Moab Land Rover Carnage

[Brad]

I am 99% sure I did all of this on Top of the World bombing down to make a 4:30 visitor center closing time to arches visitor center. :D
Now I know I need a lift and where the skid plates need to go!

Only tree in the road and I managed to catch it just right and put a dent in my door.
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Bull Bar from doing lawn dart maneuvers and thinking I could climb a large chunk of rock
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My rear bumper now has a smirk, this happened on fins and things.. should have kept to the line. :rolleyes:
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Sliders doing their job
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Diffs:
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[Brad]

Trailer hitch aka rear slider!
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Random dings

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Exhaust
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Rear tow hooks. Hit them so hard they are turned the wrong way
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This one scares me the most. Gas tank:

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There are some serious gouges in this. Need a skid plate very soon. :thumb:

[CR]

Good to see you're using your rig.:thumb:

[Aaron]

I know you're looking at those things and may be a little freaked out but all I can say is... COOL! :clap:

[Chris]

Congrats Brad, no better way to determine your next mods!

[Brody]

Seriously, no big deal. You were going to have me relocate the hitch anyway, so right there that will be fixed. A gas tank skid plate is certainly in the works as it should be. Anything else is a matter of a couple of smaller skip plates so the brackets are reinforced and don't get trashed. LCs, FJCs and the newr 4Runners all have control arm brackets that get hashed on a regular basis. Whereas it takes a lot to make them unusable, they will take quite a beating. I have welded on quite a few 1/4" skip plates for these to keep this from happening and doing something similar to the Rover isn't a big deal.

Ditto with the diffs. a simple weld on piece of steel on the bottom will go a log way towards protecting these. This is actually a bigger problem with the Yotas as the steel is a lot thinner than the Rovers. At any rate, it is simply mild steel and paint, no damage was done and now you can tell where there needs to be some additional protection. Pretty SOP damage for a weeks worth of wheeling...Looks much more dramatic than what it actually is.

[Brad]

I'm not freaked out by any means. I was expecting this to happen. Esp without a lift. Chicks dig scars. :thumb:

[Brody]

Well, if they are crawling around under your rig, too, then there is even more to like...

[Rob]

Chicks dig scars

:lmao: How are they with rock rash?

Brad, you're supposed to drive over the rocks, not through them! :)

[Patrolman]

Looks like the Rover took a licking and kept on ticking. :) Like most said, now you know what to upgrade and protect!

[Volcom]

Where's the damage hahahahaha. My camera's SD card couldn't hold enough pictures for all the scrapes, dents & dings I've done to my rigs over the last 4 years. The couple scrapes I'm most proud of are on the tops of my sliders after driving my 4runner on it's side through a boulder field.

[Funrover]

Wow, you have a lot of items on your Rover that I don't hahahahaha.

[MelloYello]

Good for you! Drive it like you own it!

[Stephen]

Umm, Brad, it looks like it is beyond repair. I'll take it off your hands for you. ;)




I saw the corner of your door the other day, makes you look hardcore! Good job. :thumb:

[Andrew]

Biggest thing there to me is the gas tank. The rest - oh well. But a dent in a gas tank can rob you of some serious fuel capacity which would suck.

[Brad]

Thanks Stephen! I will consider that! :D

The tank is plastic, that itty bitty center shield is worthless. All that fat ass and they cover half the tank. :erm:

[Brody]

The tank is located better than the ones on the Jeep XJs. These seem to be designed so that if you manage to drive over a large rock with the rear axle/tires, the very first thing that is going to hit, way before the receiver hitch or bumper, is the plastic gas tank. Thing should have a target painted on it...

[MelloYello]

I know a guy who could build you the best gas tank skid plate ever...


...Pete :thumb:

[Brody]

Thanks Keith!

What I would do, Brad, is avoid the bolt on differential protectors that many of the Rover places sell. They don't seem to stay on as well as advertised. If you do anything for the diffs, simply adding a steel plate on the bottom for additional protection should do it, or doing a little more and doing a semi wrap steel plate like this picture of the TG small diff armor ($16). Keep in mind that the generic Trail Gear, All Pro, Ballistic Fab, BudBilt, or Sky Mfg Yota full diff armor can be easily modified to fit the Rover diffs. Most of these are beefy and most of them are around $30, much cheaper than I can fab one from scratch.

I believe that I may have already said this, but the gas tank is the biggie. Your diffs and axle housings are a lot stouter than the Yotas to begin with. A split tank is a bad day...I twice drove a long way to an auto store and/or home after trashing a gas tank. Once I had to use a rag dipped in gas over my carb, wetting it down with gas from a container. The second time, I rigged my windshield washer up so that it juiced gas onto a rag over the carb. Neither resulted in the best running engine, but it got me back to pavement. After the second time, all my gas tanks have had armor...