BudBuilt 200 Series Skid Plates, Sliders, High Clearance Rear Bumper

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tplane2 said:
My pants....they fit funny!
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Taco and Bud make skids...

...but I don't think they can help you with skid-marks... :hillbilly:

Oh wait! You meant the FRONT! Lol! I thought you meant you needed these:

 
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Yea, front and rear air lockers. I've got a video of some obstacle that a good chunk of us were having issues with, and the 200... well haha, it just dominated. I love this 200.

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Testing complete. Everything handled it great. That control arm guard took two HARD hits, no deforming. They work with Slee sliders or any other slider, or without sliders at all.

Notice the BudBuilt sliders, triangulated leg arrangement creates enormous strength over normal sliders. @BTUMAN and I had a good talk about them while on a fun trail.

This stuff will have a couple small changes, really things that give a hair more clearance. The plates are so solid, they don't need as much clearance from drivetrain components, and that can translate to even more clearance.

Also, wheeling with the ARB guys was one of the best days I've ever had wheeling, just some damn good people.

I've got some videos I post when I can get back to a computer.
 
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yeah... i want a set
 
AL LC2013 said:
Also interested in sliders and skids. How do the sliders install and can custom widths be requested ( maybe 1 or 2 inch wider step?)
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Bud can do anything you want. Instead of designing something and then having a separate fabrication shop build it, bud just makes everything in house. So it's not a big deal to do changes, just give him an extra like 4 or 5 days. And for anything else, like fill plate designs or really whatever, he's got the specs in the computer to do this stuff. It's really whatever you can think of, he'll do, but put his industrial, automotive, and material degrees to work and make sure it is far stronger than anything else.

It's really fascinating to watch him do the calculations for this stuff, and then destroy stuff to know for sure. Unlike building, but never testing.

I'm going to have my sliders angle as far upward for rocks and then have them powder coated in 40% gloss to match my ARB front bumper. Powder coating adds a week, Bud uses an industrial powder coat company, so the stuff comes out a lot better than the smaller coaters can do.

The sliders attach with massive 5/8" bolts to lollipop threaded plates on both the inside of the frame (like the front leg of a Slee slider) and through the entire frame, to the back side with more threaded plates. The plates are very large to provide a ton of surface area to distribute load. The slider sits on a single 1/4" plate with legs that are much further to the ends than normal, which helps minimizes deflection.

We were hitting these sliders hard and couldn't bend them. There was another companies sliders out at this event, and those bent into that 200s rocker panel permanently.
 
TonyP said:
Let the speculation begin :hmm: :)
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I know right! But pictures are worth a thousand words, I'm not going to post a picture of the other sliders bent into the body, that's not very professional don't you agree. But after a long time of harder wheeling than most, even I can tell when something sucks, and Bud sure can far more than I ever could.

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Taco2Cruiser said:
I know right! But pictures are worth a thousand words, I'm not going to post a picture of the other sliders bent into the body, that's not very professional don't you agree. But after a long time of harder wheeling than most, even I can tell when something sucks, and Bud sure can far more than I ever could.

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Definitely agree.

I do like the look of these. If the vendor I went with wasn't available I'd go with Bud's stuff. I only had his skids on a previous vehicle and they took a solid trashing for sure.
 
So, serious question. When will these skids be available to order?
 
TonyP said:
Definitely agree.

I do like the look of these. If the vendor I went with wasn't available I'd go with Bud's stuff. I only had his skids on a previous vehicle and they took a solid trashing for sure.
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Very cool, and going with someone because they are close to you, and you can customize your build to you liking make sense. I'd do the same thing, well I did, I waited till I moved back to the east coast to have bud do this work.
 
steenh said:
So, serious question. When will these skids be available to order?
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A few weeks, definetly well before the 200 get together.

My 200 is going right back to his shop for final production products, so it is very close. It's like the Slee rear bumper, really thought out, quantity production parts take a bit of time to make sure they are as good as they can be.
 
Great pictures - I'm looking forward to the video!!
 
OMG!! I want these skids and sliders!! I'm going to be in Savannah next week, @Taco2Cruiser , so you better not leave your rig parked anywhere north of Victory Drive, or they may go missing....just sayin'...:):poof:

Thanks for the updates and pics, these are great!!
 
I saw these sliders and skids in action at Jambo. All I have to say is, "anyone want to buy my ARBs?
 
So first day back from Jambo, and sleep is for the weak! Well not really, we're pretty tired, but skids and sliders and armor will have those small changes made and be ready soon.

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You see that... that little thing right there that if it wasn't there could make the rear end of a 200 have a serious rock crawler rear end?

I'm talking surgery folks, with Bud, Dillon, Chip, and I. We are going to redesign the rear crossmember! This will yield a true high clearance bumper. Taking the tummy tuck design pioneered by Bud, this is a limosuction of the back end. I just figured that a steel rear bar doesn't really gain much other than strength, but with these guys, one improvement isn't good enough, why not have strength and ground clearance? I'm leaving the 200 again in Bud's hands, I'm pretty pumped.

This will be at the Appalachian Toyota Roundup end of August/beginning of September.

Stay turned folks, it's about to get real... real ******* sexy!
 
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