I think I have to agree with you guys. After I saw the recommendation from "MAC4Runner", I spent my entire lunch talking to quite a few of these vendors, and Bud seemed to be the most helpful and knowledgeable. Here is what I found out which might be of interest to someone:
1) Downey in Santa Fe Springs, Southern CA (
http://www.downeyoff-road.com/) does not have skid plates for the fuel-tank.
2) Neither does shrockworks.com (
http://www.shrockworks.com/). SW have rock sliders and skid-plates for transmission and transfer case area. The rock sliders are mostly bolt-on except it needs drilling one hole that is required for installation.
3) Another company I called is Total Chaos (
http://www.chaosfab.com/) and they also did not have any skid-plates for fuel-tank for 2007 4Runner SR5 V6.
4) Demello Offroad (
http://www.demello-offroad.com/catalog/) I believe has skid plates but they are welded. I prefer to install bolt-ons only.
5) Bud (
http://www.budbuilt.com/new/) has something which pretty much seem to cover the entire under-carriage. He mentioned 5 pieces - I guess 4 skid-plates and one tubular cross-member. The tubular cross-member acts as a support and strengthens all the separate pieces when its bolted together as one-piece. All of them can be bolted together or installed separately. Also the one over the oil drain-plug has a hole which means changing oil does not require taking off the skid plate. His web site has some nice pictures however for full view of all the installed skid-plates he recommended I check out the following site:
http://www.toyota120.com
Click on Forum on the left side.
Scroll down to Offroad Tech under the section "Offroad Tech and Tips"
Next Click on BudBuilt Skids link.
Start from the last page, which are the latest posts and you can see all the different sections.
http://www.toyota120.com/forum/showt...?t=900&page=18
I asked him if I wanted the Shrockworks rock sliders, will it interfere with any of his attachment points? He said no because he is aware of these rock sliders and work with SW to make sure the tubular cross member or anything else does not have any problems.