Hd Polyethyline Skids

[eric w siepmann]

Suspiciously, no mention of heat. Imagine the fumes if those started to melt!

 

[Blue]

Well up here in alaska we use this stuff as wear material on the bottoms of boats that get beached alot,. and i am going to use this stuff to as a friction meterial on the bottom of my sliders and maybe on my gas tank skid to help slide off the rocks. but even at 1/2 inch thick it will have flex to the point of pulling out of the mounting brackets. all the uses i have seen it in required a good stiff backing plate. if you use it under a rover as the fj site shows to close to a heat source and "say get hung up on a rock with a fair amount of wieght it will start to change shape and may melt to a cat converter or? and it will not return to its origanal shape. im not saying it wont work as i love this stuff but its simply not a replacement for steel or alloy but is a great compliment to both.
just my two cents

sure, on a fiberglass or aluminum-hulled boat it makes sense, and what's the sprung weight of your buggy compared to the typical Land Rover? I can picture someone coating the underside of their truck with plastic and then thinking they are invulnerable. The whole key to underbody protection is not skid plates; it's smart driving.

 

[LR Max]

You see these a lot on professional rock buggies. For a rig that doesn't weigh a lot, its awesome but sometimes you've got to have steel on the backside of it, else it'll break.

The HDPE sheets really do allow you to slide over rocks. However, the application really isn't for most rovers out there, IMO.

 

[Blue]

a half-inch plastic sheet on a gas tank skid or a diff skid or maybe frame sliders might make sense if it helps you slide off rocks (and you can't see it), but isn't that like wearing two rubbers?

 

[flyfisher11]

a half-inch plastic sheet on a gas tank skid or a diff skid or maybe frame sliders might make sense if it helps you slide off rocks (and you can't see it), but isn't that like wearing two rubbers?

Double baggin' that rascal:smilelol:

 

[kennith]

That stuff is tough as nails. You have to buy the right kind, not every sort will do. The marine sort is UV stable, and less likely to become brittle over time and crack.

It also doesn't take much of that stuff to repeatedly stop bullets, if you know how to properly mount it. I personally wouldn't make a skid plate out of it, but that's because you really have to watch heat around it. Hot weather won't hurt it, but an exhaust or hot transmission might, and being what it is, it could make a serious mess.

I just put some on my rack, though, and I am doing other nifty things with it regularly. I can personally tell you the good stuff is silly expensive. I've bought enough of it to feel the pain. I've got 500 bucks of it right now sitting in the shop.

Cheers,

Kennith

 

[ArmyRover]

The whole key to underbody protection is not skid plates; it's smart driving.

:applause:

 

[justinhaaga]

you only need skids when you got IFS....:amish: