xcmountain80
Expedition Leader
I started at 615am and finished at 715am had no help these weigh a ton! I love it.
Aaron
BudBUilt Skids on my 2002 4Runner
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I started at 615am and finished at 715am had no help these weigh a ton! I love it.
Aaron
DaveInDenver
Middle Income Semi-Redneck
Cool belly pan. I noticed the exposed heads of the bolts. Not sure there's any better way, but seems like those could be beat up pretty bad. Knowing how mangled my diff drain plug ring and stock skid plate bolts get, wonder about them.
xcmountain80
Expedition Leader
DaveInDenver said:
This is true, they will be ok for the crap we have here in FL, trees and what not. But when I head to tellico I will need to either go back to the carriage style bolts with a smooth head or use something like what OMF uses on their beadlocks, which I have yet to find.
xcmountain80
Expedition Leader
Willman said:
Yea they are 3/16 of heft and BudBuilt did a great job! $499 shipped. Its a 2 piece setup belly skid and IFS skid. As for the paint job Im not one for bling or flashy stuff but I like hidden details, the bottom of my roof tent has the same paint job.
Aaron
xcmountain80
Expedition Leader
I'm headed to South FL this weekend and I'm sure there are places around here to do this sort of shot, I know exactly where to go to get the avatar shot. I expect it to look very cool indeed.
Aaron
Aaron
p1michaud
Expedition Leader
Bud Built
Did your come with teh carriage style bolts? Mine did.
I've recently installed a full Bud Built set up on my Tacoma (front skid, additional cross member and belly pan). The majority of the install was used up with cleaning, priming and painting. The actual bolt up was super easy. In fact it was the simplest bolt on mod I've done to date. Bud Built did their homework. I was so impressed that I actually put his sticker on the front of the skidplate and I usually don't like stickers on my vehicle...
I've had the skit out on a few runs with a local off road club and but it to good use. I've hit it a few times pretty hard with no damage. All I can say is thumbs up! :clapsmile
Cheers :beer:,
P
xcmountain80 said:
Did your come with teh carriage style bolts? Mine did.
I've recently installed a full Bud Built set up on my Tacoma (front skid, additional cross member and belly pan). The majority of the install was used up with cleaning, priming and painting. The actual bolt up was super easy. In fact it was the simplest bolt on mod I've done to date. Bud Built did their homework. I was so impressed that I actually put his sticker on the front of the skidplate and I usually don't like stickers on my vehicle...
I've had the skit out on a few runs with a local off road club and but it to good use. I've hit it a few times pretty hard with no damage. All I can say is thumbs up! :clapsmile
Cheers :beer:,
P
xcmountain80
Expedition Leader
The issue was he sent 1/4" carriage when he needed to send 1/2" carriage. The plate was cut for 1/2" and the 1/4" were not able to be tightened. I since have corrected and used hex heads I guess I need to find some rock protection for these. I installed mine by myself the 1st time and it was ok took some doing as they are heavy. I do love them I'm not worried about my vital organs as much thats for sure!
Aaron
Aaron
jeffryscott
2006 Rally Course Champion: Expedition Trophy
Those things are sweet ... they are on my list.
Dirty Harry
Adventurer
p1michaud said:
Mine came with carriage bolts as well. Great addition to the vehicle.
p1michaud
Expedition Leader
Bud Built mod
Bud Built skid plate mod/update.
This past weekend, I had to remove both the belly pan and skid plate to re-build my starter. I had a bit of difficulty removing the two flat head alan bolts as seen here:
Photo credit: ZUK on TTORA from this thread.
My other grumble was that I now needed 3 tools to remove the belly pan and skid plate (9/16" socket or wrench, allen wrench and 13 mm socket) compared to the one tool (13 mm socket) I previously needed with the OEM skid plates.
So I got inspired by something Steve Schaffer (Sonoran Steel Fabrication L.L.C.) had done on his 1989 Toyota FJ-62 Land Cruiser as seen in this picture to protect his bolt head or similarly to what Toyota has done to protect the drain plugs on the diffs of their vehicles.
So I cut a 3/8" piece of pipe with an ID sized to fit a 13 mm socket and welded that to the bottom of the skid plate protect the bolt head. This decreased the tools required to remove the skid plate to two (9/16" socket or wrench and a 13 mm socket). If this does not do the trick, I can always grind the piece of pipe off and return to the flat head allen bolts. So far so good!
Cheers :beer:,
P
Bud Built skid plate mod/update.
This past weekend, I had to remove both the belly pan and skid plate to re-build my starter. I had a bit of difficulty removing the two flat head alan bolts as seen here:
Photo credit: ZUK on TTORA from this thread.
My other grumble was that I now needed 3 tools to remove the belly pan and skid plate (9/16" socket or wrench, allen wrench and 13 mm socket) compared to the one tool (13 mm socket) I previously needed with the OEM skid plates.
So I got inspired by something Steve Schaffer (Sonoran Steel Fabrication L.L.C.) had done on his 1989 Toyota FJ-62 Land Cruiser as seen in this picture to protect his bolt head or similarly to what Toyota has done to protect the drain plugs on the diffs of their vehicles.
So I cut a 3/8" piece of pipe with an ID sized to fit a 13 mm socket and welded that to the bottom of the skid plate protect the bolt head. This decreased the tools required to remove the skid plate to two (9/16" socket or wrench and a 13 mm socket). If this does not do the trick, I can always grind the piece of pipe off and return to the flat head allen bolts. So far so good!
Cheers :beer:,
P
Dirty Harry
Adventurer
Are you at all concerned about the bolt protection getting caught on obstacles on the trail or getting bent over so you cannot access the bolt at all?
xcmountain80
Expedition Leader
Dirty Harry said:
Not yet. I had envisioned using some of the dome shaped washers similar to the ones used on the OMF beadlock wheels. I could just replace it with the right size carriage bolts (didnt come with proper size) I used g-8. I agree dont like having 3 tools to take these off. If I could fine some metric 12 or 13mm I would certainly do it.
Aaron