Battle Rattle
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- Joined
- Oct 20, 2021
- Messages
- 8
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- 16
- Location
- Grand Junction, Colorado
- Current Rides
- 19 JLUR, 20 JLR, 06 LJ, '99 LC100
Maxx,Hey. Thanks for replying. Good information and sounds like not much concern for any breakage.
Wow. Didn’t know the tail pipe skids were steel.
Can the tail pipe skids be purchased separately?
Would adding the tail pipe skids alone cause any significant imbalance?
Would they interfere/are they compatible with rear mud flaps?
Yeah, a big chunk of our strength comes from the design of our skids to have pretty compact bends where rocks and such cant get leverage to assist in tearing apart the belly, but that rear bracket hangs low enough and needed to be shaped in such a way that it was going to be a failure point if left in aluminum. We've tried to think it out to where the stuff that needs to be steel is steel (crossmembers, mounting brackets, and those back tail skids) but also in a way where we can spread aluminum everywhere else liberally and without fear of adding too much weight. Aluminum is also way easier to countersink which is why most of the steel skids have bolt heads that protrude below the skids themselves where they can hang up on things and get damaged whereas its possible for us to get the bolts tucked up into a truly flat package. Tack on the UHMW and baby you got a slide going on.
We are currently focused on producing our full skid systems and are not offering just the exhaust skids at this time. That may be something we do in the future, but I can't speculate on when that might be.
I posed the mud flap question to our designer and the response was "If they interfere with our skid, then they would be interfering with the factory exhaust too." so yeah, they should be good to go on that front. If you do run mudflaps, then we definitely suggest the classy ones with the ladies on them for best fitment.
-Hunter @ NVM
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