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From: Dennis White[SMTP:dennisw@tiac.net]
Sent: Friday, February 18, 2000 6:08 AM
Subject: Re: [D90] skid plates
> Does anyone have any experience w/ the the Southdown front axle guard?
I have them on both the 90 & 110 and am pleased with them for the same
reason Chuque is. You can skid right over things with no damage. You loose
maybe 3/4" clearance along the axle tube (the plate has a bump for the
iff - so the majority of the plate is much higher than teh diff) Southdown
UK provides these to LR for their military vehicles
DW
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From: T. Bryan[SMTP:farvinswine@yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, April 03, 2000 5:35 AM
Subject: Re: [D90] My skid plates arrived!
Hey Cliff, my friend and I each just got the (Sothdown - ed.) front
skid plates. Curiously, on both the bracket holes
were approximately 3/4" too narrow for the plate. It
took a significant amount of pounding on each to get
them to line up properly. Several words of
installation advice. Take the tire off of each side
as you are working on it - makes turning the radius
arm bolts around a lot easier. Do not tighten the
radius arm bolts until you have mounted the plate -
you will likely need some "wiggle" to get the thing on
right. Finally, tighten those radius arm bolts very
tight when you are done.
Good luck, TB
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Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 17:09:14 -0600
From: Jeff Gauvin jeff.gauvin@lsil.com
Subject: Re: [D90] Underbody Protection
At 03:32 PM 4/15/99 -0700, you wrote:
>I am looking at adding some underbody protection to my D90.
The two most vulnerable areas are the front of the front diff
(just thin metal, easily bashed in) and the front steering tie
rod (hangs down below the axle tube). Beyond that, the other
steering components above and in front of the axle could stand
to be better protected, then maybe your side sills (get rock
sliders), rear trailing arms, radius/trailing arm mounts, rear
sheet metal corners, exhaust components, well... the list goes
on and on. There's a heavy duty replacement or piece of armor
for just about every exposed part of a D90.
But to throw a little sanity in here, the casual offroader
will probably never come close to damaging some of these bits.
But the first two things (diff and tie rod) you can bend in
your own driveway (slight exaggeration). Diff covers run about
$90, and you've got about three options for the tie rod, all
about $125 - $150: heavy duty CroMo rods that can take some
abuse, "trick" bent tie rods (Rock Ware), and the Safari Gard
RockGard.
Take a look at the following three sites to get an idea of
what's out there.
Jeff Gauvin
'94 D90