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Old Feb 27, 2011 | 10:48 PM
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ramguy, do you have pics of yours? Im curious of how they are made.

(Mine is a 1st gen and came with skid plates FWIW) as well as my buddies truck in my signature.
Not currently, I can take some tomorrow. Do you want pics of all of them?
 
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Old Feb 27, 2011 | 10:52 PM
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Sure that would be great! Are they steel or aluminum? I would think aluminum would be too week unless is aircraft grade... even them...
 
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Old Feb 27, 2011 | 11:05 PM
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From pics from the 2000 Dakota manual the 1st Gen and 2nd Gen have the exactly same skid plates. Front diff, transfercase and gas tank. Here is my post on them and the other custom ones I made.

https://dodgeforum.com/forum/1st-gen...id-plates.html
 
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Old Feb 27, 2011 | 11:09 PM
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Wow only 1/8 plate? Light and durable hey? How did you form the creases in the plates, shop press? Great pics.
 
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Old Feb 27, 2011 | 11:27 PM
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Originally Posted by oxygen454
Sure that would be great! Are they steel or aluminum? I would think aluminum would be too week unless is aircraft grade... even them...
They are steel, aluminum would be destroyed. I had alum ones on my atv and even with just a 500lb atv they got some good grooves in them so a truck would prob kill them in a day.
 
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Old Feb 27, 2011 | 11:39 PM
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Originally Posted by oxygen454
Wow only 1/8 plate? Light and durable hey? How did you form the creases in the plates, shop press? Great pics.
Thanks. They are very Heavy Duty, not light. I beat them pretty good.

By memory the frame is about the same thickness or slightly thicker. I only made the transmission pan plate and added to the front diff plate to cover the oil pan and front bumper plate. The creases are the factory plates.
Now I might not be able to use the front diff/oil pan plate due to the SAS.

Here is a good pic where most are visible.

 

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Old Feb 27, 2011 | 11:54 PM
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okay gotchya. That is true about the frame. If you build it heavier than the frame thickness, the frame may give before the skid plate LOL
 
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Old Feb 27, 2011 | 11:57 PM
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(Sorry for hijacking this thread!)
I will try and take some pics of mine even though it is not gen2
 
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Old Feb 28, 2011 | 02:20 PM
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Here is mine

Front
IMG_0862.jpg

Looking back at the transfer and gas skid
IMG_0863.jpg

Transfer skid
IMG_0864.jpg

Gas skid
IMG_0865.jpg

Its odd how they dont have a tranny skid. I looked at my pan and there was no scratches or dents so thats good. I noticed it sat about 3 inch higher than each crossmember(1 in front and 1 behind the pan) so maybe they thought that since it is between those 2 it wont get hit i dont know.
 
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Old Feb 28, 2011 | 04:16 PM
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I have them.. I would say they are partial and are nothing like the factory ones on the Jeep Wrangler.. but they are better than nothing.. thinking about getting some metal and fabbing some.. once i getother things taken care of.
 
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