VAhasnoWAVES
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1/8 will work, its just as thick if not thicker than the mount. you ideally want 3/16" or 1/4" though. and tie it to the tube.
I have a sheet just like that.. 1/8" worked for me.. One of them is "dinged up" but nothing worth fixing..i have a big sheet of 1/8 steel laying around, proabbly 4ft by 4ft, do you think 1/8 is enough, my jeep is
2.5 lift, 30 BFG AT tires, (upping to 31s soon) JK shocks, WJ control arms, skids etc. i dont do rocks per say... but i have noticed that these are inherrently weak. although christmas is coming and the price of the zone kit is decent enough for a stocking stuffer... maybe i will put it on the list..
I personally like using the JKS mini skids.
And adding mini skids makes the stock LCA mounts stronger by leaps and bounds.
but some people love beating the hell out of their rig and are attached to the skinny pedal.. And taking the hardest lines... (dont see them ending up anywhere I don't go though )
Some people just like a challenge.
my skids seem to hold up fine.. The stockers were bent to helll.. But seemed to hold
but some people love beating the hell out of their rig and are attached to the skinny pedal.. And taking the hardest lines... (dont see them ending up anywhere I don't go though )
to each they're own I'm shure I'm just not hardcore enough like you guys ripping them off are (haha).
which is what all those super tough mud truck guys think of cherokees in general with their sky high lifts on huge lift blocks .. ( got alot of those here)
In the end if I had a beater trail rig maybe I'd beat the hell out of it for fun (probably not).
Its not just about getting from point A to point B, its all about the path you took to get there.And taking the hardest lines... (dont see them ending up anywhere I don't go though )
Begster, did you mangle a boxed lca with a welded in skid or a stock single weld factory pos? The difference in strength is huge. Put a piece of 1/4" plate in a vice and hit it with a hammer, it bends. No put a piece of box tube in a vice and hit it, doesn't bend so easy.
I didn't see this before, but I think you're looking at things differently than others. Going out wheeling with the end goal of camping or making it to a scenic outlook is in a whole different ballpark of "offroading" than going out to go rock crawling and the like, where the point is to go wheel the biggest obstacles. (I'm not saying this in a mean way, just pointing it out)I'd rather make it to that campsite at the top or the cool view or whatever my goal is than spend all day tyring to wrench in the woods
what steering setup are you running on that axle? i see you went though the trouble of trussing it but didnt move the track bar or stabilizer mounts.
ooo, good idea with the u-bolt plates xjtrailrider... & beeeautiful 30
did u rotate C's?