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<blockquote data-quote="clemsonjeep" data-source="post: 747365" data-attributes="member: 6317"><p>Next on the agenda was building a skid plate. I'd never had a skid plate before since the Samurai tcase was mounted in the Zuks Off Road Snatch cradle and was tucked up pretty high. With the new cases the Dana 300 hangs below the frame rails a little less than 1.5 inches so I decided to build a skid plate to protect it. Before, the stock case was divorced so if it got bashed around it didn't have much effect on the transmission or anything ahead of it, but now I've got two cases hanging off a transmission...so landing on the Dana 300 wasn't something I wanted to try out.</p><p></p><p>I found some heavy wall 1.5" rectangle tubing at the metal supply and picked it up. Then I agonized over what I was going to use for the skid material. Of course everyone says use AR400/500 or skin it with aluminum and then put some UHMW on it. This is a Samurai based buggy...let's remember that. I'd picked up two large pieces of scrap steel a few years back. One was 1/8" thick and one was 3/16" thick and I'd been using them for different projects as they came up. Luckily I had just enough of the 3/16" to cut the shape I needed to skin the frame I built for the skid and only had to fill in a small section. So 3/16" steel is what it'll be!</p><p></p><p>This thing took much longer to build than I ever anticipated since I kept coming up with something else I wanted to modify. I bent up the front and rear lips and braced them which is what took over half the total time involved.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]117504[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]117505[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]117506[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]117507[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="clemsonjeep, post: 747365, member: 6317"] Next on the agenda was building a skid plate. I'd never had a skid plate before since the Samurai tcase was mounted in the Zuks Off Road Snatch cradle and was tucked up pretty high. With the new cases the Dana 300 hangs below the frame rails a little less than 1.5 inches so I decided to build a skid plate to protect it. Before, the stock case was divorced so if it got bashed around it didn't have much effect on the transmission or anything ahead of it, but now I've got two cases hanging off a transmission...so landing on the Dana 300 wasn't something I wanted to try out. I found some heavy wall 1.5" rectangle tubing at the metal supply and picked it up. Then I agonized over what I was going to use for the skid material. Of course everyone says use AR400/500 or skin it with aluminum and then put some UHMW on it. This is a Samurai based buggy...let's remember that. I'd picked up two large pieces of scrap steel a few years back. One was 1/8" thick and one was 3/16" thick and I'd been using them for different projects as they came up. Luckily I had just enough of the 3/16" to cut the shape I needed to skin the frame I built for the skid and only had to fill in a small section. So 3/16" steel is what it'll be! This thing took much longer to build than I ever anticipated since I kept coming up with something else I wanted to modify. I bent up the front and rear lips and braced them which is what took over half the total time involved. [ATTACH type="full" alt="IMG_20200322_121942.jpg"]117504[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="IMG_20200318_182804.jpg"]117505[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="IMG_20200322_123321.jpg"]117506[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="IMG_20200325_231257.jpg"]117507[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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