thinking it is time for belly skids...

[jadmt]

IMO, you'll want the skids for sure to do Rubicon. The gears are a solution for street rpm, not for crawling capability to get through the Rubicon. Same for the brakes. But I agree they are very worthwhile. I ran the trail without any diff skids or shock mount skids. I was careful and didn't take any damage to the diffs. The shock mounts ... well they took most of the grinding. So, maybe shock mount skids are worthwhile. Some kind of strong protruding rock rails are necessary. I had to pivot against a few boulders with my RockHard step style (protruding) rock rails.

Get some kind of power steering enhancement. I did the trail with no power steering enhancement, as well as a dozen other BOH trails. There are many situations where you just can't turn the wheel when you need to and should be able to, given the minor tire restrictions of terrain, but are hampered by the low tire pressures of a large diameter tire. I recently installed the Apex power steering boost kit and cooler. I haven't had it on the trail yet. PSC is the big end of this.

never had to pivot on any rocks but my buddy took the wrong line and got wedged and was lucky he had LoD rails. we were on 35's and all had 2.5 lifts and all escaped without a scratch.

Part of doing the Rubicon is getting to the Rubicon on a 17 hour drive, hence the gears, heh.

Interesting, As far as steering, are you thinking like a PSC ram assist or something like that?

i drove from Western Montana to do the Rubicon and Dusy and we never had an issue on jkur's with AEV 2.5 lifts and 35's. in fact it was basically one of my buddy's first offroading adventures and he had no issues. he did not do little sluice but everything else. we offroad like we are playing chess he place our tires on rocks so we don't bang the crap out of everything. when we did the dusy we were there the same time the guy who does those way of life videos. we watched their videos afterwards and they made it look way harder than it was and they were all on way built up rigs and we were on 35's with again minimal lifts.

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[roaniecowpony]

never had to pivot on any rocks but my buddy took the wrong line and got wedged and was lucky he had LoD rails. we were on 35's and all had 2.5 lifts and all escaped without a scratch.

i drove from Western Montana to do the Rubicon and Dusy and we never had an issue on jkur's with AEV 2.5 lifts and 35's. in fact it was basically one of my buddy's first offroading adventures and he had no issues. he did not do little sluice but everything else. we offroad like we are playing chess he place our tires on rocks so we don't bang the crap out of everything. when we did the dusy we were there the same time the guy who does those way of life videos. we watched their videos afterwards and they made it look way harder than it was and they were all on way built up rigs and we were on 35's with again minimal lifts.

When we were there last summer, Little Sluice didn't look like something I'd want to put my JL street jeep in. Boulders were about neck high, standing between them. We didn't see anyone run it.

But yes, we were going along averaging about 1 mph for the whole trail.

 

[WheretheJLs]

Is there a complete steel skid setup for the 4XE?? I have a friend who is looking to off road and he will need full protection.

 

[GATORB8]

Is there a complete steel skid setup for the 4XE?? I have a friend who is looking to off road and he will need full protection.

Probably others too, MC has a 4xe Undercloak.

 

[Ratbert]

Is there a complete steel skid setup for the 4XE?? I have a friend who is looking to off road and he will need full protection.

He might need to empty his wallet for Next Venture Motorsports' implementation: https://nextventuremotorsports.com/...y-skids/products/jlu-4xe-aluminum-belly-skids. I've got their EcoDiesel version with UHMW and it works extremely well.

 

[ManOfSteel_Rust]

Probably others too, MC has a 4xe Undercloak.

I have the 2.0 e-torque (basically same) with Undercloak. Wow does it fit and protect nicely! Bit heavy but still happy I did.

 

[Artec]

Is there a complete steel skid setup for the 4XE?? I have a friend who is looking to off road and he will need full protection.

Artec will be releasing a 4XE bellypan very soon We are just about to finish up the Bellypan on our 2024 4XE

 

[rforbes]

Artec will be releasing a 4XE bellypan very soon We are just about to finish up the Bellypan on our 2024 4XE

Nice! Sharing any details yet?

 

[Artec]

Nice! Sharing any details yet?

I cant leak many details yet, But I can tell you that It is a 100% new skid system which does not share a single component from any of our other skids It still will be the 1/4" 6061 T6 heat treated Aluminum with 3/16" zinc plated steel brackets with counter sunk hardware. An its been in development for months.

 

[WheretheJLs]

I cant leak many details yet, But I can tell you that It is a 100% new skid system which does not share a single component from any of our other skids It still will be the 1/4" 6061 T6 heat treated Aluminum with 3/16" zinc plated steel brackets with counter sunk hardware. An its been in development for months.

My local 4x4 did say y’all had something new coming soon, only details they gave me. Look forward to hearing the details.

 

[Artec]

My local 4x4 did say y’all had something new coming soon, only details they gave me. Look forward to hearing the details.

Yes, We have lots of exciting new stuff coming out 2nd/3rd Quarter Id say goto our site and sign up for our newsletter to get updates of the newest offerings. But shops will find out about new products about a month before general public consumers

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