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Hello,
I am at the end of my rope trying to find a skid plate for my 2021 JLU Rubicon. It seems that the 2021 wranglers now have hydraulic motor mounts and all the available skid plates that say 2018 to current or to 2021 are incorrect. All the the skid plates I have looked at have arms at the front the go up and bolt in a hole in the mount at the motor mount but like I said, with the hydraulic mounts there is no longer any place to mount those arms. Any help would be appreciated
You have a couple options. Mountain off road or Asfir. I’m using the Asfir skid from my 2020. I had to purchase the updated brackets to mount it up. My opinion is Asfir is the best value for an aluminum skid out there. I beat the crap out of mine on my 2020.
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You have a couple options. Mountain off road or Asfir. I’m using the Asfir skid from my 2020. I had to purchase the updated brackets to mount it up. My opinion is Asfir is the best value for an aluminum skid out there. I beat the crap out of mine on my 2020.
Thanks, I just looked at the Asfir website. Nice to know they have 2.0 skids. Not sure where your 2020 oil filter is but I see the oil pan plug hole but not sure how the oil filter would come off with that skid over it. Do you have issue with filter ?

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My 2021 is a 3.6 so the filter is on top of the engine.
Check out this thread.
https://www.jlwranglerforums.com/forum/threads/2-0-engine-skid-plates.49229/
If you have a 2021 then your wrangler has hydraulic motor mounts and this Asfir skid plate will not bolt up. All wranglers before this had regular motor mounts that had a bolt hole in them that this skid plate could bolt to. As far as I know most vendors do not know this yet but as soon as they start getting them returned from 2021 users they will change there listings to fits 2018 to 2020.
 

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If you have a 2021 then your wrangler has hydraulic motor mounts and this Asfir skid plate will not bolt up. All wranglers before this had regular motor mounts that had a bolt hole in them that this skid plate could bolt to. As far as I know most vendors do not know this yet but as soon as they start getting them returned from 2021 users they will change there listings to fits 2018 to 2020.
ASFIR has brackets for the new mounts. It’s bolted on to my Jeep right now.
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