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Originally Posted by Jetboy
The stock plate is actually pretty well engineered. It's fairly lightweight and will take a ton of abuse before you would actually damage anything above it. I have never heard of any reports of anyone actually damaging that engine or anything above the engine skid. My experience is that the stock steel one is stronger than the TRD pro. Although it turns into a raisin quite quickly, it holds up to a ton of abuse before you would actually collapse it. The TRD pro did not hold up very well for me. It only lasted one off-road trip before it collapsed in the center. It also did not damage engine components. But I think a second difficult trail on the TRD pro skid would have.
I did use a plate welded on to the OEM fuel tank skid and that worked pretty well. Not perfect, and I ended up replacing it with a full fuel tank skid later. But it's not a terrible idea. And it doesn't cost much if you welded up yourself.
You could also build my skid plate that is a steel version of the TRD pro skid plate but a whole lot stronger. I'm guessing that would cost you about $100 to have a cut shop cut all the pattern parts. I don't have my computer with me and I'm traveling right now. But I could send you the cut files. And then you could fabricate it yourself. I know at least a few people have used my cut files to make them.
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That would be awesome! Thanks for the advice. Thats what I was thinking of doing by just adding a plate to the bottom of the OEM existing skids.
I appreciate advice and would love the cut file. Thanks