The Most Frustrating Project I've Ever Built! - YJ Transmission Skid
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- Опубліковано 7 січ 2024
- This one has been a struggle, I gave up on it for awhile, and its still not done. Maybe you can see something im missing?
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I'd suggest taking a heavy 3/8" plate and standing it vertically up the inside of the frame web on the exhaust side and triangulating down over the exhaust to the skid plate mount plate and bolt it in, obviously you don't want to weld it. Weld the bottom of the vertical plate to the top of the bottom tab and let it float. It can float because the only time it will be used is if you land on the skid and it pushes it up, the triangulation will push against the side plate which should transfer the load the side of the frame. In addition, letting it float will not put any torsional forces on your frame as it tries to work. The same can be done with the other side, only the top of your tunnel can be the point of your triangle. It appears that that side can be fully welded.
Just an idea, fab a one piece skid plate that connects to the belly pan like you did, then a 1/4" thick one piece plate all the way to the front of the engine. At the front make arms up to the motor mounts frame arms.
I've been eyeballing doing this on mine. Put some angle iron flat welded to the trans side of the plate for strength. It certainly looks to me that you have the skills to do this, tools too! Look forward to seeing the finished product
That's been considered, getting rid of the motobilt oil pan skid and making it all one giant piece. I also considered welding the one I built to the motobilt, then chopping the original arms off it and attaching it to the frame/motor mounts instead of the block. The only issue with that, is either option means totally scrapping what I've already done which pains me. I'm going to try my last attempt that I mentioned at the end of the video and see where that goes. I've already started on that. Hindsight is def 20/20 on this one, I really wish I would have caught the initial mistake sooner
This was going to be my suggestion as well - look up the skid row oil pan skid for TJ which does this. It uses the passenger side control arm mount in addition to angle iron up to bottom of motor mount. You won’t have the control arm option on passenger side but it’s a good start.
I'm late to this video but this was my suggestion as well after seeing the first video on this skid. My UCF skid is like this and it is definitely the way to go and will be lighter and much less complicated. Sucks to scrap work but it happens.
Love your down to earth approach. Looking forward to more videos.
Ive got 3 other videos in progress, all waiting on something or another. Thanks!
Thanks for sharing. This is a project i need to do with my YJ. I appreciate you sharing your struggles. Not sure how you weld without gloves. LOL
I guess I got tough hands lol. I only wear gloves when I have long continuous welds that I have to do because they just drive me nuts. I don’t wear gloves when I work on stuff either or even when I shovel snow I just can’t stand gloves😂 I call them bish mittens 🙃
I agree, i am a little old school when it comes to working with gloves. don't mind the grease, dirt and cuts and scrapes. Just don't enjoying touching hot shit when i weld. LOL@@FlawedOffroad
@@RORAdventures well that’s why you don’t touch it lol
Is that upside down angle you welded on the skid plate in a bad spot if you hit it hard? I’m thinking it might do a lot of damage to your pan because I don’t think you’re side braces are going to hold up. Just my thoughts and I know it’s frustrating to tear it all back out. How about just making a skid plate that goes from the under the engine to the Barnes skid plate that is only mounted to the frame basically making the Barnes skid plate longer in the front to protect the trans?
its forward of the pan by about 1.5" I made sure of that
Could u make the skid one piece that mimicking your mounts to your frame then u can take and make your angle iron gusets like you did at the front but up the sides and to the frame idk how to describe what I'm saying other than that lol
I don't really follow, do you mean like the full width how the belly pan skid is? if that's what you mean I cant do that cause the front driveshaft
@@FlawedOffroad so on the passenger side could you go all the way to the frame under the exhaust?
@@FlawedOffroad there's a video of Paul cox from fabrats he done a similar design on a couple rigs I'm thinking he went under the exhaust full width of the skid plate then on drivers side he went were the driveshaft was and cut a grove were the driveshaft would be then went over it simaler to what you did if you have an email I'll see if I can find that video and send it to you
My YJ has the 4.0 but the exhaust runs under the very bottom of the pan. Did you change to a TJ exhaust so it would cross over in the higher area of the oil pan?
Yeah I swapped tj down pipe about 10 years ago cuz the first time I went offroad I flattened the pipe under the trans
Love the videos. Wanted to hear your opinion on something my jeep yj 2.5L trans is going out do you think i should fix the ax5 or upgrade to the ax15? i plan on going to a bigger engine 4.0 or ls in the future. do you think it worth the extra money to get the ax15
i would do it at the same time as a 4.0 personally, make sure its external slave
Could a rivbolt work ? 🤔
well I used rivnuts to the frame but thats actually part of the problem, the plate it sitting on the lip of the rivnuts and not actually touching the frame. It will be getting addressed in another video
Yeah , I made that rivnut comment half way through the vid mate . But well done and I thought it could be one long piece. So I did get the brain fill up with new stuff lol great job mate 👍