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Originally Posted by dcshipwreck
Gentlemen, my wife threw out my stock skids this week when the trash ran lol so guess who gets to buy some skids now? This guy!
Thoughts on skids? What's your set up and how do you like them? Looking for recommendations, budget minded would be great but she trashed them so I'll guilt her into it.
Thinking about the coastal off road set
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I bought the coastal weld together set in 1/8” to save some weight. Oh man first time out I hit a rock that I guess was a little higher than expected. It bent the front skid so bad that it compressed it downward costing me about 4” of ground clearance for the rest of the day. The next day I had to use my bottle jack to bend it back into place, and that’s when I realized that 1/8” is pretty weak for a skid plate.
All of that is to say if you go coastal get the 3/16”.
Also I don’t know if all skid plates do this, but coastal requires you to mount it using two of the bolts that bolt your steering rack in place. It’s kind of annoying because I hate unbolting my rack in general and now I have to do it every time I want to do any work to the truck.
All that said, I saved a bunch of money doing the weld it myself kit, and next time I have them off I plan to reinforce the front skid with some more steel.
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