Front range product question

[thrashmetal75]

Does anyone use the cross member and skid plate from front range? If you do. Do you have any problems with them?

 

[Clb]

Last guy to not be swallowed by trailmart I think...
Last one I had worked fine (years ago) gave no protection tho...

Only thing I recall was about stressing the tail shaft housing bolts???

 

[YotaAtieToo]

I bought into that style of xmember years ago. Got the diy kit. Ended up breaking the 2nd housing from the rear. They are just no designed to be ran that way.

Ultimate set up imo would be the all pro xmember, which is very similar, but grabs the stock mounts also. But then run a separate full belly skid. I don't like bouncing rocks off something bolted straight to cast aluminum.

You want simple, grab a bud built.

 

[rattlewagon]

We used the low Range collar on a buddys truck this spring, and made our own skid plate.

Skid plate options for clocked case

I was looking for an off the shelf skidplate/crossmember to replace the stocker in 4runner. 4runner is 22re/w56/ duals with the rear case 10* clocked. We were planning on using the FROR mount, but they dont have the clocked case option available currently. I have a message in to them, but...

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Truck also has the 4xi motor mounts, and so far is holding up well, but we did bend the skidplate a bunch. We may end up buying the FROR skid and cut it to fit the clocked case. I could see how a hard belly hit could break things.

 

[chaplinfj60]

i have never agreed with this style of mount. i have always been told to mount engine and tranny/tcase in a big T formation because your engine will rock left to right and with a wide mount on tcase it will not move and eventually break my two cents

 

[rockota]

i have never agreed with this style of mount. i have always been told to mount engine and tranny/tcase in a big T formation because your engine will rock left to right and with a wide mount on tcase it will not move and eventually break my two cents

Maybe.

Had a similar (all-pro) setup in the tacoma for over a decade. It was the All-Pro mount w/ about 1/2 the connections to the tcase as FRORF... no real issue. Only reason it's still not in the truck is that we needed room for the 4WU brackets.

 

[YotaAtieToo]

i have never agreed with this style of mount. i have always been told to mount engine and tranny/tcase in a big T formation because your engine will rock left to right and with a wide mount on tcase it will not move and eventually break my two cents

Thats the other part I forgot to ad.

If I did the mentioned mount, I'd have the rear bushings as close together as possible.

 

[chaplinfj60]

Maybe.

Had a similar (all-pro) setup in the tacoma for over a decade. It was the All-Pro mount w/ about 1/2 the connections to the tcase as FRORF... no real issue. Only reason it's still not in the truck is that we needed room for the 4WU brackets.

i mean they have been sold and been used for many years, as stated above some broke and some have not. maybe it a bigger issue like number of tcase s and gears applying multiplied load. maybe a singe case is no biggie, but double its a issue. hmmmmm....

 

[rockota]

i mean they have been sold and been used for many years, as stated above some broke and some have not. maybe it a bigger issue like number of tcase s and gears applying multiplied load. maybe a singe case is no biggie, but double its a issue. hmmmmm....

mine's double. But I'm a gentle driver.

 

[chaplinfj60]

but i use a pair of these