What is your Skid Plate Priority?

[korisu56]

Everyone make your personal skid plate priority list. Say you could only buy one at a time, what order would they be in?

[miljeep]

1- dif Guards
2- Rock Sliders
3- Belly Up
4- Engine Skid tied into belly up (#2)
5- LCA Skids (weld on type)
6- Steering Box Skids
7- Gas Tank Skid
8- Radiator Skid
9- Body Mount Bracket Skids

[vajeeper]

1. Diff Guards
2. Rock Slider
3. Gas Tank
4. Steering Box
5. Belly Up

Once I figure out what I am actually doing my list may/will change...

[korisu56]

Who all makes a Belly Up?

[miljeep]

I bought mine from Jeep medic. You saw what it did, it just raised everything up a n inch or two, which is a good thing on my jeep since it has a longer wheel base.

Teraflex belly up skid - ink on quadratec

Found this online:

There are of course several ways to fix this problem, one of which is getting a tcase skid that trims up the "beergut" of your Jeep by raising the tcase up more between the frame rails. There are many tcase skids on the market:

* Teraflex "Belly-Up" Skid plate
* Rubicon Express raised skid
* Nth Degree Mobility's flat skid
* 33 Engineering's High Clearance Skid plate
* Fabricate your own

[miljeep]

I guess you could always look at it as: Armor up everything which is not already armored with stock armor first, then it would go:

dif guards
lca skids
rock sliders
steering box

then replace current stock armor if needed:

Belly up
Engine
gas tank
radiator

I would drop the body mount bracket skids, they are expensive as heck and you can prob fab your own with a little metal bending.

[Pacifier]

1 - Nth Degree Belly up
2 - Nth Degree Belly up
3 - Nth Degree Belly up

[korisu56]

Diego, even with my steering box as exposed as it is with my bumper?

[korisu56]

I liked Ryan's cause it went from the belly pan all the way forward.

[miljeep]

Mine was the engine skid bolted to the belly up. I just reversed the bolts because I did not like the nuts being left vulnerable below the skids.