Trailing Arm Skid Plates

[greytandy]

Always looking to protect my investment, I found that TLC makes trailing arm skid plates. Anybody have any feelings on these? How necessary are they? They're cheap enough, but do I really need them? Thanks.

 

[76FJ40]

Friends with 2nd gen 4Runners have beat the crap out of their mounts so I would say you need them if you plan to do any serious rock crawling. I noticed how vulnerable on my wife's FJ last weekend - they need some help.

 

[FirstToy]

greytandy, do you have a link to the products?

yeah, they are one of the thinks that get bashed up in the rocks. HD control arms might be a good upgrade also.

 

[greytandy]

greytandy, do you have a link to the products?

Unfortunately no. I emailed TLC and asked for pics installed or not. I imagine they'll look alot like this, which I heisted from fjcruiserforums.com:

 

[Tools R Us]

Steve Schaefer is making some stout rear links;

https://forum.ih8mud.com/showthread.php?t=97809&page=2

 

[greytandy]

Found them for sale on Ebay.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/2007-FJ-CRUISER-REAR-SUSPENSION-SKID-GUARDS-FROM-TLC_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ42609QQihZ011QQitemZ320002616005QQrdZ1QQsspagenameZWDVW

Don't know how easy they are to install.

 

[gearguywb]

I know my stock arms took a beating at CM!