skid over your gas tank

JeepinJarhead03 · **Posted:** Sun Apr 05, 2009 8:18 pm

if ya pretty good with a hotwrench and a welder and a tape measure and level then i'd totally go for it

jeepmedic46 · **Posted:** Sun Apr 05, 2009 8:33 pm

My neighbor is good with a welder. He actually wanted to go all the way to the back. and skid the fuel tank as well.

JeepinJarhead03 · **Posted:** Sun Apr 05, 2009 8:41 pm

you can do a 1 piece from engine to tranny, just heavier to handle for services, thus why i'd personally do 2 pieces that bolt in the same spot

wouldn't be impossible at all to do it and have service holes or even covered service holes

the mopar engine skids pretty tough, but the tranny skid leaves alot to be desired. i recently crumpled my tranny skid and so did JJsKJ

ya gonna fab it as you go or build a sketch?

i think one of the superskids was a one piece engine/tranny skid

jeepmedic46 · **Posted:** Sun Apr 05, 2009 8:48 pm

Going to build a sketch. The 2 pieces is a good idea, Thank you

JeepinJarhead03 · **Posted:** Sun Apr 05, 2009 8:54 pm

just tryin to help!

the one piece is do'able, you'd just most likely end up needing a jack when removing it!

i'd have to assume getting a good fit would be easier with 2 pieces

do you have a transfer case skid? could do the tranny & transcase as one piece, and engine as one piece

jeepmedic46 · **Posted:** Sun Apr 05, 2009 9:09 pm

Right now I have no skid plates.

JeepinJarhead03 · **Posted:** Sun Apr 05, 2009 9:17 pm

ahh , gotcha

well get to scribblin and measurin! can't wait to see how it goes

i've gotta decide if im buyin a new skid or makin one myself for the tranny

jeepmedic46 · **Posted:** Sun Apr 05, 2009 9:19 pm

I want as good a skid plate as I can make. Not able to lift it this year and want to wheel with it..

JeepinJarhead03 · **Posted:** Sun Apr 05, 2009 9:27 pm

it seems to be more of where and how you brace the skid, INC uses a stock mopar tranny skid reinforced with angle iron i think, JJsKJ had reinforced his mopar tranny skid too and it still tagged his oil filter

I was thinkin of usin rail road spikes to reinforce my next one
if i can figure out where i put them :lol:

jeepmedic46 · **Posted:** Sun Apr 05, 2009 9:31 pm

Thank you, Hoping to make it as bullet proof as possible.

JJsTJ · **Posted:** Sun Apr 05, 2009 10:03 pm

hmmmm.....i don't remember ever bending up a Jeep tranny skid....i musta been out wheeling during another out of body experience!

Think i'm being confused w/someone else..... :lol:

tommudd · **Posted:** Sun Apr 05, 2009 10:13 pm

JJsKJ wrote:

:? hmmmm.....i don't remember ever bending up a Jeep tranny skid....i musta been out wheeling during another out of body experience!

Think i'm being confused w/someone else..... :lol:

all of you lifted KJs all look the same you know, easy to confuse who is who :roll:

JeepinJarhead03 · **Posted:** Sun Apr 05, 2009 10:13 pm

Oops haha
I meant JL Rockies

i was lookin at JJsKJ's magazine feature when i saw the post and switched the names around

jsc7002 · **Posted:** Mon Apr 06, 2009 11:12 am

I would make the 2 skids in 2 pieces, I made my trans skid though and I used 3/16" sheet and then I welded on 1x1/8" angle running all down the sides for strength and to help it slid better and it works great! and I cut a hole so I could still change my oil w/o taking it off.

jeepmedic46 · **Posted:** Mon Apr 06, 2009 11:42 am

jsc7002 wrote:

I would make the 2 skids in 2 pieces, I made my trans skid though and I used 3/16" sheet and then I welded on 1x1/8" angle running all down the sides for strength and to help it slid better and it works great! and I cut a hole so I could still change my oil w/o taking it off.

Thank you, I will weld on the angle. That is a good idea.

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