New skid and 2 inches more clearance

[RAT]

Made me a new transfer case skid today. Grabbed some scrap plate from the scrap heap and went to town.


Yep! That's it, all done.

[womb raider 940]

that's cool.

[Jeeperator]

cmon! you bought that.lol more pics please other side.I need some ideas.

[RAT]

There's more to this than just that skid, but I'm lazy posting pictures. I also made a transmission mount bracket that's 2 inches thinner than the stock one. Made a new transfer case shifter to clear the floor board so I could shove the transmission/transfer case further up. I think I can get the next skid plate completely flat with a few more mods to the floorboard and the engine mounts. I'll post some more pics in a bit...

OK here's the start




Tranny mount bracket, Stock on the right, mine on the left

[xjkevin]

nice work!!

[aw12345]

Looks good Kurt, you might want to add a good cross brace other than that great job. You should be able to go just to a 1" drop, flat might make for a pretty steep driveline angle even with a cv shaft. I did a lot of tinkering with the trans and engine mount to help the driveline angle with just a 1" drop.
Great fab skill though very clean job

[swbooking]

Nice work Kurt, looks like a sweet final product.

[scherf68]

Funny, I did one this weekend, not as pretty though. Still working on it. How did you line up the tran mount holes, having a horrible time with mine.

[Schmo]

Dude . . . you guys ROCK I gots to get me some skills and some tools one of these days! Nice work.

[USMC 0369]

Can't WAIT to get home to read this. Photos wont come up on this puter.

I need to do something, my oil pan and tranny skid are getting beat to smitherines!

[Jeeperator]

Hey rat patrol do you have a 1" body lift. btw awesome fab work.

[RAT]

Hey rat patrol do you have a 1" body lift. btw awesome fab work.

I'm trying to avoid it, but it may come to that if the dimensions don't work out. I can tuck all but two inches of driveline between the rails without a body lift. The other option is major sheetmetal work on the floorboard. It's either that, or 37s baby!

[Jeeperator]

I love my 1 inch body lift and 1" mml. I think I could get all but 1 inch of the trans skid up ther like aw12345 did.

[dirtman13]

What is this custom skid plate month? I just finished mine. Kurt, that looks really good nice work.

[aw12345]

a 2" drop will work fine mine cleared the 6 speed trans that way ( I had a 1" spacer between the frame and skidplate). Once I did a body lift to clear the tank skid I removed the spacers and stuffet it all up where it belongs. You could try but mostlikely will have to perform some surgery with a big hammer on the trans tunnel. MIne has 17" of belly clearance on 32's and a 3.5" RE lift