I’m sure there’s a legal side but let’s hope they get together from time to time. Both guys have so much knowledge and skill. It’s fun to watch them on their own but I miss dirt every day already
A clear 9 oz solo cup drilled through the bottom and put over your drill bit catches all the hot cuttings and keeps it off your arms and your shirt. Really useful when you're drilling out those broken off Jeep body mount bolts...Keep cranking out the content!
Now that looks good 👍. Alot going on there, Brother working on these rides without help does not look fun. But you are doing a great job man well done keep the videos coming 👍.
The one thing I do not understand about these after market products is why they are supplied with SAE bolts. Every bolt on my Jeep is metric and when I did my skid plates and rockers I put the supplied bolts in my bolts bin and went to the hardware store and bought metric so all the hardware is the same. A product can be made in the United States and have metric threads, the rest of the Jeep is.
@@bajamedic I agree I do have a full set of tools in my rig I even have a fuller set of tools in my shop but that's not the point I was trying to make. Is somebody brings me a gizmo made 100% out of aluminum and wants a bracket made for it he isn't going to want it back made out of steel.
Simple your skid plate is made in USA, and due to NAFTA and other dumass democrat policies for the automotive industry your jeep is only assembled in USA
I just put the MetalCloak skidplate system under my diesel Gladiator because their skidplating did such a great job protecting everything for years underneath my JKUR. Steel skidplates are the only way to go; sure, aluminum saves weight but rocks chew it up much worse than with steel, and it bends a lot more easily.
I"m glad it wound up going together right. At that one point where it seemed like you'd installed stuff out of order, I was waiting for tools to start flyin! lol
Rivnut do not hold up. Best way to mount skid plates is take a bolt ,weld a lenth of 1/4” round to it and bend itto allowyou to snake into the frame above the hole you drilled. Rivnuts will eventually spin and get damage if a rock strike the bolt head. Some people put gorilla glue on them before crushing inserting them.
Metalcloak products are absolutely one of the best! The R&D team and engineering team must be some of the best also. I have their aluminum control arms on my XJ. Total BEEF!! And as always, awesome vids Fred! Safe wheelin’!
you might want to check for clearance between the rear end yoke and fuel tank skid on passenger side with the rear flexed out, many have had to trim the skid to clear.
Fred I see on your t-shirt that you are wearing it's a Jeep Forward Control. Do you still have yours or did it go down the road to a new owner.? I always thought that they were so cool . Maybe someday I'll be lucky enough to own one.
I have a CJ2A and the bolts for the bumper on the driver side are APITA to get too behind the steering box. Would it be wise to use a rivenut on that side for the bolts ? Or would they just not hold up ?
We need a monthly 4xFred and dirthead shed collaboration when you guys go wheeling or work on something!!! Even bimonthly would work.
I’m sure there’s a legal side but let’s hope they get together from time to time. Both guys have so much knowledge and skill. It’s fun to watch them on their own but I miss dirt every day already
@@christopherdunlap2752 they have a year where they can't be on each others' channels together.
@The Ground Work non competes are illegal in California.
@@markw365 yea but only one of them lives in California
A clear 9 oz solo cup drilled through the bottom and put over your drill bit catches all the hot cuttings and keeps it off your arms and your shirt. Really useful when you're drilling out those broken off Jeep body mount bolts...Keep cranking out the content!
Love this build Fred . Excellent work like always.
Now that looks good 👍. Alot going on there, Brother working on these rides without help does not look fun. But you are doing a great job man well done keep the videos coming 👍.
The one thing I do not understand about these after market products is why they are supplied with SAE bolts. Every bolt on my Jeep is metric and when I did my skid plates and rockers I put the supplied bolts in my bolts bin and went to the hardware store and bought metric so all the hardware is the same. A product can be made in the United States and have metric threads, the rest of the Jeep is.
To just keep you on your toes. 🤣🤣🤣
Agreed, but you should have a full set of tools in your rig because you never who you will help get off the trail.
@@bajamedic I agree I do have a full set of tools in my rig I even have a fuller set of tools in my shop but that's not the point I was trying to make. Is somebody brings me a gizmo made 100% out of aluminum and wants a bracket made for it he isn't going to want it back made out of steel.
Simple your skid plate is made in USA, and due to NAFTA and other dumass democrat policies for the automotive industry your jeep is only assembled in USA
Great job Fred!!! I imagine myself in MY shop, watching you!!!
Nice work. I like that you're genuine and don't edit out the mistakes.
I just put the MetalCloak skidplate system under my diesel Gladiator because their skidplating did such a great job protecting everything for years underneath my JKUR. Steel skidplates are the only way to go; sure, aluminum saves weight but rocks chew it up much worse than with steel, and it bends a lot more easily.
I"m glad it wound up going together right. At that one point where it seemed like you'd installed stuff out of order, I was waiting for tools to start flyin! lol
Keeping it real. Love the new format!
Looking good Fred👍🏻👍🏻
Nice work
I have the same problem with my 2 post. On my yj I just lift it from the rock sliders instead of the frame.
Another great video.
Fred your gas tank skid plate goes under that other plate also!
Digging the Daily!
It’s looking good
Rivnut do not hold up. Best way to mount skid plates is take a bolt ,weld a lenth of 1/4” round to it and bend itto allowyou to snake into the frame above the hole you drilled. Rivnuts will eventually spin and get damage if a rock strike the bolt head. Some people put gorilla glue on them before crushing inserting them.
Metalcloak products are absolutely one of the best! The R&D team and engineering team must be some of the best also. I have their aluminum control arms on my XJ. Total BEEF!! And as always, awesome vids Fred! Safe wheelin’!
Its idiotic that they ship the kit with a non metric bolt when literally everything else on the car is.
you might want to check for clearance between the rear end yoke and fuel tank skid on passenger side with the rear flexed out, many have had to trim the skid to clear.
Cool skids i would like too see something with clampy in it when you get a chance
Need a skid plate to cover the transmission to protect it. Hmm reminds me of a time when you didn't on a little white Jeep.
Nice! Smart Move.
Fred I see on your t-shirt that you are wearing it's a Jeep Forward Control. Do you still have yours or did it go down the road to a new owner.? I always thought that they were so cool . Maybe someday I'll be lucky enough to own one.
Allen key and instructions did you get it from IKEA?😂🇦🇺
Or you really want to get home 10 min earlier, because the creek is down 😜
You need to discover rotabroaches.
I have a CJ2A and the bolts for the bumper on the driver side are APITA to get too behind the steering box. Would it be wise to use a rivenut on that side for the bolts ? Or would they just not hold up ?
Bling bling ✨😌🤌
How much weight was added? Well worth it for sure but just curious.
The metalcloak site has weights, I think. I want to say it is 150 pounds for a JKU but can’t remember exactly
Smoooooooth...
Why is your t-shirt backwards?
i guess Fred hasn't mastered the camera or phone settings yet
If I may what made you pick metalcloak over the rock hard 4x4?
J T Maybe they gave it to him for talking about it here on you tube.?
Still not too late to change it to Noob
Deeze.
Anodized
Aluminum all the things.
The frame is thick enough to drill and tap rather than using a nut sert isn't it?
Undercarriage, brother.