After a recent trip to Top of the World — it became visually and audibly obvious that I’ve outgrown the remaining stock skid plates on Sebastian. I already swapped out the radiator skid plate for a 3/16″ plate steel version made by Shrockworks. We’ve also added an engine skid plate (and area completely left nude by the factory), sliders and a differential skid. And good thing — because they’ve all been getting a workout.
Here’s the “before”…
The replacement transfer case and gas tank skids — as well as — the transmission skids all came from Shrockworks. The shock mount skids from Nisstec. As Shrock recommends and we’ve become familiar with… this stuff gets pretty beat up. So once again I opted for bare metal and painted them myself. I’ve also learned that doing your 30/60k mile fluid changes requires that most of the skids have to come off. When I do that — I also re-paint the skids. Summary being — the cost to powder coat is pretty difficult to justify.
