I got a front skid plate for my stock height LX a little more than a year ago. Great fit and finish. I think I may have need to get a longer center bolt. Seems to be about the same weight as the stock piece.
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Front skid-plate (558055) - 22 lbs
Gear skid-plate (558063) - 40 lbs
Transfer skid-plate (558067) - 22 lbs
and in total - 84 lbs
Hopes this helpslmk if there's anything else we can help with.
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Reut @ ASFIR
Not at the moment i'm sorry..
A few suggestions for the front skid. Make the rear holes slotted. This makes it easier do put on by sliding it on to half screwed bolts, and levering up. I think that would also help to alleviate back to front bolt hole fit issues. To make that work the overall length needs to be just slightly shorter.Not at the moment i'm sorry..
Thank you! If you have pics / diagrams to send us it will be great.
We usually don't make changes to our products without R&D in our manufacturing factory / by one of our representitives, but we are always happy to learn from your experience.
Cheers
Thank you! If you have pics / diagrams to send us it will be great.
We usually don't make changes to our products without R&D in our manufacturing factory / by one of our representitives, but we are always happy to learn from your experience.
Cheers
I did this to mine to get it to fit with the slee diff drop. Rather than trying to just elongate the holes to the rear, I just slotted them. Added benefit is as stated above, being able to slide it onto already started bolts.
Sounds great! Do you have pics or something to share?
I will do this. I think I have a similar looking custom-made skidpan on my Tacoma with slotted rear holes.
Slotted mine as well
Received my front skid plate yesterday and threw it on last night. I as well am not able to get the rear bolts in without elongating the holes. Fiddled with it for about a half hour before I decided just to leave them out for now. I have a couple broken bolts to drill out under there anyway.
My 100 is available for shipment to Israel to use for test fitment. I'll even drive it over from the port.
Valid point. I elongated mine all the way through so they are open to the rear. Make installation easy by putting the bolts halfway in and sliding the rear of the skid plate in then bolt up front, followed by tightening the rear
Makes me wonder if the fitment varies by year. I bought the front and mid skids and they bolted right up to my 2006 LC with zero issues other than needed a longer middle bolt for the front...the one with the tall spacer underneath. Might be better if you all ID the year and LX vs LC so people know if they might have an issue or not.
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I only have the front installed and middle crossbeam thingy installed right now, but both fit with no problems. I have a 2004 LX470. I haven’t around to putting the actual middle plate on, so we’ll see how that goes.
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Hmmm....
Mine is a 2005 LC just like yours. All stock.
The front plate needed the back holes lengthened by 1/4 inch to go on.
There is obviously a source of variation, either in our rigs or Asfir. Slots seem like a reasonable way to address it.
Hmmm....
Mine is a 2005 LC just like yours. All stock.
The front plate needed the back holes lengthened by 1/4 inch to go on.
There is obviously a source of variation, either in our rigs or Asfir. Slots seem like a reasonable way to address it.
Mine is an '05 LX and I had difficulty getting the front skid's long bolt started with the spacer too but found by loosening up the front bolts and propping up the rear most portion of the skid plate, I finally got it started and tightened... It was a little frustrating because there isn't a lot of room between the skid and the underside pieces being protected by it and without a second set of hands or a prop agent, I could see how some have resorted to modifications.
I can say it was well worth the investment and some aggravation when it saved me coming out of a water crossing, deep muddy ruts and lost momentum felt like I had beached a boat on a sandy bottom...
Typo that I just fixed. I have a 2006.
It seems most of the complaint on holes alignment was on the front skid plate. My experience was that it might not be the issue with alignment, but installation process engineering. On my 04 LX, I found the holes, either the front 3 or the rear 2, might be mis-aligned by maybe 5mm, at the beginning when tried to but the bolts in. However, everything seems aligned once tightened all bolts.
My conclusion was that all the holes might be fully aligned, but in a tight specs. Since the front skid plate is so long, and the front, middle, and rear holes are not on the same level of surface, a slight reclining of the plate will cause the hole looks like not aligned, which is very inconvenient for installation. I did enlarge the rear 2 hols by a couple millimeters to make installation easier. A better way might be just make the real 2 holes as open slots which:
My conclusion was that all the holes might be fully aligned, but in a tight specs. Since the front skid plate is so long, and the front, middle, and rear holes are not on the same level of surface, a slight reclining of the plate will cause the hole looks like not aligned, which is very inconvenient for installation. I did enlarge the rear 2 hols by a couple millimeters to make installation easier. A better way might be just make the real 2 holes as open slots which:
- not only resolving the alignment issue when put bots in
- but also simplifying the installation so one can put the bolt in first and then hang the rear end of the plate on the bolts when working to put the front bolts in.
I wish these were designed for diff drops since it seems like most that are replacing skids probably have a diff drop, at least in North America. Or is that wrong?
I'm thinking I might try to TIG a bar/spacer on the front skid for the front 3 bolts. The spacers for diff drop aren't all that easy to work with on these in my experience. I thought about just trying to TIG the existing diff drop spacers on there, but I don't know if that will give me enough tolerance to get it bolted up.
I'm thinking I might try to TIG a bar/spacer on the front skid for the front 3 bolts. The spacers for diff drop aren't all that easy to work with on these in my experience. I thought about just trying to TIG the existing diff drop spacers on there, but I don't know if that will give me enough tolerance to get it bolted up.
