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This is all totally off the cuff and I'm not sure I'm in love with the design but I am confident it's a step in the right direction and at the very least will give me ideas for V2.0, if that ever comes.

The way the factory Rubi skidplate crossmembers attach under the frame annoys me, Jeep phoned it in there. They could have and should have swung it up inside the frame rails like a transmission xmember (incidentally, the JL trans xmember is Al - who knew??)

So I started on the right side 'cause the greatest gains are here. I put a couple ~15 degree bends in some 1.5x11ga sq tube and came up with this (gloved hand blocks the shop flo's which freak out my camera)

More to come....

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The left looks a bit forced because there's less room available. Also I didn't want to come too far inboard here 'cause I'm going to eventually add something to protect the exhaust loop.

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I then added plate going back from this xmember to the trans xmember. What this does is afford much greater protection to the trans pan and the exhaust where it dips under the front d/s

Installed pics to come but here it is in the, um, "paint department"

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Ok, installed. You can see the plating added helps cover the exhaust under front d/s and trans pan

I added a 7/16-20 bolt tapped directly into the trans xmember (fender indicates, final pic)

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