The LFD Off Road Thread

[ryguytheman]

Snaps that looks good! Do you find the bumper trim helpful? Approach wise? Thinking about cutting mine a little

I know that my trimmed bumper cover has worked out well.

 

[Anand]

Got one of the new thicker bars and mounted it as far up front as I could get it, and bought some 3x5" L brackets to mount the light bar. Had to drill out the holes a bit to fit the lightbar, but besides that it all went smoothly.

Oh.... Now that's an interesting thought... May have to shift my cross bars around to see how this works for my setup

 

[LFD_Off_Road]

I was last to arrive and somehow ended up in the group of 7 lifted Jeeps with monster tires. Thought I was cool as the morning went well in mud, hills, rocks, roots... even tugged a rubicon out of a hole he got himself stuck in. Then the afternoon came and we went in to the real ROCKS and I was destroyed. Stock size tires, stock suspension and lots of weight were not the right recipe. At least I had good skids & sliders because I used them a lot. I was deep in the rocks and high centered several times... stacking rocks, jack & cast, tugged, winched... it was ugly. I don't have any pictures because humorously I was in the truck with a foot on the brake the whole time while everyone else worked. We will see if someone else posts some photos so people can see what a non-lifted SR5 can almost do...

Dan with OEX had one photo taken right after you had shifted on the rocks and was about to drive off, but looks like that's all we have.

 

[jhguth]

I'm so annoyed, I've been waiting to install my gas tank skid for like 2 or 3 months because I knew I had a project coming up that would involve painting some equipment with industrial epoxy coating and planned on just throwing my stuff in with the equipment only for the client to decide they would source directly.

I painted with POR-15 and the 1st and 2nd coat looked great but I decided to do a 3rd coat on the outside and maybe the second coat wasnt dry enough or something but it had all these drips and bubbles (POR-15 usually self levels pretty well) and it's really annoying me

 

[DannyLlama]

Anyone here with the front bumper installed on a 2010-2013 with feedback?

Thanks,

Danny

 

[LFD_Off_Road]

Anyone here with the front bumper installed on a 2010-2013 with feedback?

Thanks,

Danny

We haven't done many fronts yet on 10-13. I'm not sure if any of the guys who have them are active on here.

 

[TheBlandRunner]

Anyone here with the front bumper installed on a 2010-2013 with feedback?

Thanks,

Danny

I am a little biased but i love it! I had to drill a hole for my KC Cyclone turn signals but otherwise it was a perfect fit.Its super beefy and the recovery points are some of the thickest in the industry. Its also super easy to access the winch. Rocking my spare in one of these pics after getting a flat. Let me know if you have any questions or if you would like some additional pics.

Big Creek December 2019-121 by Greg Bland, on Flickr

Big Creek December 2019-170 by Greg Bland, on Flickr

Big Creek December 2019-129 by Greg Bland, on Flickr

DSC_4643 by Greg Bland, on Flickr

DSC_4673 by Greg Bland, on Flickr

DSC_4683 by Greg Bland, on Flickr

DSC_4759 by Greg Bland, on Flickr

DSC_4779 by Greg Bland, on Flickr

 

[LFD_Off_Road]

I was last to arrive and somehow ended up in the group of 7 lifted Jeeps with monster tires. Thought I was cool as the morning went well in mud, hills, rocks, roots... even tugged a rubicon out of a hole he got himself stuck in. Then the afternoon came and we went in to the real ROCKS and I was destroyed. Stock size tires, stock suspension and lots of weight were not the right recipe. At least I had good skids & sliders because I used them a lot. I was deep in the rocks and high centered several times... stacking rocks, jack & cast, tugged, winched... it was ugly. I don't have any pictures because humorously I was in the truck with a foot on the brake the whole time while everyone else worked. We will see if someone else posts some photos so people can see what a non-lifted SR5 can almost do...

[MENTION=455301]Unretired[/MENTION] I found one more of you stuck on the rocks

 

[Anand]

[MENTION=455301]Unretired[/MENTION] I found one more of you stuck on the rocks

That just looks like he's negotiating the rocks well Solid photo to show the bumper and front skid a little muddy though!

 

[Daikon]

Finally installed the wide front skid from these guys and love it!

did you re-use the stock 'filler' cover/plate?

 

[LFD_Off_Road]

did you re-use the stock 'filler' cover/plate?

A couple people have done that recently. Its been about 4 years since I've seen one of those covers though, before we were doing this, so I haven't tried playing with one with our skids yet.

 

[Daikon]

A couple people have done that recently. Its been about 4 years since I've seen one of those covers though, before we were doing this, so I haven't tried playing with one with our skids yet.

Is it risky to drive without it?

 

[LFD_Off_Road]

Is it risky to drive without it?

No, its pretty standard practice to remove it when installing new skids.

 

[29ftw]

I just installed a couple of the steel crossbars and notice a decent howl around 40mph. I plan to have a bike tray on them most of the time and also a yakima skybox periodically but am wondering if there is any way to reduce the noise when unloaded?

I would need to add a third crossbar to add the fairing (since I need clamps to be able to wrap around bars for mounting)

I think I read something somewhere about putting some bolts in the holes/slots?

 

[LFD_Off_Road]

I just installed a couple of the steel crossbars and notice a decent howl around 40mph. I plan to have a bike tray on them most of the time and also a yakima skybox periodically but am wondering if there is any way to reduce the noise when unloaded?

I would need to add a third crossbar to add the fairing (since I need clamps to be able to wrap around bars for mounting)

I think I read something somewhere about putting some bolts in the holes/slots?

Morning!

The only sure way to knock it out is a faring, but sometimes moving the front crossbar back some helps. We've use some rubber T-Slot covers on the slots too before, or sometimes just bolting something to them works.

 

[MidniteTRD]

I just installed a couple of the steel crossbars and notice a decent howl around 40mph. I plan to have a bike tray on them most of the time and also a yakima skybox periodically but am wondering if there is any way to reduce the noise when unloaded?

yep - you need the fairing. we had the same thing with noise around 50, then 70mph with our steel ruggedized LFD bars. the fairing eliminates it. we use ours for a Thule box.

 

[29ftw]

Morning!

The only sure way to knock it out is a faring, but sometimes moving the front crossbar back some helps. We've use some rubber T-Slot covers on the slots too before, or sometimes just bolting something to them works.

Thanks for the reply. I've got a question in to your guys to see if I can get the one piece crossbar fairing (like comes with the racks). If I get another crossbar + the separate fairing it sticks up a hair when mounted and isn't level with the other bars..hoping this is an option. It looks cleaner too

Hoping to swing by and grab with a wide skid end of next week

 

[DannyLlama]

I am a little biased but i love it! I had to drill a hole for my KC Cyclone turn signals but otherwise it was a perfect fit.Its super beefy and the recovery points are some of the thickest in the industry. Its also super easy to access the winch. Rocking my spare in one of these pics after getting a flat. Let me know if you have any questions or if you would like some additional pics.


DSC_4779 by Greg Bland, on Flickr

Thanks for the pics, info and feedback!! no questions at this time, just looking for feedback. This one really caught my eye and somehow is different from the rest.. Can't put my finger on it but I like it!

Thanks again for the info!

 

[LFD_Off_Road]

Thanks for the reply. I've got a question in to your guys to see if I can get the one piece crossbar fairing (like comes with the racks). If I get another crossbar + the separate fairing it sticks up a hair when mounted and isn't level with the other bars..hoping this is an option. It looks cleaner too

Hoping to swing by and grab with a wide skid end of next week

We've talked about that before, but haven't tried one yet. Open to it though!

 

[29ftw]

We've talked about that before, but haven't tried one yet. Open to it though!

Haven't tried mounting on the factory side rails? I'm happy to test!