LCA skids at front axle

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I love doing little projects like this - years ago one of my counselors told me men tend to do better when they're building something with their hands and that certainly applies to me.

I started with 4x1/8" flat bar because I wanted to mimic the radius of the factory mount....I figured the best way given my tools was to bump form it with a series of small brakes in my import 48" finger brake.

Of course using tooling limitations in the selection of material (thickness) is less than ideal, but these little brakes can just barely bend an 1/8" thickness at 4" wide

Anyway here's a couple shots of my blanks and bend lines laid out. I broke each line just until the mill scale flaked (incredibly scientific), and with just 1 or 2 test fits per side got lucky. Better to be lucky than good, they say....

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Then I figured I could double the thickness putting me at 1/4" by making another piece that nests in the factory bracket.

This worked surprisingly well (lucky again)

 

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Right side welded on here. You can make out a drain hole I elected to add.

Slap some paint on it and....done

I'll post a shot of left side not yet touched so you kinda get a feel for the difference, even though any JL owner could just peek under and see the same

 

[blnewt]

Nice job, don't know how I missed this
Got some left over 3/16" plate from my skid project, may have to fab these too!

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