New England B.S. Thread

[emelianenkov]

You should check this out. Plastic skid plates. I know sounds whimsy but a lot of Rick buggy guys use it to save weight and it's pretty tough. I think it's the same kind of plastic they use for cutting boards. It's called UHMW Plastic.You can get it online. Search Google.

That sounds interesting!!!

I just checked em out and pre-made skids actually look more expensive than metal.

BUT sheets of 3/8" are super cheap! I'm gonna do this!

 

[emelianenkov]

10 minutes, a 12mm socket wrench, a little sand in my eyes, and now a super sexy truck!

I destroyed these mounts....

Better just take off the running boards!

Here's a mount that I maimed. It wanted to fight me and not get off the damn truck!

And look at all the damage my "sliders" took!

 

[Johnnym]

Looks like you guys have been busy over here -- sliders skids . When are you guys hitting the trails again ?

 

[emelianenkov]

I'm not going to the trails for a while most likely. Need my sliders and need to build some skids, or at least replace them with less battered skids. Hopefully in a few weeks.

I'm going down to the pine barrens in NJ at the end of October! Haha. Gonna be fun!

 

[emelianenkov]

Thanks for the skid Mike! It's like new compared to mine haha. Yours just has a ding or two and some scratches. Mine are cratered like the surface or the moon!

 

[rfuree11]

Not a problem. I should have saved the rears for you too.

So when I brought the car in for my 60k service, they told me I needed new front pads and wrote it on my invoice. I ordered everything I needed, pulled the front wheels and saw that my fronts had like 80% left. Pulled my rears and they were almost metal on metal. Luckily I had another car I could use to go to Advance.

 

[emelianenkov]

Not a problem. I should have saved the rears for you too.

So when I brought the car in for my 60k service, they told me I needed new front pads and wrote it on my invoice. I ordered everything I needed, pulled the front wheels and saw that my fronts had like 80% left. Pulled my rears and they were almost metal on metal. Luckily I had another car I could use to go to Advance.

Yea, I wish you had saved the rear skid too, but oh well! My rear skid is holding up quite well actually.

I think I'm going to order that super sturdy plastic that Will suggested and see how that goes! It's cheap and easy to work with from what I've read thus far.

So you got the rear brakes done ok? No issues? No frozen calipers?

 

[rfuree11]

Nope, no issues, luckily.

 

[jdkilroy]

How will that plastic hold up near a heat source ?

 

[Qjake]

I'm not going to the trails for a while most likely. Need my sliders and need to build some skids, or at least replace them with less battered skids. Hopefully in a few weeks.

I'm going down to the pine barrens in NJ at the end of October! Haha. Gonna be fun!

You can still go wheeling bud just be a bit more careful of your line choice :boink: Then when you get that welder you were talking about you can reinforce the stock crap with some 3/16 steel.:wink2:

Whats up down at the pine barrens? I might be down that way the end of Oct if ya want a wheeling buddy.

 

[emelianenkov]

How will that plastic hold up near a heat source ?

Pretty well people have started using it as skid plate material for ultra light weight applications. The material is called UMHW. As a baseline, a square of black 3/8"x12"x12" is $11.99. Steel is much more expensive and harder to work with. The plastic is like cutting board material. Super resilient and slippery to help slide over rocks. When I pay down some of my debt I'm going to buy a big sheet and start making custom skids for myself! They say all you need is some basic carpentry tools to work with it.

 

[emelianenkov]

You can still go wheeling bud just be a bit more careful of your line choice :boink: Then when you get that welder you were talking about you can reinforce the stock crap with some 3/16 steel.:wink2:

Whats up down at the pine barrens? I might be down that way the end of Oct if ya want a wheeling buddy.

Yea I know but I just dont want to ruin the underside of my truck. I'd rather wait for a little while and armor up than pay the consequences. We will see if my sliders come in this f&cking decade and how Mike's skid plate fits on my truck.

And down in NJ is going to be a big state park cleanup with 300+ off roaders who want to take a second while riding the trails to pick up all the trash. Last year they filled up 2 30sq.yd. dumpsters in a few hours! It is just a way to give back to the community and make us offroad guys seem like humans to the general public haha.

Oh, did I mention? Free wings afterwards!!

We would be glad to have you come down! Just no more breakdowns man! Your truck would take up valuable space in the dumpsters. :boink:

Sarah and I are camping there with my buddy and his girlfriend in the state park. $3 per person per night at the camp ground. Let me know if you want in, I'll let him know!

Hope you can make it!

 

[emelianenkov]

Went to a car show with my mom and her Fairlane.

The truck was actually received well amongst all the old domestic muscle! I did some flexing amongst muscle cars. (see what I did there?)

 

[emelianenkov]

New skid vs old

 

[Chill will]

Tar Hollow weekend camp/trail ride

Hey guys thought I would share some info. For the last 2yrs I've been going to this event. They have it twice a year in the spring & again in the fall. It's on private property in the mountains in NY. Something for everyone from stock to rock buggys. Raffle prizes are top notch and the trails are nicely marked. I am definitely going so check it out.

Tar Hollow 4WD 2012 - Krawl 4 The Kids

 

[emelianenkov]

Check it out!

http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/no...h-meet-september-22nd-2012-a.html#post5592677

 

[jdkilroy]

... They say all you need is some basic carpentry tools to work with it.

Its basically the same as your plastic cutting boards in your kitchen. So yes, you can cut it and shape it with your home tools. You can't bend it though (with your home tools). You are pretty much restricted to creating flat panel skids. Drill the holes where you need 'em.

And they are subject to melting, getting soft/burning if gets hot enough. (Think, near hot under body components)

I think these are selectively very useful but not sure of weight savings over aluminum. This stuff is pretty heavy.

 

[emelianenkov]

Its basically the same as your plastic cutting boards in your kitchen. So yes, you can cut it and shape it with your home tools. You can't bend it though (with your home tools). You are pretty much restricted to creating flat panel skids. Drill the holes where you need 'em.

And they are subject to melting, getting soft/burning if gets hot enough. (Think, near hot under body components)

I think these are selectively very useful but not sure of weight savings over aluminum. This stuff is pretty heavy.

Yea it handles 200 degrees comfortably.

I might just bite the bullet and buy some pre made ones.

And I wasn't going for weight saving, just for ease of fabrication, but I'm giving up that pursuit.

 

[BReardon21]

You have a link to the pre made ones??

 

[emelianenkov]

Well I mean pre-made metal skid plates.