Spoiled, preppy, no physical skills SOB! Obviously the prep school where you went (and had to wear the sissy little jacket and tie and short pants) didn't have it.

But I just talked the chick up the street, who's a high school teacher, not two weeks ago who was gonna put me in touch with the shop teacher about bending a couple of sheets of diamond plate I want to rivet on the face of my winch mount...

 

nice try hammer, but i went to a public high school, wore jeans and a tshirt to school every day and do more manual labor than most adults (all the yardwork/house maintnance) and then some

 

and you know mechanically nothing and this was proven yesterday Mr. Unibody Avalanche

I was a shop kid and as far as I know most the school in Pa have a shop class or atleast offer Votech...

Now its more apparent whats wrong with the wooter speaking preps

 

Don't they make a factory plate? Are you trying to save $$. A 4x4 16guage stainless plate is about $150. 16-18 guage is all you really need for an effective skid plate....thats all the factory is. Draw out the design on the plate, put an abrasive disk in your circular saw and cut out the pattern. Stainless will rip apart a metal jigsaw blade stat. Take it to the local tech school for brake-bending. I'd call them first to ensure they can brake 16 guage stainless. OK, you can powdercoat regular steel, but is that really what you want to do? In the end, is stainless really that much more $$? I didn't think so. Good Luck. And post pattern dimensions when you're done.

 

Way to not come off like a d1ck. But yea, sounds like too much work. I dunno if they have a factory one, but I'd be inclined to buy it.

 

I try

 

im making one too now that i got my welder. everytime i go through mud or deep puddles the belt slips which throws my battery light which also slips on the P/S pulley making me loose steering.

so yea im curious to see how yours turns out and ill show you mine when im done....

 

EXACT same problem here. Except sometimes it throws my check engine light on, but it just goes off by itself. Horrible design.

 

With 26 gauge steel.

From start:
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To finish:
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Looking good so far. I'll post dimensions and installed pics later on. It's like 4:30 am and I'm too tired.

 

Finished it up this morning. Dimensions I used are:

Back to Front: 3 1/2 in w/ a 30 degree bend up; 13 inches; 2.5 in w/a 30 degree bend down

Side to Side: 26 1/2 inch tapered to a 25 1/2

These measurements will leave a 1 inch lip on the sides. It took about 35 minutes or so to make.

To make the cuts I just scored the sheet metal with a razor blade, clamped it to my workbench, and bent the **** out of it and it snapped off cleanly. Same basic principle for the bends, I just didn't score it.

As you can see I used my skid plate bolts for the back/bottom. Easy enough.

For the top/front I used a 3/32 drill bit about 3/4 of an inch long to make the holes for my screws. I drilled into the under side of my radiator mount. BE VERY CAREFUL or you will drill into your radiator. I used four 1" screws and finished that baby off.

Hopefully I explained everything so it'll be easy to understand. I'm not the best at that.

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